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VMware Performance Monitoring, Reporting, and Analysis – Monitor The Full Virtual Stack

Goliath Technologies’ MonitorIT for VMware ESX/ESXi ships today with complete support for monitoring the entire VMware virtual environment, including metrics from the hypervisor, directly from the virtual machines via an agent and the associated physical infrastructure. This is distinctly different than other monitoring solutions which are likely to be limited to only those metrics that are provided by the hypervisor and don’t include granular data about the virtual machines, applications or the physical environment.

Eliminate Blind Spots and False Positives Using One Product To Monitor All Layers of the Virtual Stack

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Comprehensive Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring

  • Agentless Monitoring Leveraging Hypervisors APIs
  • “Intelligent Agents” for Deep Application Level Data and Enhanced Auto Remediation
  • vCenter Plug-in. Click Here to view
  • Physical Infrastructure:
    • Servers
    • Networks
    • Storage
    • Application

Easy to Use: “MonitorIT in Minutes”

  • Auto Discovery of Virtual and Physical Infrastructure
  • Out-of-the-Box Monitoring Rules – No Programming
  • “Click Install” of “Intelligent Agents”
  • Multiple Hypervisors – One Solution

Real Time Monitoring

  • Key Performance Metrics:
    • Resource Consumption and Workload Data for Hosts, Clusters and Datastores
    • Storage
    • Applications
  • Dashboards with “click” Drill Down
  • Advanced Alerting and Root Cause

Enterprise Functionality

  • Management Reporting
  • Physical and Virtual Environments
  • Automated Remediation and Recovery
  • Central Console for:
    • Servers
    • Applications
    • Storage
    • Networks
    • Desktops
    • Databases
  • Event Correlation and Ticket Management
  • Remote Management

Goliath Technologies’ MonitorIT is a comprehensive virtual monitoring solution that truly reduces the risk of managing a dynamic virtual environment.

A comprehensive solution must have the following features:

Full Virtual Stack Monitoring

MonitorIT ships today with complete support for monitoring the entire virtual environment, including metrics from the hypervisor, directly from the virtual machines via an agent, and the associated physical infrastructure. This is distinctly different from other monitoring solutions, as they are likely to be limited to only those metrics provided by the hypervisor, which don’t include granular data about the virtual machines, their applications, or the physical environment. MonitorIT provides “Comprehensive monitoring of the virtual infrastructure”

Capture Hypervisor Metrics from Multiple Hypervisors with One Solution

IT Administrators leveraging a combination of Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware vSphere in their environment can leverage MonitorIT to monitor all hypervisors from a single dashboard. No separate products or modules required to monitor each hypervisor! Goliath Technologies’ MonitorIT leverages the VMware ESX/ESXi Hypervisor APIs to obtain and monitor various metrics for the host as well as the virtual machines, capturing detailed information about the entire VMware virtual infrastructure. By leveraging VMware ESX/ESXi API integration, MonitorIT has the flexibility to provide CPU, memory, and disk utilization and availability for each virtual machine without deploying agents.

Agent and Agentless Capability

Providing the IT user with ultimate flexibility, visibility, and control, MonitorIT is both agent based for monitoring Windows virtual machines, Linux & Unix virtual machines; and agentless, via SNMP, Syslog messages, and hypervisor integration to VMware vSphere ESX & ESXi.

Intelligent Agents

The “Intelligent Agent” has several unique features that make it worthy of being considered intelligent.

  1. Easy to deploy and configure relative to most agents.
  2. It is able to capture deep diagnostic metrics with little resource utilization, typically only 0.1% CPU / <16MB of Memory / 1MB Footprint.
  3. The “master agent” capability negates the need to distribute servers at remote locations. Any agent can be designated a “master agent” at a remote site, behind a firewall to monitor any SNMP or Syslog enabled device and VMware or Citrix Virtual Machines, while negating the requirement to deploy an additional monitoring server to each location.

Master Agent Capability
The “master agent” feature is a subset of the overall Intelligent Agent functionality. This capability is incredibly powerful because it allows the product to monitor and manage remote locations quickly and easily. Any agent can be designated as a “master agent” at a remote site, behind a firewall, and configured to proactively reach out to the central MonitorIT server if a condition is met and triggers an alert. There is no need to deploy a separate server at a remote location to monitor any Syslog, SNMP enabled device, and VMware or Citrix virtual hosts and virtual machines. The “master agent” still retains the capability to initiate automatic fix actions as with any other agent.

Intelligent Agent Video The Master Agent Video

Remote Site Monitoring

Many distributed enterprises and service providers face challenges in monitoring the virtual environment outside of their core infrastructure. In order to monitor their Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual hosts remotely, administrators often deploy secondary instances of their monitoring solutions, which complicates management or increases cost because proxies or secondary servers are required. With “Master Agent functionality,” the IT professional can designate any agent at a remote site a master agent and it will monitor remote hypervisors and surrounding infrastructure, sending exception based alerts through the firewall when predetermined thresholds are breached.

VMware vCenter Integration

The MonitorIT UI integrates with VMware vCenter via a tab plug-in so that the vCenter console can be leveraged for seamless operation. This gives an administrator the ability to manage not just VMware ESX/ESXi but also the physical infrastructure including networks, physical servers, applications, desktops and storage all from the vCenter console.

Physical Infrastructure

The virtual infrastructure is not a silo in and of itself; total availability and performance can be severely impacted by the supporting architecture which often include physical servers, network devices, and storage. As a complete and comprehensive monitoring solution, MonitorIT has the ability to monitor all of the components in a modern IT infrastructure from a single console. MonitorIT has support for monitoring all Windows Operating Systems, and deep monitoring of associated Windows applications, including Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, IIS, and third-party applications such as Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. MonitorIT also has support for monitoring all Linux/Unix variations, from RedHat to Solaris, including HP-UX and IBM AIX. Finally, MonitorIT monitors the underlying network and storage infrastructure.

Enterprise Reporting and Trend Analysis

MonitorIT also provides a comprehensive UI console with dynamic dashboards for reporting on resource utilization, alerting status, and graph based metrics with historical trending that are easy to customize. These dashboards reports provide visibility into your virtual hosts, virtual machines, storage, and any physical servers in your environment. In addition, administrators can leverage out of the box reports to analyze overall environment health and conditions, perform capacity planning around memory and storage utilization, security reporting, and even up-time & chargeback data. MonitorIT also integrates basic network device monitoring and reporting via SNMP Traps and Queries, Syslog messages, and proactive PING, HTTP, and other IP service checks to determine performance over time.

Videos

MonitorIT for your VMware Environment

MonitorIT is the only comprehensive VMware monitoring product on the market. MonitorIT provides Intelligent Agent and agentless flexibility to comprehensively monitor the virtual environment, which includes the supporting physical infrastructure, all from a single interface.
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MonitorIT in Minutes – VMware vSphere

See how easy it is to configure MonitorIT to agentlessly monitor VMware vSphere

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What we Monitor

In this brief video, we’ll talk about the flexibility and comprehensiveness of MonitorIT that allows a user to monitor the entire IT infrastructure from one central console.
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Remote Site Monitoring with Master Agent Capability

The “Master Agent” feature is a subset of the overall Intelligent Agent functionality. In this video, we explain how the “Master Agent” monitors and manages remote locations quickly and easily.
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MonitorIT for VDI (Monitoring Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop)

MonitorIT has built-in support for VDI technologies such as XenApp/Desktop. In this brief video, we’ll discuss the common challenges we hear and how you can leverage MonitorIT to manage your VDI deployment.
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FAQs

Product Functionality

How is MonitorIT installed into my virtual environment?

Very simple – there are built in wizards.

How does MonitorIT collect information from my virtual environments?

MonitorIT can leverage a few different mechanisms to collect data. For virtual hosts, we have developed integration to VMware and Citrix, leveraging the APIs to VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer to agentlessly collect information on the Host, VM Inventory, and Storage. Additionally, you can also install our Intelligent Agents to collect application level data on the VM’s and perform fix actions for automated remediation.

Can I monitor multiple hypervisors from the same MonitorIT server?

Yes, MonitorIT can support hybrid environments and monitor your Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere, or Hyper-V infrastructure through a single MonitorIT server and interface.

Do you have to put an agent on the host to monitor my VMware or Citrix environment?

No. Actually, MonitorIT leverages the APIs to the VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer hypervisors to agentlessly collect data on the Host, VM Inventory, and Storage.

Do I have to put an agent on every VM?

No. Our hypervisor integration provides agentless metrics on the health and performance of each VM including CPU, Memory Characteristics, Disk, and Processes. However, we do encourage customers to deploy our Intelligent Agents to critical systems for visibility into the performance of applications to eliminate false positives and blind spots.

Do I have to use XenCenter or vCenter to view my statistics in a virtual environment?

No. While we have included this capability out-of-box, we also give you the ability to use our native MonitorIT Web Interface. Alternatively, you can also view data collected by MonitorIT within any Enterprise Management Frameworks/Portals by sending information via SNMP.

Will I still receive information on VM’s I do not have agents deployed on if I’m using the host based licensing?

Yes. Agentlessly, we can collect data from each VM including CPU Utilization, CPU Readiness, Memory characteristics including consumption, ballooned, and shared/swapped, Storage, and Network Throughput.

Once I deploy agents, do I have to restart those machines?

No. One of the features of the Intelligent Agent is the fact that once an agent is deployed to a VM, that VM does not require a reboot.

Key Features and Why They Are Important

Remote Site Monitoring

Many distributed enterprises and service providers face challenges in monitoring the virtual environment outside of their core infrastructure. In order to monitor their Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual hosts remotely, administrators often deploy secondary instances of their monitoring solutions, which complicates management or increases cost because proxies or secondary servers are required. With “Master Agent functionality,” the IT professional can designate any agent at a remote site a master agent and it will monitor remote hypervisors and surrounding infrastructure, sending exception based alerts through the firewall when predetermined thresholds are breached.

Quick to Install & Configure

New installation & configurations wizards include:
  • Auto discovery of systems
  • Auto deployment of basic monitoring rules
  • One click agent install with no reboot necessary
  • Pre-configured MIT PAKs
  • Out-of-the-box reports

Flexible & Easy to Use

MonitorIT’s flexibility and ease of use is driven by:
  • Agent based and Agentless capability
  • Multi-tenant grouping and viewing
  • Custom reports
  • Custom monitoring rules
  • Ability to monitor physical and virtual environments

Enterprise Functionality

MonitorIT can be used cross-organizationally because of its:

  • Deep operating system and application visibility
  • Automated remediation
  • High scalability
  • Consolidated enterprise dashboards
  • Central console for entire infrastructure
  • Remote management
  • Ticketing system integration

Intelligent Agent

Provides data on would expect from an agent without the overhead

  • Push to deploy within minutes
  • No reboot necessary
  • Small footprint – 1MB in size
  • Low resource impact –0.1% CPU / <16MB of Memory
  • Automated remediation
  • Deep diagnostic data on applications

Comprehensive Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring

MonitorIT gives customers a very comprehensive look into virtual environments. Our approach consists of 4 main components:

  • Hypervisor Integration for metrics on Host, VM Inventory, and Storage
  • Intelligent Agents for application level metrics on VM’s
  • Management Console Plug-in to XenCenter & vCenter for easy access to information
  • Physical Infrastructure monitoring for visibility into the supporting infrastructure such as physical servers, databases, network devices, or datacenter components.

Low Total Cost of Ownership

No Implementation Services or Programming Necessary

  • $350.00 per VMware/XenServer Host (not per Socket or CPU)
  • $50.00 per Virtual Machine Agent
  • $125.00 per Physical Server Agent
  • $95.00 per Network Device (not per port element)
For Enterprise or Site License Pricing, call 855-GOLIATH

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