By now, most of the computing world is well-versed on the importance of virtualization and VMware. Saving money by using virtual machines (VMs) is reason enough to go virtual; the amount of energy saved is impressive. Now that it has been proven to work well, where is virtualization headed to next?
Customers who download eG Innovations say that they have found the next step with the eG VM Monitor. Monitoring VMs is as complex as keeping an eye on physical servers. With the eG VM Monitor, the performance of the VM kernel can be monitored and you receive a full view of a vSphere/ESX server. Agentless monitoring is utilized for ESXi VMware servers, while an agent is used for ESX servers. The guest virtual machines are monitored to discern where the resources are going. Baselines are automatically provided so that deviations are discovered.
Administrators do not have to manually set the thresholds for the metrics; rather, for availability metrics or response time metrics, the administrator can set thresholds based upon expectations. Metrics can also be set based on time. False alarms are less likely because of the flexible alarm definitions.
Once you download eG Innovations, you can expect to have answers to your infrastructure questions. You can experience virtual desktop monitoring and find out how many desktops are powered on at the same time on the ESX Server, or which users are logged on and when their login occurred.
By monitoring your vSphere/ESX host, you can determine how much free space is left on each disk partition. You can understand which network interfaces have the highest amount of traffic, as well as which of the storage devices have high activity levels.
If excessive queuing for disk access is occurring on a guest OS, you can find out. Moreover, if undue paging or memory thrashing is happening in a guest virtual machine, you will find out once you download eG Innovations.