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SolarWinds IT Management Glossary

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What is vSphere Management

The vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) allows administrators and developers to run scripts and agents to manage ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server systems. vMA is a virtual machine that includes prepackaged software, a logging component, and an authentication component that supports non-interactive login. The vSphere Management Assistant includes management of multiple VMware vSphere, Virtual Center, ESX and ESXi hosts with a single sign-on to multiple hosts using the same credentials, allowing you to browse through inventory hierarchies on Virtual Center, view topological data for any managed server, charts for virtual machines, datastores and resource configurations. Note: All trademarks, such as VMware® and vSphere® are property of their respective owners.

SolarWinds FREE Tools Related to vSphere Management

VM Console

What do you do when a virtual machine is running amuck—or not running at all—and you just want to restart it without slogging through vCenter™ or vSphere™? With our free VM Console you can bounce that blue-screened troublemaker, track up/down status, take snapshots of all your VMs, and more!

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VM Monitor

Track virtualization health at-a-glance with X-ray vision into your ESX Servers! Our free VM Monitor continuously monitors a VMware ESX Server and its virtual machines and delivers detailed virtual machine health statistics including VM name, guest OS, and VM state, as well as processor, memory, and network usage.

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SolarWinds Products Related to vSphere Management

Virtualization Manager

Virtualization Manager makes it easy to manage all the aspects of your virtual infrastructure by providing the tools to control VM sprawl, eliminate bottlenecks, optimize performance, track configuration changes, manage capacity, and track and showback departmental and business unit usage and costs. Learn More »