- Monitor your entire VMware® virtual infrastructure, from vCenter™, to the data center, to cluster, to ESX hosts, to VMs—all from a single Web console
- Ensure your Cisco® Nexus 1000V switches and virtualized applications are performing just like they would on physical hardware
- Track VM availability & performance metrics, including CPU & memory utilization, disk usage, & network bandwidth
- Automatically discover, identify, & monitor new virtual machines added to any VMware server
- Leverage out-of-the-box VM reports & maintain VM performance using built-in alerting to receive instant notification of VM-related issues
- Leverage your existing vCenter thresholds and view real-time status in Orion
- Get robust VMware monitoring that is built into Orion NPM at no additional charge
Virtualization has transformed data centers around the world. But network engineers are finding that virtualized resources impact the network in unique and challenging ways. That’s why we’ve designed Orion NPM to monitor virtualization comprehensively, from the data center, to the virtual machine, to the underlying network infrastructure. With Orion NPM’s integrated virtual infrastructure monitoring capabilities, you’ll gain deep visibility into your virtualized environments so you can ensure network performance helps, not hinders, your virtualization projects.
VMware Monitoring
Orion NPM communicates directly with VMware infrastructure to determine how the host servers are performing and to gauge the health of individual virtual machines. Information is rolled up at each of the hierarchical layers (vCenter-> Data Center -> Clusters -> Hosts -> VMs), so you can quickly determine if your virtualized infrastructure is performing poorly. You’ll gain insight into statistics such as CPU and memory utilization, disk usage, guest OS, network usage, effective CPU load, and more—making it easy to ensure that applications are performing well and that the virtual and physical resources on the server are optimized.
Native Support for Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtualized Switches
The Cisco Nexus 1000V switches deliver VN-Link services to virtual machines hosted on a physical server. They take advantage of VMware’s framework, providing tight integration between network and server and creating a robust network environment in your data center. If managing a virtual switch within the virtualized data center environment seems like a new and potentially complex task, check out Orion NPM’s native support for the Nexus 1000V to see how we can help you overcome this challenge. With Orion NPM, you can manage these switches in precisely the same manner as a physical switch — simply and affordably.
VM Monitoring Using Orion Application Performance Monitor
It’s easy to extend Orion NPM’s VM monitoring features as well as to achieve monitoring for applications and servers. Simply add Orion Application Performance Monitor (APM).
Orion APM monitors end-user experiences against Web applications to check and verify the response time of HTML pages and also monitors any port on the network. Many network engineers use end-user experience response time monitoring to ensure that end users are not impacted when applications move from physical to virtual servers. Orion APM recognizes virtual machines seamlessly, delivering application performance monitoring for business-critical services, including Microsoft® Exchange, Lotus® Notes, SAP®, Apache®, Active Directory®, Microsoft IIS, SQL Server®, and much more.
Virtual Machine Auto-Summary
Orion NPM automatically discovers new virtual machines added to any VMware host server or updated during vMotion™. When virtual resources are constantly moving, it is critical to have near real-time information about how resources are allocated to determine the best possible configuration. In addition to detailed virtual machine statistics, Orion NPM also leverages Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) to analyze the traffic flowing to or from any virtual machine communicating on the network, providing visibility into how network traffic is behaving
Many network engineers use end-user experience response time monitoring to ensure that end users are not impacted when applications move from physical servers to virtual ones. Orion APM recognizes virtual machines seamlessly, delivering application performance monitoring for business-critical services, including Microsoft® Exchange, Lotus® Notes, SAP®, Apache®, Active Directory®, Microsoft IIS, SQL Server, and much more.
Virtualization Alerting and Reporting
Orion NPM’s native alerting and reporting capabilities seamlessly extend to your virtual infrastructure. With just a few clicks, alert thresholds can be set up for virtual machines, clusters, and data centers. For example, you can receive a notification when memory usage approaches its maximum allocation. Additionally, custom reports can easily be created to detail virtual infrastructure activity over any period of time. These reports serve as valuable resources for capacity planning, future infrastructure changes, or measuring virtualization efficiency.