The integrated virtual infrastructure monitor built into SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor enables you to keep an eye on your entire VMware virtual infrastructure from vCenter to the data center to clusters to ESX hosts to VMs—all from a single web console.

• Monitor your entire VMware® virtual infrastructure from vCenter™, to the data center, to clusters to ESX hosts, and to virtual machines (VMs), all from a single web console
• Ensure your virtualized applications are performing just like they would on physical hardware
• Automatically discover, identify, and monitor new virtual machines and applications
• Leverage out-of-the-box reports and 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 SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Remember when you could actually see and touch what you were managing in your data center? Back when a server was a physical box sitting in a rack rather than an amorphous virtual machine? Today your data center is more like something right out of The Matrix. That’s why we’ve designed SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to monitor virtualized servers and applications, from the datacenter to the virtual machine. Using the integrated virtual infrastructure monitor, you’ll gain deep visibility into your virtualized environments and applications so you can ensure that application performance helps—not hinders—your virtualization projects.

Server & Application Monitor communicates directly with the VMware API to determine how the host servers are performing and to gauge the health of individual virtual machines and applications. Information is rolled up at each of the hierarchical layers (VM-> Hosts -> Clusters -> Data Centers-> vCenters) so you can quickly determine if your virtualized applications are performing poorly.

By monitoring specific virtual resources, Server & Application Monitor can alert you to a virtual machine or application that is using excessive CPU resources or is approaching its allocated memory limit. This enables you to ensure that applications are performing well and that the virtual and physical resources on the server are optimized. Virtual infrastructure monitoring has never been more powerful.

Server & Application Monitor monitors end-user experiences against web applications to check and verify the response time of HTML pages and monitors any port on the network. This enables you to monitor end-user experience response time to ensure that end users are not impacted when applications move from physical servers to virtual ones. Server & Application Monitor recognizes virtual machines seamlessly, delivering application performance monitoring for business-critical services, including Microsoft® Exchange, Lotus® Notes, Java® applications, Apache®, Active Directory®, Microsoft IIS, SQL Server, and much more.

Server & Application Monitor 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.

Server & Application Monitor’s native alerting and reporting capabilities seamlessly extend to virtual infrastructure and applications. With just a few clicks, you can set up alert thresholds for virtual machine hosts and vCenters, such as notification when memory usage approaches its maximum allocation. Additionally, you can easily create custom reports that detail virtual infrastructure activity over any period of time. These reports serve as valuable resources for future infrastructure changes, or measuring virtualization efficiency.

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