Hello! Josh Stephens here, Head Geek at
SolarWinds. Orion Application Performance Monitor, or APM, is a brand new
application we have available to monitor all of your application
infrastructure. One of the coolest features in Orion APM is its ability to monitor
the virtualized infrastructure. Let’s take a look today and I’ll show you how
to monitor all of your virtual infrastructure within APM.Once you log in to APM, you'll notice
there are several different views and dashboards to choose from. Each of these
will have information about your virtual infrastructure. Here on the summary
page, you’ll see I have an all nodes list, and within there, I have all the
different VMware servers that I’m managing. I can simply click on one of those
lists to expand it, and then drill all the way down on an ESX server in my
environment. On the details view, for my VMware server, I have real time data
represented in the gauges, and I’ve also got data represented in charts and
graphs to show me over time how the trends have changed, and how my system is
performing. Now I can also click on the top ten list to see more information
about many different types of performance metrics in my network, including my
virtual infrastructure.
If I scroll down to the bottom, you’ll
see that I’m monitoring each of my processes by the amount of virtual memory
they’re using, and you can see which processes they are using the most, and
either hover for more information, or of course, drill down here to a very
detailed view of those components.
You’ll also see there’s a new
virtualization tab. This tab is a summary of the overall health for all of the
different virtual infrastructure components in my environment. I rolled that
data up for you all the way to the vCenter level, the datacenter level, the
cluster level, the individual ESX servers, and of course the VMs or virtualized
application servers there. You can drill down in any level in this scheme to be
able to see health and performance metrics about that level. So, of course,
here I’m looking at the performance metrics for the entire cluster, and the
different servers in that cluster. I can again drill down there to see specific
details, the components that make up the VMware servers in the cluster itself.
Because virtualization is a main feature
in Orion APM, it’s also available in your Alerts, it’s available within your
Message Center. And you can of course run reports for your virtual
infrastructure to see the health over time.
Here you see a report of the percentage
CPU use by each VM in my environment over the last seven days. These reports
are easy to export via PDF, so you can send them over to your boss, or have
them even automatically email to you every single week.
Now that you’ve seen how easy monitoring
virtualization is in Orion APM, it’s time to check it out for yourself.
Download it today from SolarWinds.com, you can try it out for free for thirty
days, have it up and running in under an hour.