Virtual Machine Performance Management
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Gain insight into virtual server performance with intuitive and comprehensive dashboards
SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager (VMAN) dashboards are built to show virtual server performance for VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. VMAN is designed to provide environment views capable of automatically mapping virtual machines (VMs) to their underlying host, storage, and related objects, allowing you to quickly see virtual server performance correlations.
The detailed alerts in VMAN can also give you hypervisor-specific conditions, thresholds, and custom recommendations to fix problems plus status alerts about your physical host to let you analyze overall hardware health.
Eliminate bottlenecks with storage I/O performance metrics and alerts
Storage I/O performance is a common cause of bottlenecks in vSphere, AHV, and Hyper-V environments. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is designed to give you a comprehensive view of all shared storage via a single pane of glass.
The customizable dashboards built in VMAN can provide critical storage metrics, such as read/write, IOPs, throughput, and more. Storage contention issues can also be viewed at cluster, host, and virtual machine levels, so you can address them at the right time to better avoid application performance issues.
Use past performance analysis to speed up troubleshooting
The virtualization dependency mapping feature in VMAN is designed to provide a visual overview of related objects, helping streamline your virtual server monitoring.
Additionally, the time travel feature in SolarWinds VMAN can offer a historical account of configuration data and infrastructure relationships to help you identify what dependencies existed at a specific time in your virtual server environment, such as VMs belonging to a host seven days ago. This data can be used to answer the “What changed?” question all IT pros regularly face.
Use virtual server monitoring recommendations to manage and optimize virtual resources
The out-of-the-box virtual server monitoring tools in VMAN are built to offer optimization strategies for managing your virtual resources overall. You can use the integrated Sprawl Dashboard, Recommendations, and Capacity Planning tools to evaluate VM usage, rebalance allocation, pinpoint sprawl, and eliminate rogue VMs.
The active recommendations provided by VMAN can also help you resolve VM issues as they occur, while predictive recommendations use historical trends to help anticipate and prepare for upcoming virtual server performance and capacity issues.
Investigate virtual server performance issues with precision virtual machine monitoring tools
SolarWinds PerfStack™ and AppStack™ dashboards are also available for use with VMAN virtual machine monitoring tools to help you drill down deeper into performance issues. PerfStack compares and analyzes multiple metrics across several products at once to provide a visual, historical timeline. AppStack graphically represents monitored nodes in a custom map, allowing for quick visual scans of VM statuses, plus one-click drill-down into node details. Combining these tools can help provide more comprehensive virtual machine performance management.
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Virtual machine performance management involves gaining visibility into the inner workings of your VM environment to isolate, solve, and proactively prevent future virtual server performance issues.
Virtualization is a scalable computing solution to help reduce IT costs, increase productivity and agility, and enable more automated processes. However, managing virtual machines can come with challenges. A single virtual server environment can contain numerous virtual machines operating simultaneously on a single computer. With so many moving parts, how can you pinpoint what’s causing virtual machine performance issues? Virtual machine performance management is a strategy used to gather health and status metrics from across your virtual instances.
Virtual machine performance management involves gaining visibility into the inner workings of your VM environment to isolate, solve, and proactively prevent future virtual server performance issues.
Virtualization is a scalable computing solution to help reduce IT costs, increase productivity and agility, and enable more automated processes. However, managing virtual machines can come with challenges. A single virtual server environment can contain numerous virtual machines operating simultaneously on a single computer. With so many moving parts, how can you pinpoint what’s causing virtual machine performance issues? Virtual machine performance management is a strategy used to gather health and status metrics from across your virtual instances.
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