Data Center Monitoring

Whether your data center consists of a few physical servers and storage arrays or thousands of virtual machines, virtual switches, and multi-vendor storage, you need complete and scalable data center monitoring tools that deliver.

• Unified visibility across the compute, storage, network, and applications elements of your data center
• Real-time performance management of your physical and virtual infrastructure
• Out-of-the-box reporting on data center health, performance, and storage capacity
• Automated configuration and change management for your multi-vendor network devices
• Health and performance monitoring of critical data center switches with Network Insight^™ for Cisco Nexus
• A single platform to manage your end-to-end data center infrastructure

Monitor, diagnose, and manage a host of different data center network technologies including Fibre Channel and Ethernet connectivity, proprietary architectures such as Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS), and virtual switching and servers with SolarWinds^® Network Performance Monitor (NPM).

• Monitor the health and performance of your data center’s physical and virtual network infrastructure
• Monitor Cisco Nexus 1000v virtual switch with NPM and track network traffic through the switch with NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
• Analyze data center network traffic patterns and bandwidth consumption
• Monitor Fiber Channel switches and VSAN data to quickly identify storage networking issues
• Intelligently view the status of your core IT services or data center by dynamically grouping related systems and devices
• Change, back up, and monitor the network configurations of your data center infrastructure
• Help ensure service availability with health and performance monitoring of critical data center switches with Network Insight for Cisco Nexus, a feature of Network Performance Monitor and Network Configuration Manager
• Monitor the virtual interface cards, fabric interconnects, chassis, and blade servers in your Cisco Unified Computing System
• Investigate fault, performance, and applications issues from a single intuitive web console

Gain end-to-end visibility and control over your physical and virtual compute infrastructure with a consolidated view into server performance, along with VMware cluster, host, and virtual machine performance with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager.

• Monitor, alert, and report on the health and performance of all the physical and virtual servers in your data center
• Simplify data center consolidation by performing physical and virtual server consolidation
• Control VM sprawl 
• Track VM availability across your virtual infrastructure with built-in alerting and instant notification of VM-related issues
• Perform complete file analysis and data classification
• Monitor VMware servers (vSphere, ESX, ESXi) and automatically track VM performance through vCenter

Gain visibility into your multi-vendor storage environment usage. Help ensure that your storage infrastructure is performing and identify over-allocated or wasted storage to reduce costs. Perform capacity forecasting and planning to get a clear view of impending issues and required investments with SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor.

• Combine storage monitoring, reporting, alerting, and forecasting across your multi-vendor storage stack
• Manage DAS, NAS, and SAN with capacity reporting, monitoring, management, planning, and analysis
• Get a complete view into the performance of your IT infrastructure with end-to-end mapping of your applications and logical connections to the physical infrastructure
• Automate the collection and presentation of storage forecasting data and track performance over time to identify hot spots, peak hours, and potential outages

Bring powerful alerting and reporting capabilities to your data center monitoring, and ensure your physical and virtual server-based applications achieve peak performance. Automatically discover the enterprise applications that reside in your data center with ease, and deliver the visibility you need into application performance and the underlying operating systems and servers they run on.

• Monitor the responsiveness and availability of critical websites and web applications from the end-user perspective
• Monitor, alert, and report on the health and performance of your data center applications and servers
• Track application availability across your physical and virtual infrastructure with built-in alerting and instant notification of issues
• Gain deep visibility into the physical and virtual platforms that are hosting applications
• Simulate and measure Quality of Experience (QoE) for popular applications