Virtual Server Monitoring Tool
Keep track of key VM metrics to maintain performance
Monitor your virtual infrastructure with server virtualization monitoring software
There are a lot of benefits of using virtual servers, but maximizing their potential depends on effectively monitoring the key metrics related to virtual infrastructure performance and health. With SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager (VMAN), monitoring those metrics and responding to issues is simple across both entire environments and individual virtual servers.
VMAN is built to monitor virtual clusters, hosts, datastores, or single virtual machines, meaning you can always gain a deep level of insight no matter what your virtual infrastructure looks like. VMAN’s virtual server monitoring tool tracks essential metrics including CPU utilization, memory usage, capacity usage, IOPS, network utilization, connection state, and latency. VMAN can also monitor specific actions within your environment, alerting you on activities like authentication failures, events, syslog, and changes in network configuration.
Optimize virtual machines with smart recommendations
When you choose your server virtualization monitoring tools, it’s important to pick options that offer extensive monitoring for individual virtual machines and for larger environments.
VMAN is a powerful virtual server monitoring solution designed to give you specific recommendations to help you resolve virtual machine issues as they occur (and before they have a chance to grow into more significant problems). Whether you’re using VMware, vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V environments, VMAN’s built-in, actionable intelligence can deliver detailed recommendations to alert you to specific problems with performance and give you the tools you need to resolve those problems. These recommendations may include multi-step fixes to help you achieve the optimal performance state.
Virtualization Manager can also give you predictive recommendations to proactively prevent problems from occurring in the first place. These recommendations use historical data to help ensure your VMs are prepared for patterned usage spikes, like those that occur at EOM, EOW, and EOD.
Integrate with PerfStack and Appstack to view virtual server performance more easily
When it comes to effective virtual server monitoring, it’s important to be able to dig deeper into problems when they occur. That’s easier than ever when you use SolarWinds Virtualization Manager because you can use the SolarWinds PerfStack™ and AppStack™ dashboards with your server virtualization monitoring tools, meaning you get access to more comprehensive views of your environment that put your VMs in context while also being able to drill down into any specific VM you want when an issue arises.
PerfStack makes it easy to compare and analyze metrics across multiple products at once, delivering a visual, historical timeline to help you understand those metrics over time and in relation to each other. This is particularly valuable for VMs that often share hardware and other resources with other elements of the environment.
AppStack also helps you make the most of your server virtualization monitoring software, as it provides a visual representation of your entire environment in the form of a custom map, letting you quickly scan for any issues with warning or critical statuses on your VMs. From there, you can use the single-click drill down feature to dive into node details. Utilizing these tools through VMAN not only increases your visibility, but also results in a more comprehensive server virtualization management software solution.
Track virtual server hardware health and other key metrics
While monitoring your virtual servers will always be essential, a comprehensive virtual server monitoring tool will go further, letting you monitor the performance of the hardware on which the virtual environment runs.
In addition to monitoring virtual servers running in the cloud (like VMware vSphere), SolarWinds Virtualization Manager supports monitoring virtual servers running on hardware. Monitor Cisco, Dell, F5, HP, and Juniper devices and get instant insight into device status through SNMP polling. For instance, see whether fans, power supply, and temperature are experiencing an Up, Warning, Critical, or Unknown status.
Configure alerts and thresholds based on specific needs
Virtualization Manager is built to offer customizable alerting to ensure you’re notified as soon as an error or issue occurs with your virtual server. With more than 40 virtualization alerts specifically designed to identify common issues in virtual environments, VMAN is built to alert on activities, network issues, VMware events, and more.
While you can always use VMAN’s out-of-the-box alert thresholds, it’s also possible to configure the alerts to fit your specific environment and create your own thresholds for each metric value, so you get the insight you need whenever suspicious changes in performance occur. If you want to go beyond simply adjusting the thresholds on existing alerts, VMAN also lets you create and customize your own alerts, using the ones available out-of-the-box as a baseline. You can also set notification actions for each specific alert to ensure your staff aren’t overwhelmed by an onslaught of email notification actions that don’t require their involvement. By configuring your alerts and thresholds, you can make sure your server virtualization monitoring software is working for you.
Improve VM performance with expansive virtual server monitoring
Virtualization Manager
Track key metrics, including hardware health metrics
Leverage smart recommendations to optimize VMs
Customize alerts to stay on top of potential issues
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