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NMS for VMware

With the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS) for VMware, organizations can harness a comprehensive solution for monitoring and optimizing performance in VMware environments.

Plus, with NMS, organizations can monitor and manage all the operating systems and business applications that run in this virtualized environment—and get insights into the performance end users experience from these business applications.

NMS for VMware

OverviewSolutionBenefitsSpecifics

The NMS for VMware overview dynamic view using the Unified Monitoring Portal. All Portlets are dynamic and adjust as the VMware environment changes.

vmware readySupported Platforms

NMS supports the following platforms:

  • Java version 1.4.2 - 1.6.x.
  • VMware VirtualCenter 2.0.x, 2.5.x and 4.x.x (VC 1.0 not supported)
  • VMware ESX 3, ESXi 3
  • VMware ESX server 3.0.x, 3.5.x
  • VMware ESXi server 3.5.x
  • VMware ESXi server 4.x.x
  • vSphere 4.0 (ESX4, ESXi4, VC4)

Metrics

With NMS solution, administrators can monitor these metrics:

 

ESX
Host

VM

 

ESX
Host

VM

SYSTEM

   

MEMORY (cont.)

   

Running state

tick  

Memory swapped target

  tick

Is in maintenance mode

tick  

Memory usage

tick tick

Power state

  tick

Memory zero (% of memory size)

tick tick

Guest operating system name

  tick

Memory used by vmkernal (% of mem.size)

tick  

Guest heartbeat status

  tick

 

   

Disk capacity of datastore (GB)

tick  

NETWORK

   

Disk free in datastore (GB)

tick  

Network data receive rate

tick tick

Disk free in datastore (in % of Capacity)

tick  

Network data transmit rate

tick tick

Physical memory size in MB

tick  

Network packets transmitted

tick tick

Memory size in MB

  tick

Network packets received

tick  

Amount of memory guaranteed (MB)

  tick

 

   

Guest memory usage (in % of mem.)

  tick

DISK

   

Host memory usage (in % of mem.)

  tick

Disk bus resets

tick tick

Memory not to exceed limit

  tick

Disk commands abort

tick tick

Number virtual CPUs

  tick

Disk commands issued

tick tick

Overall CPU usage

  tick

Disk read rate

tick tick

Amount of CPU guaranteed (in MHZ)

  tick

Disk read requests

tick tick

CPU not to exceed limit

  tick

Disk write rate

tick tick

Resource CPU usage in MHz

tick  

Disk write requests

tick tick

Number of CPU cores

tick  

 

   

CPU speed per core in MHZ

tick  

EVENTS

   

Number of CPU packages

tick  

Error

tick tick

Number of CPU threads

tick  

Warning

tick tick

Overall alarm status

tick  

Information

tick tick

Heartbeats

  tick

User

tick tick

Total time

tick tick

 

   

 

   

CPU

   

MEMORY

   

CPU used (% of available)

tick tick

Memory active (% of mem. size)

tick tick

CPU usage (average/rate)

tick tick

Memory consumed (% of mem. size)

tick tick

CPU usage in MHz (% of limit)

tick tick

Memory granted (% of mem. size)

tick tick

CPU idle time (% of available)

tick  

Memory balloon (% of mem. size)

  tick

CPU reserved capacity

tick  

Memory balloon target (% of mem. size)

  tick

CPU extra (% of available)

  tick

Memory heap (% of mem. size)

tick  

CPU guaranteed (% of available)

  tick

Memory heap free (% of mem. size)

tick  

CPU ready (% of available)

  tick

Memory overhead (% of mem. size)

tick tick

CPU wait (% of available)

  tick

Memory reserved (% of mem. size)

tick  

 

   

Memory unreserved (% of mem. size)

tick  

RESERVED CPU

   

Memory shared (% of mem. size)

tick tick

CPU Active average over 1/5/15 min.

tick tick

Memory shared common (% of mem. size)

tick  

CPU Active peak over 1/5/15 min.

tick tick

Memory state

tick  

CPU Refused average over 1/5/15 min.

tick tick

Memory swap in

tick tick

CPU Running average over 1/5/15 min.

tick tick

Memory swap out

tick tick

CPU Running peak over 1/5/15 min.

tick tick

Memory swap used (% of mem. size)

tick tick

CPU Sample Count

tick tick

 

   

CPU Sample Period

tick tick
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The Buzz...

"As Casual Male evolves its IT service delivery platforms, we need a solution that will grow with us. We initially selected Nimsoft because of its robust and easy-to-deploy support of our virtualized VMware infrastructure."

Now as we consider new applications and services, we have to look at outsourced options such as SaaS and cloud, and it's great to know that with the Nimsoft Unified Monitoring strategy, IT can enable these choices for the business without any new investment in monitoring products"

Dave Potter, Director of IT Infrastructure, Casual Male

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