screenComplete Visibility. Dynamic Control.

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.



    Overview Solution Benefits Specifics

vmware readySupported Platforms

NMS supports the following platforms:

  • VMware VSphere 4
  • VMware Infrastructure 3.0
  • VMware ESXi (3.5.x)
  • VMware ESX 3.x
  • VMware ESX 2.5.x

Metrics

With NMS solution, administrators can monitor these metrics:

 

ESX
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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