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Cloud
Maintaining service levels and availability now requires that you monitor and manage critical infrastructure in cloud environments in addition to your traditional data center. Nimsoft IT monitoring solutions include complete monitoring environments for those building a public or private cloud as well as specific monitoring elements for you to monitor your instances in cloud services such as Amazon, Rackspace, and Salesforce.
Public Cloud Monitoring
Monitor your critical instances in Salesforce, Amazon EC2/S3, Microsoft Windows Azure, as well as other public cloud and SaaS environments with the rest of your IT infrastructure.
Private Cloud Monitoring
Monitoring a private cloud poses new challenges beyond those involving existing data centers or newer virtualized environments. Nimsoft Monitor overcomes these challenges with a holistic view of physical, virtual, and application elements within private cloud environments.
For Cloud Providers
Nimsoft Monitor supports cloud service providers with a comprehensive, integration-ready environment that features zero-touch configuration and deployment, a light-weight, scalable architecture and flexible business terms aligned with cloud business models.
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FlexPod
Data Sheet: Nimsoft Monitor for FlexPod (PDF)
 Nimsoft Monitor for FlexPod provides you with intuitive, easy-to-read dashboards and reports. Complete Availability and Performance Monitoring of FlexPod for VMware Environments
Converged infrastructure stacks like FlexPod for VMware represent a complete data center in a box. A collaborative offering from NetApp and Cisco, FlexPod for VMware is a fully integrated and validated solution that features computing, networking, storage, virtualization, and infrastructure software components.
Nimsoft Monitor for FlexPod equips your organization with comprehensive, end-to-end performance and availability monitoring for all of the physical and virtual elements in this environment. The solution gives you the insights you need to quickly remediate problems when they occur—and to prevent outages from happening in the first place.
Nimsoft Monitor for FlexPod is a sophisticated and flexible solution that delivers:
- Automated component discovery as well as automated monitoring configuration, deployment, reporting, and display—capabilities essential for aligning with the “self-service” and automated nature of FlexPod for VMware implementations.
- Real-time views of the VMware virtual environment, correlated with monitoring of physical elements.
- Pre-configured alarm and alert settings, quality of service settings, dashboards, and more.
- Capabilities for proactive outage prevention–enabling your administrators to forecast trends, identify potential issues, and take steps to prevent them—before they affect users.
- Features that speed troubleshooting and minimize outage duration—offering intuitive dashboards, automatically generated list views, and automatically applied monitoring templates.
Using the solution’s advanced functionality, you can also:
- Ensure optimal service levels for applications hosted within the FlexPod environment, leveraging a complete view of underlying infrastructure as well as application performance.
- Better track and demonstrate the business value delivered from the FlexPod environment with usage metering.
Key Features
Complete FlexPod Coverage
The solution offers extensive monitoring coverage of these FlexPod components:
- Virtualization elements, including VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter
- Cisco Unified Computing System and Cisco Nexus family switches
- NetApp FAS
Extensive Monitoring of the Physical Infrastructure
Nimsoft Monitor offers comprehensive historical operation and environmental status of physical elements, including:
- Fans and fan modules
- Power supply units
- Chassis modules
- Fabric interconnects
- IO module
The solution also offers basic environmental monitoring of an array of additional elements, including:
- Blade interfaces
- Processors
- Memory arrays
- Storage units
- Storage configurations
Unified View of the Broader Data Center and the Cloud
Nimsoft Monitor gives you a unified, single console that enables you to track the FlexPod environment, as well as these systems and services:
- Enterprise applications
- Web application environments
- Database applications
- Public cloud environments
- Other converged infrastructure stacks like Vblock
In addition, Nimsoft Monitor offers the APIs and built-in gateways that enable efficient integration with data center tools and other systems and services.
Sophisticated Monitoring Automation
Nimsoft Monitor offers a host of capabilities that significantly streamline monitoring administration:
- Automatically discovers physical and virtual elements.
- Automatically configures and deploys monitoring based on flexible templates and automated configuration settings.
- Automatically displays timely, accurate monitoring data.
- Automatically adjusts monitoring to physical and virtual environment changes.
Extensive, Intuitive Usage and Service Level Insights
The solution offers a host of capabilities for turning monitoring data into actionable insights:
- Tracking whether elements are over or under subscribed.
- Granular usage metering that allows to understand infrastructure consumption by clients or groups.
- Business service and SLA monitoring.
Benefits
The Power of a Unified View of FlexPod Environments
- Quickly identify problems across FlexPod deployments and the wider data center for rapid outage resolution.
- Improve SLA compliance with predictive monitoring and real time, well correlated alerts that prevent downtime and reduce outage duration.
- Eliminate the overhead and expense of manual monitoring configuration and deployment.
- Turn performance and availability information into a dollars and cents conversation.
- Optimize FlexPod resource allocation to make the best use of your IT investments.
- Streamline monitoring administration with a single view and tool set.
Platform Features
Agent-optional coverage
Easily monitor local or remote environments. More
Alarm Console
See, assign and close alarms. Fast. More
Alarm Database
Accelerate problem resolution. More
APIs and SDKs
Tailor the solution to meet your unique business requirements. More
Automatic Discovery & Deployment
Keep informed of changes to your infrastructure. More
Flexible Pricing & Licensing
Works with your budget, and your business. More
Gateways and 3rd Party Integration
Integrate all of your IT monitoring tools with ease. More
ITIL Compatible
Best-practices. Built-in.More
Message Bus
Rest assured that your solution is future ready. More
Multi-Tenant
Scale your services efficiently and economically. More
Nimsoft for iPhone
Unified IT monitoring, now in your pocket. More
On-Premise, or On-Demand
Flexibility to suit your business. More
Performance Management Database
Spot trends before they become problems. More
Security
Keep private data private. More
Service Level Management
Set, meet and exceed your SLAs. More
Usage-Based Metering & Billing
Provide pay-as-you-grow scalability for your customers. More
Web Archive
Access the world's largest collection of monitoring probes. More
SaaS and On-Premises Deployment Options
- Complete Service Desk and Monitoring functionality
- No upfront management hardware costs; Accelerated ROI
- Reduced training and management overhead
- SLA based availability
- Access to Nimsoft operational expertise
- Control and customize the Nimsoft management server; Easily resell
- Control the physical location of data for policy, security or compliance reasons
- Support remote sites with poor Internet performance
Can't find what you are looking for? Contact sales@nimsoft.com for a more complete list of supported technologies or click to chat with one of our representatives now. Need more? Check out some of our other great pages for more information on our IT monitoring solutions
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