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Data Sheet: CA Nimsoft Monitor for FlexPod (PDF)

CA 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.

CA 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.

CA 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 FlexPod Monitoring of the Physical Infrastructure

CA 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

CA 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, CA Nimsoft Monitor offers the APIs and built-in gateways that enable efficient integration with data center tools and other systems and services.

Sophisticated FlexPod Monitoring Automation

CA Nimsoft Monitor offers a host of capabilities that significantly streamline FlexPod 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

MM 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

CA Nimsoft Portal

Unified view of IT performance More

Executive Dashboards

Powerful out-of-box executive views More

Flexible Pricing & Licensing

Works with your budget, and your business. More

Gateways and 3rd Party Integration

Integrate all of your IT management tools with ease. More

IT Service Level Management

Set, meet, and exceed your SLAs. 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

CA Nimsoft for iPhone

A unified view, now in your pocket. More

On-Premise or SaaS

Flexibility to suit your business. More

Performance Management Database (PMDB)

Spot trends before they become problems. More

Security

Keep private data private. More

Usage-based Metering & Billing

Provide pay-as-you-grow scalability for your customers. More

Web Archive

Access the world’s largest collection of IT 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 CA Nimsoft operational expertise
Control and customize the CA Nimsoft management server; Easily resell
Control the physical location of data for policy, security or compliance reasons
Support remote sites with poor Internet performance

SaaS

On-Premises

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