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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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 VCE Certified Vblock Ready
Vblock
Data Sheet: Nimsoft Monitor for Vblock (PDF)
Comprehensive Monitoring of Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms
Created by a joint coalition of Cisco, EMC, and VMware, Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms are a pre-integrated, pre-tested set of IT solutions that include processing, storage, virtualization, and networking infrastructures. Given their pre-packaged, virtualized nature, Vblock platforms pose unique, unprecedented monitoring challenges.
 Nimsoft Monitor for Vblock
Nimsoft Monitor for Vblock delivers the comprehensive coverage, automation, and intuitive insights you need to effectively monitor, manage, and optimize your Vblock environments. Nimsoft Monitor offers end-to-end performance and availability monitoring of all the physical and virtual elements in Vblock platforms—providing the insights you need to prevent outages before they happen and quickly remediate problems when they occur.
Unparalleled Capabilities for Effective, Efficient Vblock Monitoring
Nimsoft Monitor gives you a host of sophisticated and flexible features that are ideally suited to monitoring Vblock platforms:
- Automation. Nimsoft Monitor offers automated component discovery as well as automated monitoring configuration, deployment, reporting, and displays—capabilities that make it practical and efficient to track dynamic Vblock environments.
- Comprehensive infrastructure coverage. Nimsoft Monitor provides coverage for all physical and virtual elements in Vblock environments—including chassis, fabric interconnects, Cisco UCS, VMware, EMC storage, and more.
- Timely insights for proactive management. With Nimsoft Monitor, you get the insights you need to quickly identify the source of an issue, no matter where in the infrastructure it resides, to minimize outages and outage duration. Plus, it enables you to forecast trends, identify potential issues, and take steps to prevent them—before they affect users.
Key Features
Following is more information about some of the leading capabilities of Nimsoft Monitor:
Automation
Nimsoft Monitor delivers these capabilities:
- Automatic component discovery and topology creation.
- Automatic discovery of physical and virtual elements.
- Automatic monitoring configuration and deployment based on flexible templates.
- Automatic display of timely, accurate monitoring data.
- Automatic adjustment of monitoring in response to physical and virtual environment changes.
Comprehensive Coverage
Nimsoft Monitor offers comprehensive coverage of the following:
- Vblock packages. Nimsoft Monitor offers support for Vblock Series 300 and 700 platforms.
- Vblock components. With this solution, you can monitor Cisco UCS and Cisco Network components, EMC storage elements, VMware virtualization, and more.
- Physical elements. Nimsoft Monitor tracks historical operations and current environmental status of physical elements, including fans and fan modules, power supply units, chassis modules, fabric interconnects, and IO modules. In addition, the solution offers basic environmental monitoring of blade interfaces, processors, memory arrays, storage units, storage configurations, and more.
- Associated applications. Nimsoft Monitor enables you to track enterprise applications and services, Web application environments, database applications, and more.
Capabilities for Turning Data into Useful Insights
Nimsoft Monitor offers both pre-packaged and customizable dashboards and reports that deliver timely, intuitive insights in a range of areas:
- Over / under subscription management.
- Usage metering.
- Business service and SLA monitoring.
Integration Flexibility
With the solution’s APIs and built-in gateways, you can integrate Vblock platform monitoring with your data center tools and wider environment.
Benefits
With Nimsoft Monitor, your organization can enjoy these benefits:
Improve Availability and Performance
- Ensure optimal service levels for mission-critical applications hosted within the Vblock platform.
- Quickly identify problems across the entire Vblock environment for rapid outage resolution.
- Prevent downtime, reduce outage duration, and improve SLA compliance with predictive monitoring and real-time, well-correlated alerts.
Streamline Monitoring Administration
- Eliminate the overhead and expense of manual monitoring configuration and deployment—through sophisticated monitoring automation.
- Streamline monitoring administration with a single view and tool set that monitors Vblock platforms, data centers, and cloud environments.
Optimize Resource Utilization and Business Performance
- Turn IT monitoring data into a dollars and cents conversation.
- Optimize Vblock resource allocation.
- Leverage usage information in order to better track and demonstrate the business value of Vblock platform investments.
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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