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CA Nimsoft Monitor for Vblock

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.

CA Nimsoft Monitor for Vblock delivers the comprehensive coverage, automation, and intuitive insights you need to effectively monitor, manage, and optimize your Vblock environments. CA 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

CA Nimsoft Monitor gives you a host of sophisticated and flexible features that are ideally suited to monitoring Vblock platforms:

Automation. CA 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. CA 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 CA 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 CA Nimsoft Monitor:

Automation

CA 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

CA Nimsoft Monitor offers comprehensive coverage of the following:

Vblock packages. CA Nimsoft Monitor supports the following Vblock Infrastructure Platforms: 0, 1, 1U, 300, and 700.
Vblock components. With this solution, you can monitor Cisco UCS and Cisco Network components, EMC storage elements, VMware virtualization, and more.
Physical elements. CA 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. CA Nimsoft Monitor enables you to track enterprise applications and services, Web application environments, database applications, and more.

Capabilities for Turning Data into Useful Insights

CA 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 CA 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

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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