virtualization
Virtualization
Nimsoft Monitor offers sophisticated, comprehensive, and efficient monitoring of virtualized environments. With the alerts, trending information, and real-time intelligence administrators need to prevent problems and quickly correct issues, Nimsoft Monitor makes it possible for organizations to fully leverage the performance, agility, and cost benefits of virtualization.
Virtualization is inherently complex and fluid, with VMs being started and stopped, moved for availability, and dependent on underlying physical infrastructure. Nimsoft virtualization IT monitoring addresses these problems with an automated, efficient solution:
- Delivering the intelligence needed to ensure monitoring continuity.
- Automatically correlating physical and virtual resources.
- Automatically configuring, deploying, and displaying monitoring for virtual infrastructure.
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IBM PowerVM
Data Sheet: Nimsoft Monitor for IBM PowerVM (PDF)
 Nimsoft Monitor for IBM PowerVM IBM PowerVM’s virtualization for the IBM Power6 and Power7 processor family supports AIX, Linux, and IBM I series virtual machines. Virtualization usage results in increased density and complexity—with up to 10 VMs per processor core, shared partitioned resources, processor and storage pools, and live partition mobility. This increased variability and complexity results in new requirements for monitoring.
Nimsoft Monitor for IBM PowerVM uses agentless data collection and core Nimsoft Monitor platform features to:
- Provide events, alarms, and performance data from the IBM PowerVM physical server as well as the VMs it hosts—including metrics for system state, disk, network, CPU, and memory as well as storage pools and resource pools.
- Automatically create and display monitoring data using Nimsoft templates and list views.
- Correlate and display container monitoring with data from the IBM PowerVM-based host.
This solution allows monitoring thresholds and data sets collected to be automatically set by OS version, container name, or other parameter, and then appropriately displayed and correlated. This approach eliminates the need to manually apply monitoring for base CPU, disk, network, and memory metrics.
For a more complete view of entire business services, or deeper views into the operation of applications and virtual servers, use additional elements of the Nimsoft Monitor solution to set and meet SLAs for the applications and systems hosted within IBM PowerVM virtualized environments.
Key Features
- Agentless
Uses remote management interfaces for IBM PowerVM for data collection
- Automated
Automates display of monitoring data using configurable, template-based list views that show both Solaris physical host resources and Container resources
- Supports preventive action and quick response times
Provides alerts, trending, and real time intelligence that support proactive problem prevention, and fast detection and correction of issues when they occur.
- Supports business service monitoring
An element of the complete set of Nimsoft Monitor solutions enables a comprehensive monitoring view of business services, whether they run in a VM, or the wider data center, as well as within private clouds or public clouds.
- Comprehensive
When combined with additional Nimsoft Monitor components, provides the granular, correlated views needed to ensure complex, mission critical business services deliver the performance and availability required.
- Usage metering
Delivers sophisticated usage tracking and reporting that enables effective communication of business value.
- Connected to your wider data center environment
Sophisticated APIs and gateways that allow integration of monitoring from Solaris Zones with your data center tools and wider IT environment.
Benefits
- Reduce administrative effort and costs associated with monitoring IBM PowerVM virtualized environments.
- Maximize the utilization and value of both physical and virtual resources.
- Prevent downtime and improve SLA compliance.
- Ensure peak levels of performance and availability.
- Maximize utilization of IBM PowerVM systems in order to support more users, applications, and VMs.
- Better track and demonstrate the business value delivered through your use of virtualization.
- When combined with other elements of the Nimsoft Monitor solution, maintain performance SLAs and uptime for business critical multi-server applications with monitoring for complete service infrastructures. Including Solaris OS instances within containers, network, storage, and the transaction times for applications hosted within virtualized IBM PowerVM environments.
Technical Details
Supported versions:
- IBM PowerVM Standard
- IBM PowerVM Express
- IBM PowerVM Enterprise
Note: Metrics vary by managed system, VIO Server and LPAR. Not all metrics apply against all elements.
System
- Execution State, Maximum LPARs Supported, Average CPU Utilization, Disk Paging
CPU
- Available Processing Units, Configurable Processing Units, Deconfigured Processing Units, Installed Processing Units, Active Processors, Assigned Processors, Current Processing Units, Maximum Processors, Minimum Processors, Physical Processors Consumed, Processing Mode, Processor Entitlement Consumed, Runtime Processing Units, Sharing Mode
Disk
- Disk Size (per disk), Disk Bandwidth Used (%) (per disk), Disk Data Transfer Rate (per disk), System Data Transfer Rate
Network
- Kilobytes Received (per device), Kilobytes Sent (per device), Last Reset Time (per device), Packets Received (per device), Packets Sent (per device)
Memory
- Assigned Memory, Configurable Memory, Deconfigured Memory, Installed Memory, Percent Memory Assigned, Unassigned Memory, Maximum Memory, Minimum Memory, Used Memory
Storage Pool
- Storage Pool Free (per pool), Storage Pool Size (per pool), Storage Pool Used (per pool), Storage Pool Utilization (per pool)
CPU Pool
- Global Shared Processor Pool Size, Global Shared Processor Pool Utilization
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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