CA Nimsoft Monitor

Gain Visibility and Control over Dynamic VMware Environments

With CA Nimsoft Monitor for VMware, your team gets a comprehensive solution for managing events, alarms, and performance within VMware environments. CA Nimsoft Monitor arms you with the essential features you need to efficiently and effectively monitor VMware:

• Delivering automated monitoring configuration, deployment, and display.
• Automatically correlating VM hosts and guests.
• Retaining monitoring and thresholds when resource levels change or when VM guests are moved.

When used with additional elements of the CA Nimsoft Monitor solution, the same monitoring platform can be used to monitor service levels and application metrics and allow you to effectively meet and keep service level agreements for mission critical applications hosted within your VMware infrastructure.

Comprehensive VMware Monitoring Capabilities

CA Nimsoft Monitor offers a host of features that make it ideally suited to VMware environments:

Flexible Integration

• Agentless implementation—using remote management interfaces for vCenter or ESX/ESXi servers for data collection.
• APIs and gateways that allow integration of VMware monitoring with your data center tools and wider environment.
• Monitors at either the vCenter or ESX / ESXi level.
• Integration with other CA Nimsoft Monitor solutions provides a complete monitoring view of all business services, whether they run in VMware environments, the data center, private clouds, or public clouds.
• Specific, comprehensive support for VCE Vblock-based VMware environments.

Monitoring Efficiency

• Automated configuration, deployment of monitoring to VM guests based on VM guest parameters.
• Automated display of monitoring data using configurable, template-based list views.
• Discovery management views that include vCenter instances, ESX/ESXi servers, VMs, and resource views.
• Monitors multiple vCenter instances with a single data collector.
• Automated discovery of virtual elements within the environment—including resource pools, physical hosts and VM guests.

Practical, Intuitive Insights

• Alerts, trending, and real time intelligence support proactive problem prevention, and fast detection and correction of issues when they occur.
• Prebuilt displays and dashboards showing physical and virtual resource status.
• VMware intelligence ensures persistent, cohesive, and accurate monitoring view of changing virtualized environments.
• Granular, correlated views needed to ensure complex, mission critical business services deliver the performance and availability required.
• Monitoring of the health and performance of the vCenter management environment—including server status, performance and availability of the operating system, performance statistics, and the processing status of the application itself.
• Sophisticated usage tracking and reporting that enables effective communication of business value.

VMware Monitoring that Delivers Business Benefits

With CA Nimsoft Monitor, your business can:

• Reduce administrative effort and costs associated with monitoring dynamic VMware virtualization 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 your VMware environment in order to support more users, applications, and VMs.
• Streamline VMware monitoring administration.
• Improve tracking and demonstrate the business value of your virtualized environment.

Supported Versions

• VMware VirtualCenter 2.0.x, 2.5.x and 4.x.x (VC 1.0 not supported)
• VMware ESX 3, ESXi 3
• VMware ESX server 3.0.x, 3.5.x
• VMware ESXi server 3.5.x, 4.x.x
• vSphere 4.0 (ESX4, ESXi4, VC4)

Monitoring Coverage

vCenter

• API availability, API response time

Resource Pool

• Status, CPU settings and status, Memory setting and status

CPU

• By virtual, physical
• Usage, reserve capacity, extra, guaranteed, idle time, wait
• Reserved CPU usage, averages, counts

Host Sensor

• Current reading, health state

Events

• Error, warning, usage, information

Disk—Overall and per Disk, Physical and Virtual

• Bus resets, commands aborted & issued, read rate, red requests, write rate, write requests

Network

• Physical and virtual, overall and per network device
• Data receive/transmit rates, packets received/transmitted

Memory

• Some metrics either only physical or only virtual
• Usage, active, consumed, granted, balloon/target, heap/heap free, overhead, reserved/unreserved, shared / shared common, state, swap in/out/used/target, VMkernel use, zero

System

• Some metrics only host or only VM
• Running/maintenance/power state, Guest OS/heartbeat, disk capacity/free/%, Memory size/physical/guaranteed/host use%/not to exceed, Virtual CPU number of virtual/overall usage/guaranteed/not to exceed, CPU host usage/number of cores/speed per core/cpu packages/cpu threads, overall alarm status, heartbeats, total time, service and VM application console CPU usage, CPU status, Full Name, Host name, Host memory status/info, system status, VMcount/count active, CPU reserved, GuestDisk capacity/free/free%, guest host names/IP address, snapshot count/size, tool running status, VMname