Single, common management console

Eliminate the VI expertise requirement in your HP OM 24/7 operations staff in order to perform routine VMware Infrastructure monitoring. The nworks SPI for VMware provides everything you need for comprehensive VI monitoring. The SPI for VMware provides out-of-the-box adaptive thresholds, automatic service mapping, event suppression, and vCenter™ event knowledge using the full power of HP Operations Manager.

Future-proof solution

The nworks Collector provides agentless monitoring of VI eliminating all risk of foreign software impacting ESX host availability. Using the VI API means no recertification for new hypervisor versions or patches, and full ESXi support.

The nworks SPI for VMware has been qualified through the VMware Ready testing process and is certified as VMware Ready Optimized. This key designation from VMware validates the SPI as being architected and tuned for VMware Infrastructure, providing you assurance that the SPI not only offers lower integration costs today but also will support VMware Infrastructure future directions.

Proactively monitor virtual infrastructure resources

Continuously monitor: CPU Ready, CPU Wait, balloon memory, hardware sensors (fan speed, host temperature, power consumption through CIM/SMASH), ESX swap space, data store space, host and VM physical resource utilization (CPU, memory, disk, and network). vCenter™ events are transformed to HP Operations Manager messages while performance data is collected for thresholding, graphing, reporting, and capacity planning.

Extensive report and graph library

The nworks Smart Plug-in for VMware includes an extensive and growing library of reports and graphs for HP Reporter, Performance Manager and Performance Insight. View availability and performance data for virtual and physical servers by customer, location or groups of your own design. Chart cluster and resource pool utilization and host hardware sensor data. Customize reports and graphs to fit your VMware infrastructure needs using HP tools.

More than 300 VMware-specific metrics and events

The nworks SPI allows for out-of-the-box monitoring with more than 300 VMware-specific metrics, properties and events including CIM SMASH hardware sensor metrics (e.g. temperature, voltage, fan speed). It automatically reflects the VMware infrastructure's topology in Operations Manager's service map to help you visually spot the probable root-cause.

New in version 4.5

• Business Segmentation for VMware - view your VMware from a business perspective: use vCenter custom attributes to segment VMware environments by line of business, department, location, SLA (service-level agreement) terms and other
• Major Scalability Improvement - manage more ESX hosts with less: large VMware environments can be managed now with less infrastructure and management overhead
• VMware Ready Optimized - both products have been certified through VMware’s own testing process ensuring future-proof ease of management and deployment