Single management console

Equip your operations staff to perform 24x7 VMware monitoring in Ops Manager—without specialized virtualization expertise or additional training. The nworks SPI provides out-of-the-box thresholds, targeting, event suppression, and a detailed knowledge base that embody Veeam’s deep VMware expertise and leverage the full power of Ops Manager.

Future-proof solution

The nworks SPI monitors the VMware environment agentlessly, eliminating the risk of agent software impacting ESX host stability and performance. Because the nworks SPI uses the vSphere API, there is no need for agent recertification for new hypervisor versions or patches, and full ESXi support is provided. The nworks SPI delivers native support for the latest vSphere events and capabilities, enabling an in-depth and comprehensive integration between VMware and Ops Manager.

Comprehensive end-to-end monitoring

In addition to comprehensive agentless monitoring, the nworks SPI integrates application and service data from Ops Manager agents running inside Windows virtual machines (VMs) with the vSphere topology. This breakthrough functionality enables full end-to-end monitoring extending all the way from the virtual datacenter, ESX cluster, host and VM, to enterprise applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory and Exchange running inside virtual machines.

Enterprise-class scalability and performance

The nworks SPI includes all the components needed for secure, enterprise-ready operations with a distributed architecture, high availability and load balancing, offering continuous monitoring of the largest ESX environments with maximum efficiency and minimal overhead. Centralized management for licensing and configuration across multiple collectors greatly simplifies deployment and ongoing operations.

Proactive monitoring of virtual infrastructure resources

The nworks SPI integrates visibility of key VMware data into HP Ops Manager, including:

• Virtual machine metrics such as CPU ready time, swapfile usage and balloon memory
• ESX host hardware sensors such as fan speed, chassis temperature and power consumption
• ESX hypervisor metrics such as storage I/O and latency, swapfile performance and datastore space
• vCenter events on Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS), High Availability (HA), VM deployment, licensing, permissions, configuration and more

Extensive report and graph library

The nworks Smart Plug-in includes an extensive and growing library of reports and graphs for HP Reporter, Performance Manager and Performance Insight. Chart cluster and resource pool utilization and host hardware sensor data. Customize reports and graphs to fit your VMware infrastructure needs using HP tools.

Veeam Business View integration

The nworks Smart Plug-in provides more than just a traditional infrastructure-oriented view of the virtual environment. By integrating with Veeam Business View™, it can also organize and present information by department, geographic location, server function or any other criteria you define.
Veeam Business View is a no-cost utility that allows you to categorize VMs in any way that’s appropriate for your business and automatically assign VMs to the appropriate categories. Learn More

New in version 5.5

With new version 5.5, you can benefit from:

• Enhanced enterprise support for mission-critical VMware deployments: Includes 2x scalability and performance, improved failover and load balancing, and a new deployment toolkit.
• Updated certifications: The nworks Smart Plug-in is now certified by VMware as VMware Ready on both vSphere 4 and VI3, and it’s certified by HP on OMW 8 and OMU 9.
• These metrics, which are unique to nworks, extend the standard metrics available from the vSphere API to provide more operationally relevant measures of VMware performance.