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Management Pack for VMware
for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
New! Version 4.0 now available |  |
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An agentless way to bring VMware monitoring into your enterprise management console
Leverage your investment in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager to confidently give operations personnel the ability to assume routine VMware infrastructure monitoring. Free up VMware professionals to focus on troubleshooting, capacity planning and other specialized tasks.
The innovative nworks Collector does not require agent software on ESX hosts, which eliminates any risk of agent software impacting ESX availability. Because the nworks Management Pack (MP) uses the VMware API, ESXi is fully supported.
The nworks MP provides access to 300 VMware-specific metrics – data like CPU, memory, disk and network utilization by host and guest. It also provides access to VMware-specific health and performance metrics like CPU % Ready and Balloon Memory, and can provide composite information around VMware clusters and resource pools. The MP also includes the event stream from VirtualCenter, VMware topology and configuration information and a dynamic service map of your virtual environment.
Version 4.0 includes comprehensive end-to-end monitoring from ESX Cluster, to ESX Host, to Virtual Machine and to Applications inside the VM. The nworks/Veeam MP now provides integration of application and service data with the VI3 topology. This breakthrough functionality enables a fully integrated picture, with end-to-end monitoring from ESX Servers through to the enterprise applications, such as SQL Server, Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange running inside virtual machines.
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"When we decided to evaluate the Veeam/nworks Management Pack for VMware, we found that it was quick and easy to use. There was no need to introduce a new or separate framework into our environment in order to monitor VMware. There is nothing else I’m aware of that connects Microsoft System Center Operations Manager with VMware, so nworks proved to be the right fit for our needs."
Neil Davies,
Roy Braad, IT Coordinator,
ArcelorMittal Bremen Gmbh.
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Version 4.0 also includes new features such as CIM SMASH hardware sensor status and alerts, graphical representations of data stores, flexible collection intervals, VirtualCenter 2.5 performance counters, and more!
Included with the Management Pack are:
- A full set of customizable Rules/Monitors for monitoring performance and events
- An automatically created Topology Diagram to provide a visual overview of your virtual environment
- Integration with Microsoft alerting & notification mechanisms
- Integration with Microsoft Reporting Warehouse
From an architectural standpoint, the nworks MP can be divided into two basic pieces – the Collector, which gathers the data, and the Management Pack that is imported into Operations Manager. The Collector is a .NET application that runs in either a virtual or physical environment, and in smaller installations, can be collocated with the VirtualCenter server or the management server. The Collector gathers the data from your virtual environment using VMware’s API and SDK and publishes it to the local Operations Manager agent.
The nworks MP supports the following integrations:
Microsoft Integrations
- MOM 2005 SP1
- Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1
VMware Solutions
- ESX Server 2.X and 3.X, including ESXi
- VirtualCenter 2.0.X and 2.5
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"The thing we like best is the nworks Management Pack’s ability to discover ESX hosts and the VMs running on them. It’s important for us to be able to track what VMware process is running where and on what VM, and now we can see our entire ESX infrastructure, even the Resource Pool node, from within Microsoft Operations Manager."
Gerrie Louw,
IT specialist,
Standard Bank of South Africa
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