Single, common management console

Equip your System Center Operations Manager 24/7 operations staff to perform routine VMware Infrastructure monitoring without specialized virtualization expertise. The nworks MP for VMware provides everything you need for comprehensive VI monitoring. The MP for VMware provides out-of-the-box thresholds, targeting, event suppression, and VMware event knowledge using the full power of System Center Operations Manager.

Future-proof solution

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

The nworks MP has been qualified through the VMware Ready testing process and is certified as VMware Ready Optimized. This key designation from VMware validates the MP as being architected and tuned for VMware Infrastructure, providing you assurance that the MP 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 resources (CPU, memory, disk, and network). vCenter events are transformed to System Center Operations Center alerts while performance data is collected for thresholding, graphing, reporting.

Comprehensive end-to-end monitoring

The nworks MP for VMware provides integration of application and service data with the VI3 topology. In addition to comprehensive agentless monitoring, the MP for VMware leverages data from Operations Manager agents running inside Windows VMs. This breakthrough functionality enables a fully integrated picture, with end-to-end monitoring extending from ESX Cluster, to ESX Host, to VM, to enterprise applications such as SQL Server, Active Directory, and Microsoft Exchange running inside virtual machines.

More than 300 VMware-specific metrics and events

The nworks MP 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 builds a full VI3 Topology Diagram in Operations Manager to help you visually spot the probable root-cause.

New in version 4.5

With new version 4.5 you can benefit from:

• 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