Best Tools: VMware ESX Virtualization Management

Veeam Monitor is an enterprise-level application that enables multi-admin access to performance data without affecting ESX server and VirtualCenter performance or changing your access policies. It gathers all performance information into a SQL database, allowing users to access infrastructure-wide performance data and reporting as needed.

Veeam Monitor is integrated with VMware VirtualCenter to provide cluster-aware monitoring of your virtual machines. Veeam Monitor supports and extends VMware’s management framework, offloading the monitoring burden from VirtualCenter for enhanced VC performance. And with support for multiple VirtualCenters, Veeam Monitor shows performance data from your entire virtual infrastructure on a single screen – no matter how large your VMware deployment is.

Veeam Monitor shows comprehensive resource consumption and workload data, all the way down to the individual virtual machine level. This speeds up analysis and troubleshooting, and helps you determine potential resource bottlenecks. Find out at a glimpse which components of your VMware infrastructure are the largest resource consumers – right now and over time.

Veeam Monitor helps you to understand how virtual infrastructure activities affect your VM performance, and solve resource usage mysteries with real-time monitoring graphs. These graphs display known virtual infrastructure events, such as VMotion, snapshot creation and deletion, or backup activities, directly on the performance data.

All resource usage views support consumption trending and capacity planning, providing you with the historical data you need to proactively plan the growth and deployment of new virtual machines. Generate detailed graphical Excel or HTML performance reports for any period of time to analyze resource consumption trends and plan capacity, or to use this information for chargeback. Reports include detailed graphs on CPU, Memory, Disk I/O, Network I/O and Swap usage for each ESX host, resource pool, cluster or the virtual machines they are running.

Veeam Monitor provides comprehensive alerting with custom alarms that can be based on many sources. You can easily set up e-mail notifications or SNMP traps for important events such as a given number of running VMs is exceeded, VM heartbeat is lost, a specific event is generated by VirtualCenter etc. This allows for faster administrator response to critical issues, helping you to maintain better health and uptime of your virtual infrastructure. And with the Alarm Modeling feature, you can quickly ensure that you have correctly set alarm benchmarks and thresholds by testing a newly created alarm using historical data.

The Veeam Monitor user interface was designed and optimized specifically for monitoring tasks. You can switch easily between different views to quickly find the VMware Infrastructure component you are looking for, or you can perform an integrated search. Drill down to an individual VM and find out what processes are running there, how much CPU and memory they are consuming, and even terminate some of the processes as needed. Or, you can simply connect to the VM console – all right from the Monitor user interface.