SolarWinds Makes Monitoring of Virtual Environments a Cost-Effective, Easy Reality By VSM News Staff published: Wednesday, October 15 2008
Latest Free Tool, SolarWinds VM
Monitor, and enhancements to Orion Network Performance Monitor deliver enterprise-class
performance monitoring to VMware® environments.
AUSTIN, TX - October 15, 2008 - SolarWinds, a leader in
downloadable network management software, is making affordable and easy to use
performance monitoring for VMware® environments a reality. The release of a new free tool, SolarWinds
VM Monitor, and an update to its flagship Orion Network Performance Monitor
(NPM) will allow IT professionals to take advantage of the key characteristics
of SolarWinds' solutions - enterprise-class performance combined with affordability,
quick deployment and ease of use - to manage and monitor their virtual
deployments.
Businesses, both large and small, are rapidly moving to virtualization
in order to consolidate their server and network infrastructure, save money,
and improve overall uptime and flexibility.
These virtual deployments add additional monitoring challenges to an
already complex network environment.
Many affordable network management solutions lack the ability to extend
monitoring to performance and availability of virtual machines (VMs),
potentially impacting critical business services including e-mail, web
applications, and ERP. If performance
and fault monitoring for these environments is costly and complicated, IT
organizations will struggle to realize the full potential of a virtual
environment.
"Ten years ago, we sought to create a new approach
for network management solutions based on the combination of enterprise-class
performance, affordability and ease of deployment and use. Today, more than 50,000 customers, from small
businesses to the Fortune 500, trust our solutions to help them monitor and
manage critical networks," said Kenny Van Zant, chief product strategist. "As
the adoption of VMware environments
continues to grow, we have extended our approach to virtualization, giving
network engineers and administrators the ability to make the most of their
virtualization investment."
SolarWinds VM Monitor delivers an
intuitive, desktop dashboard that continuously monitors a VMware ESX server and
the associated virtual machines by providing real-time monitoring of ESX health
indicators. SolarWinds' free tool,
available for download
today, makes it easy to:
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Quickly check the health of a single VMware ESX server by monitoring CPU and memory utilization, number of virtual machines
configured and running, and much more
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View detailed individual virtual machine health statistics including VM name, IP
address and VM state, as well as processor, memory and disk usage.
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Leverage best
practice thresholds to begin monitoring virtualized servers out-of-the-box
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Prevent
performance degradation by checking threshold specific indicators to
remediate issues
When users are ready to expand monitoring
to their full VMware virtual environment, Orion Network Performance Monitor
(NPM) enables network engineers to monitor thousands of VMware ESX servers, as well as associated
virtual machine instances, and VMware® VirtualCenter. With this update, Orion NPM can read host MIB
information from each VMware ESX
server and its corresponding virtual machines, detailing statistics such as CPU
utilization, memory utilization, disk usage, and much more. The latest release also offers ESX-specific
alerts and reports. Orion Network Performance Monitor offers:
- Monitoring
and analysis of real-time, in-depth network performance metrics for
routers, switches, physical servers, ESX servers, virtual machines, and
any other SNMP-enabled devices
- Do-it-yourself deployment that
allows users to be up and running in about an hour
- Highly
intuitive, customizable web interface with point-and-click
simplicity that supports multiple views including cutting-edge maps and
global Top 10 lists
- Advanced
alerting for correlated events, sustained conditions, and complex
combinations of device states
- Modules to expand monitoring
of NetFlow traffic analysis and VoIP performance, wireless devices,
applications and servers
Users can find
more information, tips from SolarWinds company experts as well as peer support
and perspectives on Orion NPM, at Thwack, the SolarWinds
online community. Integrated links within the products give SolarWinds customers
the ability to search product forums, post questions, exchange custom scripts
and templates, and immediately access valuable knowledge and resources directly
from the community's more than 18,000 members.
On Thursday, October 30,
SolarWinds' Head Geek, Josh Stephens will host a "Geek Speak" webcast that will
take an in-depth look at monitoring ESX-based virtual environments and the
unique challenges associated with them.
For more information and to register for the "Monitoring the Virtual
Environment - A Technical Perspective
on ESX Server Health and Performance Monitoring" event, go to www.solarwinds.com/geek.
Pricing and
Availability
The SolarWinds VM Monitor is free and available for download on the SolarWinds site Orion NPM is available now and
pricing starts at $2,475 (USD) for 100 monitored elements including first year
maintenance. Orion NPM customers, currently under maintenance, get the 9.1
updates for free. For more information,
visit the SolarWinds website, download
a free 30-day evaluation, or call 866.530.8100.
About SolarWinds
SolarWinds
provides downloadable, enterprise-class network management software that is
affordable, easy to use, and guided by a large and growing user community.
Focused on the real-world needs of network professionals, SolarWinds products are simple to try, simple to
use, and simple to maintain, while providing the power, scale, and flexibility
needed by companies of all sizes. More than 50,000 customers from small
businesses to the largest enterprises rely on SolarWinds
products to take the complexity out of managing their networks. Learn more
today at http://www.solarwinds.com.
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