By VSM News Staff

published: Tuesday, April 29 2008

Built-In Awareness of VMware® Infrastructure Provides Layered Views of Data Centers, Clusters, Resource Pools and Virtual Machines.

Powered by Foglight® from Quest Software, vCharter Pro provides views of different infrastructure layers from entire data centers through to ESX clusters, resource pools, shared storage and even individual virtual machines. vCharter Pro also allows administrators to pinpoint resource contention among CPU, memory, disk or NICs, as well as capture key metrics over time for historical trending and reporting.

“Organizations implementing virtualization often start small then accelerate the pace and scale of deployment as they see the significant benefits the technology delivers,” said Chris Akerberg, Vizioncore President and Chief Operating Officer. “As customers build fully-virtualized enterprise data centers, performance and manageability become key concerns for users, who often don’t have the time or resources to understand and address everything that is going on in their environment. vCharter Pro delivers a wealth of metrics on activity and performance at different levels within the virtualized infrastructure and alerts customers on potential issues and bottlenecks, as well as ways to address these problems. As an increasing amount of critical, highly transactional workloads are virtualized, performance issues are only likely to increase, and we see this as a compelling case for a product like vCharter Pro.”

vCharter Pro features:

·        Single web-based “pane-of-glass” view shows activity and performance at the VirtualCenter, data center, resource pool, cluster, ESX Server, virtual machine and storage levels

·        Scales to support thousands of virtual machines and multiple VirtualCenter deployments

·        Automated alarms and alerts on performance issues and potential bottlenecks

·        “Understands” components of the VMware platform and can “roll-up” problems at lower levels into higher-level alarms

·        Datastore predictive monitoring helps determine when more storage will be required

·        “Raw” metrics can be combined into “derived” metrics for higher-level information

·        Database of metrics provide historical trending.

·        Vizioncore vCharter Pro is available immediately from Vizioncore’s worldwide channel partner network.

For more information, visit www.vizioncore.com/vCharterPro

About Vizioncore Inc.

Founded in 2002, Vizioncore Inc. provides the most comprehensive and innovative set of solutions that extend and enhance the capabilities of virtualized infrastructures. Almost 8,000 organizations across the world, from SMBs to large-scale enterprises, use Vizioncore’s products to support IT strategies for backup and recovery, disaster recovery, P2V/V2V, performance monitoring and improvement and chargeback in virtualized environments. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Vizioncore is a leader in the virtualization industry with a global presence and sales channel that encompasses more than 1,100 partners worldwide. Vizioncore is a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software. Additional information about Vizioncore and its products and services can be found at www.vizioncore.com .