WhatsUp Gold Technology
Complete Virtualization Management
Discover, map, monitor, alert and manage virtual and physical resources through a single console
As a network or systems administrator, it is likely you have already embraced virtualization or are thinking of doing so. Virtualization reduces hardware costs and overall total cost of ownership, and it gives you tremendous amount of flexibility to quickly provision server capacity whenever your business or applications so demand. In addition, you can even perform live migrations using VMware vMotion™ , or rely on VMware High Availability to re-start or move a running virtual machine (VM) to another server in the event of hardware or operating system failure for complete failover protection.
Apart from its multiple benefits, the dynamic nature of virtualization introduces a new set of management challenges such as how to:
- Discover and document both physical and virtualized resources
- Maintain an accurate physical to VM mapping at all times
- Reduce the risk of virtual sprawl, or the rapid proliferation of virtual servers
- Ensure that applications perform at optimal pre-virtualization levels
- Integrate alerting, escalation and response procedures across your entire infrastructure and VMware and non-VMware administrators
- Rapidly locate the true root cause of a performance problem
To address these challenges, and efficiently manage dynamic virtualized infrastructures, you need to discover, map, monitor and control your network devices, server, applications, virtual resources, network traffic and log files from a SINGLE console. After all, if you are using multiple management consoles you will have to examine multiple reports and interfaces to correlate information across hundreds of virtual machines and physical servers. And having to perform manual tracking tasks can severely hinder troubleshooting efforts and increase MTTR (mean time to resolution), making your job much more difficult and time consuming.
Integrated Monitoring and Management of Physical and Virtual Resources in One Single Console
WhatsVirtual is a newer plug-in to the WhatsUp Gold core platform that allows you to discover, map, monitor and manage your VMware virtual server environment exactly in the same way and from the same console as your physical server infrastructure, applications and network devices. You don’t need to look at multiple screens trying to figure out what went wrong or is likely to do so – since WhatsVirtual and WhatsUp Gold bring it all together. And because it discovers, monitors, and controls all virtual resources through VMware vCenter™ Server, the foundation of your VMware deployment, you can be assured of complete monitoring accuracy and reliability.
With WhatsUp Gold WhatsVirtual you can:
- Automatically discover and map VMware ESXi hosts and their associated guest systems
- Monitor health, availability and performance of VMware vCenter Servers, the heart of your VMware investment
- View virtual server performance seamlessly along with information from your physical servers
- Track live virtual machines migrations in real-time, and understand virtual to physical relations at all times
- Get alerted in real-time when utilization on host systems, virtual machines or virtual clusters breach thresholds
- Actively manage virtual machines on demand or on a scheduled basis using VMware tools
- Manage your entire datacenter infrastructure and applications from a single console
Single Point of Control across your virtual and physical resources