Vm Monitoring | Opnet Appresponse Xpert Vmon

Solution Overview OPNET Technologies, Inc.

Restore Visibility into Communication among Virtualized Servers with

AppResponse

TM

VMon

Easily monitor application performance and automatically determine the root-cause of performance problems within virtualized environments

Key Features

More and more enterprise IT organizations are consolidating their processing infrastructure by leveraging server virtualization. This offers significant benefits, including reduced operating costs, faster application deployment, and greater flexibility in optimizing resources. Ultimately, server virtualization can enable organizations to do more with less. These same organizations know that it is critical to ensure good application performance, regardless of what new technologies are employed to deliver those applications. This requires effective application performance management . However, vital application performance management functions can be hindered because most management solutions lack visibility into communications among virtual servers residing within the same physical machine. AppResponse Xpert VMon restores visibility of all the communications for the applications that are hosted on virtual servers, including communications within the physical server as well as traffic to and from systems outside of the physical server. It offers the same industry leading real-time monitoring and troubleshooting as OPNET’s hardware-based AppResponse Xpert appliances, with analytics that automatically identify the root cause of application performance problems. AppResponse Xpert VMon offers a lower total cost of operation (TCO) than other solutions that require an external appliance for analyzing data, including reduced power consumption and a smaller footprint.

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ALSTOM

within VMware host n Continuously monitors applications end-

to-end from within the virtual machine n Advanced analytics automatically identify

the root cause of application performance problems end-to-end, for fast mean-timeto-resolution n Restores visibility for server-to-server

communication within virtualized environments n Auto-discovers applications and applica-

tion dependencies n Baselines behavior and sets dynamic

thresholds to aid in rapid problem identification n Automatically generates alerts based on

over 60 performance metrics n Provides real-time SLA dashboards

Benefits n Restores lost application performance

visibility that results from migration to virtualized environments n Reduces complexity often associated with

server virtualization n Provides a unified view into application

performance for both the network and server teams n Provides unified view of all application

AppResponse Xpert VMon restores communications into [AppResponse Xpert’s] ability to quickly drill down to the cause of virtual machines by spanning performance issues, its amazing ease of use, and the clarity of its traffic from the virtual switch. presentation of so many useful metrics, have made it our primary tool for application performance management. Network Manager

n No additional physical footprint - runs

communication flows over the WAN, LAN and among virtual machines n Provides a lower total cost of operations

than hardware-based solutions

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Application and Network Performance