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VMware Monitoring & Management

Hyperic HQ for VMware is a pioneering new solution that enables data centers to consolidate complete discovery, monitoring, analysis and control of all application, system and network assets, both inside and outside of the virtual machines powered by VMware.

Your Key to Systems Monitoring for Virtual Machines

Hyperic HQ provides complete systems manageability by combining a monitoring intelligence portal with an application management platform.

• Full VMware Server and ESX Support
• Analyze Utilization and Performance Inside VMs
• Correlate Events Between Host and Guests
• Start, Stop and Control all VMs*
• Easy Setup - Get Started in 20 Minutes

HQ's portal enables system administrators to analyze performance metrics from the outside in, from VMware's perspective on how the physical and virtual machines are performing, and from the inside out, from inside the virtual machine and how its operating system, applications, middleware, databases and services are behaving.

This layered view of the infrastructure deployment allows system administrators to readily diagnose performance issues that are easily missed when looking from the traditional outside in perspective. Historical charting, event correlation capabilities, and configurable graphs allow system administrators to quickly review, drilldown and refine performance data analysis to achieve results.

Hyperic HQ's application management platform supports the widest and most up to date footprint of networks, hardware, operating systems, applications, middleware, databases and services already in current use today. Hyperic's powerful Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) empowers administrators and developers alike to extend management capabilities to additional hardware, applications and services to provide a complete view of the hybrid stack organizations strive to manage.

With support for VMware Server and ESX, HQ's auto discovery will dynamically discover all virtual machines in any VMware host, and will continue to update the inventory to keep pace with rapidly redeployed and moved resources typical of a virtualized deployment. HQ also provides monitoring of the VMware host and the individual VM's resource consumption to help administrators understand the consumption of host machine resources by every individual virtual machine.

Event Management From the Ground Up

HQ's event management features are used to provide visibility into the log events reported for every VM managed by HQ. Log events provide system awareness for performance data, configuration changes and security action changes. These events can be used to generate alerts, or simply correlate errors reported in the VMware logs with other performance and health indicators elsewhere in the environment.

HQ's control infrastructure allows you to pause, stop, start, and snapshot virtual machines directly from the HQ interface, consolidating primary management tasks into the monitoring intelligence portal.

Discover how easy VMware monitoring and management can be. Take a fully functional FREE test drive of Hyperic HQ today!

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Additional Details

Auto-Discover your hardware and VMware servers
Monitor every metric, log, and configuration for all VMware resources in your inventory
Identify problem resources with automatic baselines for every metric
Control all your VMware resources on-demand, on schedule, or in response to alerts
Alert on any measurement, log, or security event in your VMware environment

VMware Supported Versions

VMware GSX 3.x
VMware Server 1.x
VMware ESX 2.x
VMware ESX 3.x

VMware Monitoring Specification

General Server Metrics
   Availability
   Memory Available for VMs
   Memory Used by VMs
   CPU Used
   CPU Used per Minute
   CPU Idle
   CPU Idle per Minute
   Number of CPUs

VMware ESX 2.x and 3.x VM NIC Metrics
   Availability
   Packets Transmitted
   Packets Transmitted per Minute
   Packets Received
   Packets Received per Minute
   Bytes Transmitted
   Bytes Transmitted per Minute
   Bytes Received
   Bytes Received per Minute

VMware ESX 2.x and 3.x VM Disk Metrics
   Availability
   Reads
   Reads per Minute
   Writes
   Writes per Minute
   Bytes Read
   Bytes Read per Minute
   Bytes Written
   Bytes Written per Minute

VMware ESX 2.x and 3.x VM Metrics
   Availability
   Process Virtual Memory Size
   Process Resident Memory Size
   Process Page Faults
   Process Page Faults per Minute
   Process Cpu System Time
   Process Cpu System Time per Minute
   Process Cpu User Time
   Process Cpu User Time per Minute
   Process Uptime
   Process Cpu Total Time
   Process Cpu Total Time per Minute
   Process Cpu Usage
   VM Cpu Wait
   VM Cpu Wait per Minute
   VM Cpu Used
   VM Cpu Used per Minute
   VM Cpu Sys
   VM Memory Shares
   VM Memory Minimum
   VM Memory Maximum
   VM Memory Size
   VM Memory Ctl
   VM Memory Swapped
   VM Memory Shared
   VM Memory Active
   VM Memory Overhead
   VM Uptime

VMware GSX 3.x and Server 1.x VM Metrics
   Availability
   Process Virtual Memory Size
   Process Resident Memory Size
   Process Page Faults
   Process Page Faults per Minute
   Process Cpu System Time
   Process Cpu System Time per Minute
   Process Cpu User Time
   Process Cpu User Time per Minute
   Process Uptime
   Process Cpu Total Time
   Process Cpu Total Time per Minute
   Process Cpu Usage

VMware Control Specification

Control Actions
start
stop
reset
suspend
resume
createSnapshot
revertSnapshot
deleteSnapshot
saveScreenshot

Technologies Managed

Operating Systems | Web Servers | Application Servers | Databases | Messaging Middleware | Microsoft Technology | Virtualization |
Mail Servers | Network Management | Application Management | Distributed Platforms | Application Platforms | Integrated Applications