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Certified Smart Plug-in for VMware
for HP Software Operations Manager
New! Version 4.0 now available |  |
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An agentless way to bring VMware monitoring into your enterprise management console
Leverage your investment in HP Software Operations Manager to confidently give operations personnel the ability to assume routine VMware infrastructure monitoring. Free up VMware professionals to focus on troubleshooting, capacity planning and other specialized tasks.
The innovative nworks Collector does not require agent software on ESX hosts, which eliminates any risk of agent software impacting ESX availability. Because the nworks SPI uses the VMware API, ESXi is fully supported.
Version 4.0 includes new features such as CIM SMASH hardware sensor status and alerts, graphical representations of data stores, flexible collection intervals, VirtualCenter 2.5 performance counters, and more!
The nworks SPI provides access to 300 VMware-specific metrics – data like CPU, memory, disk and network utilization by host and guest. It also provides access to VMware-specific health and performance metrics like CPU % Ready and Balloon Memory, and can provide composite information around VMware clusters and resource pools. The SPI also includes the event stream from VirtualCenter, VMware topology and configuration information and a dynamic service map of your virtual environment.
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"The SPI for VMware from nworks has helped AtosOrgin reduce operating costs by integrating ESX Server management information directly into HP OpenView Operations for Windows. The service orientation, performance reporting and monitoring are key aspects of the solution."
Olivier Grellard,
Operations Manager,
Atos Outsourcing Services France.
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Included with the install packages for the management servers are:
- A full set of customizable rules/polices for monitoring performance and events.
- Integration with the HP management maps to provide visual overview of your virtual environment
- Integration with HP alerting mechanisms
- Integration with HP reporting systems
From an architectural standpoint, the nworks SPI can be divided into two basic pieces – the Collector, which gathers the data, and the installation package for the management server. The Collector is a .NET application that runs in either a virtual or physical environment and in smaller installations can be collocated with the VirtualCenter server or the management server. The Collector gathers the data from your virtual environment using VMware’s API and SDK and publishes it to the local performance agent.
The nworks SPI supports the following integrations:
HP Software (OpenView) Integrations
- Operations for Windows 7.X
- Operations for Unix 8.X (HP-PA, Itanium, and SPARC)
- Reporter 3.x
- Service Navigator
- Performance Manager
- Performance Insight
VMware Solutions
- ESX Server 2.X and 3.X, including ESXi
- VirtualCenter 2.0.x and 2.5
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"Our experience working with Veeam has been excellent, well above my expected standards. The nworks SPI for VMware has been very effective in stabilizing our VMware environment by providing threshold alerts and aiding our overall management. The SPI allows us to support our system from a proactive position and gives us a heads-up to potential problems."
Scott Bader,
Manager of Enhance Services,
Coach.
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