#vmware server monitoring

First lets define what VMware monitoring is. Usually it is the process of constant tracking of the health of virtual machines inside a virtualized IT infrastructure using, of course, VMware software. The way you achieve this is by using tools provided by other software companies that allow you to monitor performance, configuration, capacity planning and chargeback. Those are the basic capabilities that you should be looking for when choosing a VMware monitoring solution. But what does a great VMware monitoring solution do? As I see it, it should do the following:

Provide a complete view of your entire virtual infrastructure with comprehensive workload data for hosts, clusters and datastores, as well as thorough resource consumption 

All the information that you need should be available in summary dashboards so you don’t have to go around searching for the data that you need 5 minutes ago 

Storage monitoring that takes care of disk space and issues 

Provides ESX(i) host hardware information so you can track physical hardware as well as virtual

First lets define what VMware monitoring is. Usually it is the process of constant tracking of the health of virtual machines inside a virtualized IT infrastructure using, of course, VMware software. The way you achieve this is by using tools provided by other software companies that allow you to monitor performance, configuration, capacity planning and chargeback. Those are the basic capabilities that you should be looking for when choosing a VMware monitoring solution. But what does a great VMware monitoring solution do? As I see it, it should do the following:

Provide a complete view of your entire virtual infrastructure with comprehensive workload data for hosts, clusters and datastores, as well as thorough resource consumption 

All the information that you need should be available in summary dashboards so you don’t have to go around searching for the data that you need 5 minutes ago 

Storage monitoring that takes care of disk space and issues 

Provides ESX(i) host hardware information so you can track physical hardware as well as virtual

The easy with which a virtual infrastructure can grow is amazing. As your virtual infrastructure grows things get lost and forgotten. All you have to do to make sure that those things don’t take up the much needed space is ensure that you have the right VMware monitoring solution in place. Whether you are operating a small/medium size business or a multi-million dollar corporation, when constructing a virtual environment, have a VMware monitoring solution that will report on the status of your virtual environment at a moments notice. In my opinion, one of the capabilities that a VMware server monitoring solution must have is allow for the physical and virtual to be monitored from a single console. This will make it much easier to control and grasp your virtual infrastructure. Here is a picture of my perfect VMware server monitoring solution:

Dashboards with an at-a-glance view of the most useful information

Complete resource consumption and workload data for hosts, clusters and datastores

Storage and hardware monitoring

Customizable and built in alerts with explanation, causes, and possible solutions

Event and performance data relationship

The easy with which a virtual infrastructure can grow is amazing. As your virtual infrastructure grows things get lost and forgotten. All you have to do to make sure that those things don’t take up the much needed space is ensure that you have the right VMware monitoring solution in place. Whether you are operating a small/medium size business or a multi-million dollar corporation, when constructing a virtual environment, have a VMware monitoring solution that will report on the status of your virtual environment at a moments notice. In my opinion, one of the capabilities that a VMware server monitoring solution must have is allow for the physical and virtual to be monitored from a single console. This will make it much easier to control and grasp your virtual infrastructure. Here is a picture of my perfect VMware server monitoring solution:

Dashboards with an at-a-glance view of the most useful information

Complete resource consumption and workload data for hosts, clusters and datastores

Storage and hardware monitoring

Customizable and built in alerts with explanation, causes, and possible solutions

Event and performance data relationship