VMware Monitoring Tool

Q: What is VMware vSphere?

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VMware monitoring ensures complete visibility into your VMware infrastructure by baselining your resources, including servers, hosts, and virtual machines. Boost efficiency, evade resource contention, and facilitate capacity planning by leveraging our AI-powered VMware monitoring tool.

Access the unified portal to drill down availability, health, and performance deviations. Start monitoring up to 5 ESXi hosts/VMs/datastores/resource pools for just $9 per month.

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Complete VMware vSphere performance monitoring

Auto-discover your vSphere environment and correlate critical performance metrics from servers, clusters, hosts to virtual machines with our VMware monitoring tool. Get real-time mapping and reduce MTTR by keeping track of VMs at various hierarchical levels.

vCenter

Get insights into virtual machines, clusters, hosts, datastores, and network components to stay ahead of performance issues in CPU, Memory, Disk, and Uptime.

Cluster

Analyze the performance across VM clusters by gauging key metrics including CPU, memory, and storage usage, Distributed Resource Scheduler, and Effective Storage capacity.

ESX/ESXi Host

Ensure optimal resources for VMs by tracking the ESX/ESXi CPU, memory, disk, latencies, read-write rates, and hardware sensors.

Virtual Machine

Monitor the performance of your virtual environment and analyze VM space split up in associated datastores with an agentless monitoring system.

Datastore

View various storage and latency metrics to pinpoint the VMs exhausting the resources, and plan adequate storage capacity to avoid productivity issues.

Resource Pool

Monitor the utilization, reservations, limits, and share values of CPU and memory to avoid resource contention.

Snapshot

Manage space requirements by tracking the age and size of individual snapshots, their impact on the associated datastores, and avoid VM performance issues.

Capabilities of Site24x7 VMware performance monitoring tool

Troubleshoot problems with hardware health

Monitor the health of ESX/ESXi host hardware components such as CPU processor, memory, fan, temperature, voltage, power, storage, battery, and Watchdog with threshold settings and alerts.

Assess datastore performance

Analyze I/O performance metrics by measuring latency and read-write speeds for every host and VM connected to the datastore. Identify whether you have too many VMs or poor disk performance. Obtain performance metrics at the host level, VM level, and guest OS level, and correlate them for complete vSphere performance monitoring.

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Handle VM space issues by understanding snapshot behavior

Snapshots are the first place to look when a VM is slow or a datastore is full. View the snapshot space split-up categorized VM-wise, and learn how much percentage of your VM space is occupied by snapshots. You can also predict datastore snapshot space with AI-powered insights.

Monitor CPU, memory, and network usage

Measure active CPU and memory usage for each guest VM, and reduce memory size to free up unused memory for other VMs. Identify your network performance by monitoring network usage and bandwidth at the host and VM levels.

Receive instant alerts

Configure AI-based threshold limits for all key performance metrics, and receive instant alerts on the mediums of your choice. Take remedial actions and receive SLA reports, custom reports, top N reports, health trend reports, and more, right in your inbox. Also, receive instant alerts when your VMs become orphaned so that you can take necessary actions like re-registering or removing them from the inventory.

Monitor VMware VDI

Keep VMware virtual desktops and remote workstations operating efficiently by monitoring VMware Horizon using Site24x7. Stay on top of your virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) by monitoring the health and performance of desktop pools, application pools, and virtual machines (VMs). Avoid resource contention and optimize resource allocation to ensure an accurate capacity planning.

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Hear it from our customer

We find Site24x7 very useful in the business aspect as it gives us complete control and visibility into all aspects of our application landscape and technical infrastructure. The support team has been very helpful in fixing our issues and implementing feature requests. The integration options into our CI/CD toolchain, processes, and status communication to our users are excellent.

Torsten Reschke

System Engineer, Thieme Group

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Why Site24x7 is the best VMware monitoring tool?

Site24x7 offers a robust monitoring tool to satiate all your VM monitoring needs. With features like intuitive dashboards, comprehensive reports, trend forecasting, and extensive alerting capabilities, detect and remediate anomalies better.

Metric-level Thresholds

Define thresholds for various critical performance metrics.

AI-powered Forecasting

Predict weekly VM and datastore space metrics trends with AI- and ML-driven insights.

Expansive Reports

Generate and analyze top N and bottom N reports on various VMware resources based on their key metrics.

Third-party Integrations

Manage incidents with third-party service, including team software like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, etc.

Proactive Alerting

Get alerted through your mode of choice--SMS, emails, voice calls, push notifications, and RSS feeds.

Dashboards

Interactive graphs with real-time performance metrics of virtual resources for complete vSphere monitoring. Also, personalize your monitoring experience by customizing them for your needs.

Plugins

Monitor Apache Tomcat, MySQL, and over 100 other applications running on your VMs via integrations.

Mobile App

Monitor your virtual resources anywhere, anytime via Android and iOS apps.

Setting up VMware monitoring is easy

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Install

Install an On-Premise Poller on any network that has access to your virtual infrastructure.

Monitor

Auto discover and monitor your virtual environment.

Overview of VMware monitoring

What is VMware vSphere?

VMware vSphere is VMware's server virtualization product. It provides a user-friendly platform for implementing and managing virtual machines (VMs) on servers. It includes essential components such as vCenter, ESXi/ESXi hosts, VMs, datastores, and resource pools that work together to ensure the smooth operation of virtual servers, keeping them up and running efficiently.

What is the difference between VMware and vSphere?

VMware is a cloud computing and virtualization technology company that offers a suite of solutions for modern apps, multi-cloud, and digital workspaces. One of the products in their portfolio is vSphere, which is a server virtualization product specifically designed for implementing and managing virtual machines (VMs). vSphere serves as a powerful tool within VMware's comprehensive range of offerings.

What is VMware monitoring?

VMware monitoring is an IT process that involves monitoring different VMware resources for their availability, uptime, and performance. These VMware resources include components like vCenter, hypervisors such as ESX/ESXi hosts, VMs, data stores, resource pools, snapshots, and other hardware and software components that reside in a VMware environment.

How do I monitor my VM performance?

You can monitor the performance of your VMs using a VM performance monitoring tool like Site24x7. With Site24x7, you can monitor the VMs across virtualization platforms and your hybrid cloud. To monitor VMware VMs, install the Site24x7 On-Premise Poller, then add the VMware ESX/ESXi host associated with your VM for monitoring by providing the necessary credentials.

As the VMs are discovered and auto-added for monitoring, Site24x7 will start collecting VM performance data from VMware APIs and provide more monitoring insights than what the vSphere client provides. You can obtain various VM details and metrics, like space, CPU, network, memory, and disk utilization. You can also obtain VM space predictions powered by AI.

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