What's new?
- Capacity planning analysis & reports
- Integrated Web 2.0 dashboard
- Broad Hypervisor support
- Support for physical server, storage and network elements
- Predictive thresholds
IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring for Virtual Environments (formerly named IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers) is designed to address the specific challenges in managing a virtual environment. It provides the tools to ensure the health, performance and capacity of virtual environment, while helping maximize IT cost savings.
- Capacity planning and reporting are vital to optimizing the virtual environment; i.e. improving density and workload placement decisions.
- Predictive alerts identify resources that are trending negatively, and threatening to run out of capacity, days and weeks in advance.
- In addition, availability monitoring can be used to help find problems with critical resources and alert operations teams before users are adversely affected.
Multiple hypervisor coverage:
A large percentage of customers have deployed more than one hypervisor in their data center, and this percentage will likely grow as hypervisor technologies continue to mature. IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments provides broad hypervisor coverage to help reduce the cost of managing multiple hypervisors. This offering includes the following agents for comprehensive monitoring of virtual environments:
Virtual Infrastructure Agent (VI): Remote performance and availability monitoring of VMware ESX, ESXi and vCenter Server environments. This agent has been certified by VMware in the VMware Ready program.
KVM Agent: Remote performance and availability monitoring to visualize availability, performance and capacity trends for Kernel Based Virtual Machines and hosts. This agent remotely monitors KVM by connecting to each host.
Citrix XenServer Agent: Remote performance and availability monitoring for XenServer pools, hosts and virtual machines to include pool master transitions and XenServer license expiration notifications. Each agent instance connects to a XenServer™ Pool containing 1 to 16 XenServer™ hypervisors or optionally a stand-alone XenServer™ hypervisor. This agent has been certified by Citrix in the Citrix Ready program.
Citrix XenApp Agent: Monitoring of Citrix XenApp environments. This agent is installed on the server or virtual machine running Citrix XenApp.
Citrix XenDesktop Agent: Performance and Availability monitoring for Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop infrastructure.
NetApp Storage Agent: Remote performance and availability monitoring to visualize capacity, latency, and throughput performance metrics of NetApp and IBM N series storage systems. This agent monitors the DataFabric Manager Server (DFM) and remotely connects to the DFM server to obtain performance metrics.
Cisco UCS Agent: Performance and availability monitoring of key components in a Cisco UCS environment, including chassis, blades and network fabric, featuring environment and component health scores, power and cooling metrics, and key configuration information. Customers deploying a UCS system as a special-purpose application delivery platform, such as a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure host, can use one tool set to monitor, report, and plan the future health of the UCS environment.
The Network Devices agent: This agent monitors SNMP-enabled devices. The agent identifies and notifies you of common network problems as reported by SNMP MIB-II-enabled devices. The software includes the following features: SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, SNMPv3, MIB-II network monitoring standards, historical data collection for further analysis, and automatic sampling of data and notification when certain conditions occur.
Each of these agents includes best-practice situations and expert advice, customized workspaces, historical data gathering and reporting. In addition, these agents can send application-specific events to IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console®. With these powerful capabilities, you can more effectively and efficiently manage their complete, end-to-end infrastructure from a single customizable interface.
