| Features | Advantages | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Capacity planning analysis and reports | Provides recommendations on workload placement while adhering to co-location policies. Provides benchmarking data, results simulation, and policy framework. | Customers can right-size their virtual environment, balance workloads, and optimize or increase the density of their virtual environments. Helps reduce energy and server costs via efficient, optimized consolidation. Improves availability by preventing resource contention. |
| Integrated web 2.0 dashboard | Provides out-of-the-box integrated view of server, storage, and network components, showing physical and virtual performance and configuration change history. | Allows for easier problem determination in complex VMware environments |
| Dynamic thresholding | Customers can change monitoring thresholds dynamically, deriving baselines from actual performance data. Dynamic thresholds also provide customers with the benefit of being alerted when status changes from normal, whether a threshold has been violated or not. | Helps to respond proactively to problems in the environment, spotting performance problems before they lead to service interruptions. |
| Predictive trending | Advance warning when critical resources near capacity in dynamic virtualized environments | Just in time advanced notification to provision additional physical resources |
| Multiple hypervisor support | Coverage for KVM, VMware, Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenDesktop Citrix XenApp, Cisco UCS, NetApp. Additional hypervisor coverage for Hyper-V and PowerVM and z/VM is available in ITCAM for Microsoft Applications, ITM and OMEGAMON for z/VM respectively. | Broad platform coverage reduces labor and software costs of managing multiple hypervisors. |
| Ensure Compliance to IT and Business Rules | Policy based framework for ensuring compliance against business and technical policies (co-location/anti-location, bursty, non-burst workloads, workload importance, etc.). Share and download policy templates on the Service Management Connect (SMC) community. | Policy-driven workload optimization ensures control and compliance. |
| Proactive Take-Actions | Eliminate manual operations by Proactive Take-Actions based on situations/events (including forecasting and trending information). | Make changes to eliminate bottlenecks well before applications or users are impacted. |
| Integrate with existing Enterprise Management Solutions | Integrate with existing Enterprise Management solutions (Event management, Service Desk, Change Management) | Reduced cost for manual integration into existing systems. |
| Scalability | ITM for Virtual Environments is designed to monitor very large environments | Reduces management infrastructure software, labor and hardware costs. |
Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments
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