SolarWinds Virtual & Server Profiler

Virtualisation software frees operating systems from underlying computer hardware, so one physical server can host multiple operating systems, multiple versions of those operating systems, map to limitless external data stores, and offer an endless variety of applications. The benefit of virtualisation is a dynamic and flexible data center. There's a catch, of course: If virtualisation management isn't your strong suit, VMs can spiral out of control and put data at risk.

With VMs being reallocated and reprovisioned on the fly continuously, networks are impacted, necessitating a tool that can provide visibility. Tek-Tools Virtual Profiler provides agentless, cross-domain visibility, management, and intelligence from applications through servers, network, and storage. Virtual Profiler allows organisations to reclaim the visibility into their IT environments that was lost when OSs were decoupled from physical servers via virtualisation. Profiler enables users to visualise and manage both physical and virtual systems from a single console, using a unified view of the entire environment, to track and respond to utilisation of physical resources and offer predictive alerting.

Virtualisation increases management complexity. The deployment of server virtualisation has led to the creation of multiple, heterogeneous, server virtualisation environments within a single IT infrastructure, and led organizations to increasingly rely on networked storage due to the mobility of VMs between physical servers. Management and visibility issues come with heterogeneity. Organizations with heterogeneous server environments experience server sprawl, configuration workload changes, difficulties in reporting, and staff skill set limitations.

Profiler's robust monitoring and reporting capabilities enhance control over virtualised environments. Profiler enables users to maximise availability, track system configurations, and manage the utilisation of system components such as processor, memory, and hard disks, helping lower costs and increase IT agility. Profiler is designed to be tailored to the needs of any size business, and it can be integrated seamlessly into many industry-leading enterprise-management solutions.

Key pain points of virtualisation are capacity planning and management, server consolidation, performance monitoring and reporting, forecasting and trending, and end-to-end data path mapping. These new business needs require tools that are designed to help address the needs of virtualised environments.

Profiler's intuitive user interfaces and a standards-based design contribute to ease of use and enhance the environment's ability to integrate into other environments. Capabilities are augmented by a number of simple-to-use, fully integrated modules for storage, backup, servers, and applications.

KEY FEATURES

• Tools for virtualizing your existing physical servers
• Auto-discovery
• Capacity planning
• Performance monitoring on ESX hosts & VM guests
• Flexible performance reporting mixing ESX hosts and VM guests in a single report as needed
• VMDK file utilization
• Storage utilization trending & forecasting at the VMDK level
• Storage mapping to SAN devices (Fibre Channel switches, arrays)
• Real-time & historical analysis
• Alerting
• VMware management