• Monitor VMware® ESX host servers and guest virtual machine instances
• Track virtual machine (VM) availability and performance, including key metrics such as CPU, memory, disk space, and network bandwidth
• Monitor key VirtualCenter statistics to ensure that your virtualization environment is running smoothly
• Automatically discover, identify, and monitor new virtual machines added to any VMware ESX Server
• Leverage out-of-the-box VM reports
• Maintain VM performance using built-in alerts to receive instant notification of VM-related issues

Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) provides deep visibility into virtualization environments to monitor virtual machine availability and performance. With Orion NPM, you can monitor VMware ESX Servers, as well as guest virtual machine instances.

VMware Virtualization Monitoring

Orion NPM communicates directly with VMware ESX Servers to determine how the host ESX Server is performing and to gauge the health of individual virtual machines. Orion NPM reads host MIB information from each VMware ESX Server and its corresponding virtual machines, detailing statistics such as CPU and memory utilization, disk usage, guest OS, network usage, and much more.

By monitoring specific virtual resources, Orion NPM can alert you to a virtual machine that is using excessive CPU resources or is approaching its allocated memory limit. This enables you to ensure that applications are performing well and that the virtual and physical resources on the server are optimized.

VMware VirtualCenter Monitoring
In addition to monitoring VMware ESX Servers and the associated virtual machines, Orion NPM also monitors key performance statistics on the VMware VirtualCenter Server. Gaining insight into the performance and availability of VirtualCenter is a critical component to ensuring that your virtualization environment is running smoothly.

Virtualization Monitoring using Orion Application Performance Monitor

Orion NPM leverages the optional Orion Application Performance Monitor (APM) module to monitor application and server information running on virtual machines. Orion APM monitors end-user experiences against web applications to check and verify the response time of HTML pages and monitors any port on the network.

Many network engineers use end-user experience response time monitoring to ensure that end users are not impacted when applications move from physical servers to virtual ones. Orion APM recognizes virtual machines seamlessly, delivering application performance monitoring for business-critical services, including Microsoft® Exchange, Lotus® Notes, SAP®, Apache®, Active Directory®, Microsoft IIS, SQL Server, and much more.

ESX Virtual Machine Auto-summary
Orion NPM automatically discovers new virtual machines added to any VMware ESX host server. When virtual resources are constantly moving, it is critical to have near real-time information about how resources are allocated to determine the best possible configuration. In addition to detailed virtual machine statistics, Orion NPM also leverages the Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) module to analyze the traffic to or from any virtual machine communicating on the network, providing visibility into how network traffic is behaving.

Alerting and Reporting with Virtualization
Orion NPM’s native alerting and reporting capabilities seamlessly extend to virtual machines. With just a few clicks, alert thresholds can be set up for virtual machines, such as notification when memory usage approaches its maximum allocation. Additionally, custom reports can easily be created to detail virtual machine activity over any period of time. These reports serve as valuable resources for capacity planning, future infrastructure changes, or measuring virtualization efficiency.

"We didn't have to pay for hours and hours of training to use or deploy [Orion], which has significantly impacted our bottom line."

— Gerald Sherril, Operations Manager, FiberCloud

 

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