Informer Series Management Solutions: Virtual Operations Center

Protect against virtual sprawl

Virtual Sprawl

Virtual systems have been rapidly adopted over the past 5 years. The ease at which you can create a new VM from a template is down to 3 clicks. With this ease of creation, Virtual Sprawl has become rampant in organizations of all sizes. Administrators are now faced with monitoring all the resources used by individual virtual machines and the hosts they run on. Enterprise level monitoring software can help administrators, but cost from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars. For a large number of businesses, the cost is out of the range of their budgets. Milton Security Group recognized this gap and has developed a low cost solution with many of the same features of more expensive enterprise level monitoring software.

Virtual Environment Visibility

Virtual Operations Center (VOC) shows real-time resource consumption and workload data for all virtual machines, hosts, clusters, and datastores on all vCenter servers in a centralized location. Instantly discover cpu, memory, and datastore.

Dashboard

VOC displays the top resource consumers, based on user-defined settings, as well as a list of virtual machines with normal operation parameters. Virtual machines that experience health issues are highlighted based on their level of danger.

Centralized Monitoring

VOC is an enterprise-class application that provides access to crucial resources and performance data without affecting vCenter or ESX Host performance or access policies. It provides access to the infrastructure's performance data by utilizing the abilities inherent in VMware PowerCLI. VOC provides real-time access to infrastructure's disk space, disk issues, and datastore information.

Notifications

VOC has prebuilt notifications including: Disk Space, VM Status, CPU usage, Memory, and Snapshot Age.

Next Steps:

Up to 5 server deployment

$299.00

Requirements:

Supported VM Environments:

VMWare ESX 3.5
VMWare vShpere 4.x

Server Requirements:

(* items will be installed if missing)

Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 2008 R2
.NET 4.0 *
Powershell 1.0 *
PowerCLI *
MySQL .Net Connector *

Client Requirements:

IE 9+, Safari 5+, Chrome 13

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