vOPS Server Enterprise

Performance Monitoring, Capacity Planning and Reporting for VMs, the Guest OS, and Non-Virtualized Servers

vOPS™ Server Enterprise, comprised of vFoglight® and vOPS™ Server Standard, speeds and simplifies issue resolution across every level of infrastructure. It includes virtual machine performance monitoring, capacity planning, optimization, and chargeback capabilities in a highly configurable solution that can scale to tens of thousands of VMs.

vOPS Server Enterprise provides:

  • Deep real-time monitoring for VMs, non-virtualized servers, guest OS, and applications such as SQL Server, Active Directory and Exchange 
  • User-defined automation and workflows
  • Robust reporting configurability
  • Full feature extensibility through scripting

vOPS Server Enterprise is developed by VKernel, a division of Quest Software.

Features

Capacity Planning

  • Identify available slots to safely deploy additional VMs
  • Predict resource exhaustion in VMs
  • Forecast future hardware needs and timeframes

Performance Monitoring

  • Monitor real-time performance
  • Overlay events on system performance to detect the cause of an issue
  • Gain visibility into operating systems in non-virtualized servers, the guest OS, and underlying physical server hardware
  • Detect existing and emerging VM performance issues as well as root cause and impact
  • Resolve VM performance issues quickly

Configuration Management

  • Track and query the changes that occur in a virtualized environment
  • Assess the impact of changes on performance and capacity
  • Gauge the configuration drift of VMs in the environment

Resource Optimization

  • Size VM resource allocations correctly
  • Identify and remove data waste files and idle VMs
  • Make changes quickly with minimal overhead

Application Monitoring

  • Use application monitoring for Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance and availability problems in both physical and virtual environments

Cost Visibility, Reporting, and Chargeback

  • Run queries and generate operational reports
  • Create overview/management-level reports and, if applicable, chargeback or other cost reports
  • Distribute reports, cost info, and other exported system data securely  
  • Write extensible custom reports and dashboards with scripting
  • Set alerts based on custom service levels
  • Automate cost calculation for server, storage, and network hardware

Workflow Automation

  • Create customized, automated workflows
  • Embed PowerShell scripts into workflows

Other

  • Use custom business views to organize and manage virtual objects
  • Create dynamic rules-based business views
  • Access data and functionality through RESTful API
  • Integrate SCOM alerting
  • Scale to manage up to tens of thousands of VMs
  • Extend product capabilities through scripting

Sys Reqs

vOPS Server Enterprise is a bundle comprised of  vOPS Server Standard and vFoglight.

VKernel vOPS Server Standard is plug-and-play and you can be up and running in 20 minutes. The second component, vFoglight, uses an Installer that an engineer will help assist while installing and configuring this piece of the bundle.

The following are required to install vOPS Server  Enterprise:

  • Hardware Platform: x86 and x64
  • Database Repository: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server
  • Operating Systems: Windows Server (2003, 2008 R2), Linux (Cent OS, RH Ent, Oracle, SUSE), Solaris
  • Hypervisors: VMware vCenter 2.5x and vSphere 4.0-5.0, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
  • CPU, memory and storage to be determined by VKernel Engineer during installation

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