vOPS Server Enterprise

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

vOPS Server Enterprise is a virtual machine manager, that extends the performance, capacity and configuraition management capabilities in vOPS Server Standard with:

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

With these advanced features, vOPS Server Enterprise can be tailored to any needs within a virtualized data center and is able to scale to tens of thousands of VMs.

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Capacity Planning

Identify available slots to safely deploy additional VMs
Predict resource exhaustion in VMs
Model hardware changes and forecast future purchasing needs

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 with automation

Configuration Management

Track and query the changes that occur in a virtualized environment
Automatically roll back changes which have caused performance issues
Gauge the configuration drift of VMs in the environment

Resource Optimization

Size VM resource allocations correctly with automation
Identify and remove data waste files and idle VMs with automation
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

Life Cycle Management

Reserve capacity on server and storage hardware for VM deployments
Automatically deploy new VMs into an environment
Automatically decommission VMs and remove unnecessary VM files

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.

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.x, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
CPU, memory and storage to be determined by Dell Engineer during installation