Monitoring, Management, & Performance

eG VM Monitor Listing updated: April 1, 2010

The eG VM Monitor offers an outside view of how the VMs are using a physical server, and an inside view of what is happening inside a VM, using In-N-Out monitoring technology. This technology offers insights into the cause of performance problems in a virtual infrastructure.

A single agent for monitoring the ESX server and all its VMs. The agent license is independent of the number of VMs on an ESX server or the hardware capabilities of the server (i.e., number of processors, sockets, etc.). Support for agent-based and agentless monitoring of VMware infrastructures. And more...

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  • Users' Rating: 4.68 [25 votes] - Vote
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VMLogix LabManager 3.8 Listing updated: February 23, 2010

VMLogix LabManager 3.8 integrates with the world’s leading virtualization platforms to empower software development and test, support and help desk services, training and education, and sales demonstrations teams so they can build, snapshot, share and deploy production-like environments on-demand. Using advanced automation capabilities, advanced team management and seamless integrations with leading build and test management solutions from HP and IBM, companies can dramatically reduce the manual effort, time and IT resources required to develop, maintain and support higher quality software applications. With VMLogix LabManager, organizations also can avoid being locked into a single virtualization platform and manage multiple virtualization platforms from companies like Citrix, Microsoft and VMware through a single console.
  • Users' Rating: 4.33 [6 votes] - Vote
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IT Network Management Listing updated: June 23, 2010

Download Spiceworks' completely free IT network management software for SysAdmins and Network Administrators in small to medium businesses to manage their networks. *This is NOT a free trial, "freemium", or stripped down verision.* Spiceworks provides access to the entire software suite whether you're a one-person operation or you manage 1,000 network devices. And it's free forever - including live support and all product upgrades! In addition to a state-of-the-art network monitoring and management solution, Spiceworks software also offers free access to: a full-featured help desk, troubleshooting tools, asset management software, power management tools, and an online community of IT pros like you to answer questions, share tips, and solve IT problems. Download today - and share with your peers!
  • Users' Rating: 4 [6 votes] - Vote
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Change Reporter for VMware Listing updated: November 25, 2009

NetWrix Change Reporter for VMware audits all changes and enforces controlled change management processes across your virtual environment. This freeware tool sends a daily report pointing to every change made to your ESX servers, folders, clusters, resource pools, virtual machines, and their hardware, including previous and current ("before" and "after") configuration values.

NetWrix Change Reporter for VMware can be used to get an overview of configuration changes on a daily basis and to improve internal IT governance, prepare reports for your IT compliance auditors (such as SOX, HIPPA, GLBA and more) and finally to audit the creation of new virtual machines to prevent uncontrolled virtual machine sprawl. The commercial version with advanced functionality and technical support is available.
  • Users' Rating: 3.67 [3 votes] - Vote
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XTS Introspect Listing updated: March 16, 2009

XTS Introspect is an affordable, turnkey data warehouse reporting solution that enables advanced analysis to help you better plan, manage and audit your Citrix farm (XenApp, Presentation Server or MetaFrame XP).

Standard Edition: Perfect for documenting and analyzing configurations and farm policies. Enterprise Edition: Advanced configuration reporting including property matrix reports for easy visualization of server, application and user configurations. Includes report automation, integration with Active Directory and useful “diff” reports to quickly see where configurations have changed over time or after migration projects. Platinum Edition: In addition to the powerful configuration reporting available in Enterprise Edition, this Edition provides historical usage reporting that helps you identify trends, improve capacity planning, and eliminate unnecessary capital outlays for hardware and software licenses.

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  • Users' Rating: 3.25 [16 votes] - Vote
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AppManager Suite Listing updated: April 1, 2010

NetIQ AppManager delivers the productivity and visibility enterprises demand of their systems management solutions while providing the critical foundation needed for safely adopting and exploiting next-generation technologies, such as: VMware ESX Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server 2007, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Oracle Grid Computing, and Cisco or Nortel IP Telephony (VoIP) solutions.

The NetIQ AppManager Suite delivers systems management, including monitoring, reporting & analysis, diagnostics and resolution. It is designed to manage a variety of components – from physical hardware to server applications to end-user response time.

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  • Users' Rating: 3 [3 votes] - Vote
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Quest vFoglight Listing updated: August 30, 2010

Quest vFoglight offers unnmatched visibility to resolve VMware performance issues and drastically reduce costs. It is also the only solution on the market that provides virtual infrastructure VMware monitoring, capacity planning, chargeback, and service management through a single product.
Provides ease of use, scalability and flexibility to support all types of organizations; Delivers detailed architectural representations and out-of-the-box alerts with expert advice for reducing mean-time-to-resolution by at least 75% & Supports VMware vSphere and extends VMware vCenter Server (designated as "VMware Ready Optimized").
  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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ManageIQ Enterprise Virtualization Management Suite Listing updated: April 1, 2010

ManageIQ's Enterprise Virtualization Management Suite provides the insight, control, and automation needed to manage dynamic virtual environments. EVM Insight discovers and maintains detailed configuration information about virtual resources including hosts, vm’s, storage and virtual networks, uniquely accomplishing the task regardless of the format, guest operating system, or even the power state of a virtual machine. EVM Control provides state-based management and policy-based control for virtual assets at key operations life cycle points. EVM Control ensures the enforcement of IT standards; improves reliability and availability; and reduces risk.

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  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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Solera Networks Virtual Appliance Listing updated: June 2, 2008

With the Virtual Appliance, you can turn any server into a network packet capture and stream-to-storage appliance and use it with any number of network analysis and forensics tools to finally see what is happening on your network. The Virtual Appliance lets you see how continuous deep packet capture and stream-to-storage can benefit your organization. It includes many of the capabilities of the Solera DS hardware appliances. The Virtual Appliance lets you deploy on your hardware of choice.
  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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Advanced System Management Listing updated: May 30, 2008

CA Advanced System Management centrally manages your multi-vendor virtual server and cluster technologies. It improves operational efficiency by adapting to changing business priorities in real time by allocating and reallocating system resources based upon set business policies ensuring IT investments are optimized.

It also enables you to dynamically address changing business demands and manage the relationships between virtual and physical infrastructure components-ensuring service reliability and availability. With CA ASM, problems are prioritized based on business impact and automatically repaired to avoid outages. It offers virtualized server management, dynamic resource brokering, unified cluster management, visualization and discovery, policy-based management and performance reporting.

  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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