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| Nov 2, 2007 -
Managing virtual servers has rapidly become a challenge. eG Innovations has developed a monitoring and management platform tailored for VMware-based environments. The eG Monitor for VMware Infrastructures provides a real-time performance view of virtual machine environments. “There has been an explosion in the virtualization industry that has made provisioning a lot easier, but the monitoring and management of those virtualized environments has been lacking,” says Bala Murugan Vaidhinathan, chief architect at eG. The eG Monitor offers a comprehensive view of the VMware ESX Server, including performance of the VM kernel, console OS, and guests. The platform provides an “outside view” of each virtualized guest's performance and an “inside view” that details user activity, resource allocation, and the application mix running on guests. “We essentially have a methodology where we collect the statistics from the virtualized environment, and on top of that, we enhance the information with data we collect from each and every guest operating system running on top of the host,” Vaidhinathan says. Having a view inside the virtualized environment and host system can allow users to react proactively to troubleshoot problems. Using the eG Monitor, a user can pinpoint the processes within the specific guest that is causing a CPU drain, for example, and measures can be taken to try and alleviate the problem, according to Vaidhinathan. Development of the eG Monitor was built on years of experience eG Innovations has had in providing monitoring and management tools for terminal services-based environments. Issues related to centralized management of numerous remote applications and desktops found in Citrix environments, are applicable to those of managing and monitoring multiple virtual machines by a central host system, Vaidhinathan says. The eG Monitor is compatible with VMware VMotion Live Migration technology. The monitor determines the dependency of the virtual machines to physical machines dynamically. A root-cause diagnostic engine analyzes results to pinpoint where problem areas in the infrastructure lie. |
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