XenServer (Citrix Hypervisor) Monitoring Software for Hosts, Pools and VMs

For any workload, XenServer performance can impact VM performance and in turn, application performance. With eG Enterprise you get correlated visibility into XenServer, VM and application performance, so you can reduce MTTR and optimize your infrastructure.

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What is XenServer monitoring? (XenServer, formerly Citrix Hypervisor)

XenServer - formerly known as the Citrix Hypervisor and Citrix XenServer - is an open-source platform for desktop, server, and cloud virtualization infrastructures. XenServer enables organizations of any size or type to consolidate and transform compute resources into virtual workloads for today's data center requirements.

Why monitor
XenServer?

  • XenServers host many business-critical applications. Failure or slowness of a XenServer affects the performance of all VMs hosted on it. So, the impact of failure or slowness is severe.
  • A XenServer has different components that need to work well. Processors, memory, disk partitions, network interfaces and hardware have to be managed. Clustering of VMs into pools and dynamic migration also needs to be tracked and monitored.
  • For fast problem diagnosis, it is important to triage a problem and determine the root-cause: is it the XenServer, storage, the virtual network, or the VMs that are causing the issue?
XenServers

Common XenServer performance problems

  • Is the hardware working properly?
  • Is there sufficient CPU capacity?
  • Is memory overcommitted? Is the hypervisor seeing memory pressure?
  • Is disk latency within acceptable limits?
  • Which VMs are taking more resources compared to others?

How many guest VMs are running on each hypervisor: what is the IP address of each of guests?
What is the CPU utilization and which of the guest VMs is taking up excessive CPU?

  • Which application(s) running on each of the guest VMs is taking CPU, memory, and disk resources?
  • Which of the guests is seeing the highest and lowest network traffic?
  • Is there excessive queuing for disk access on any of the guest VMs?
  • Analyze historical user trends and resource utilization patterns
  • Use built-in capacity planning reports to forecast how many more VMs can be added to each hypervisor host
  • Get insights for VM right-sizing and optimization
  • Be well-informed for planning capacity upgrades and infrastructure scaling
  • Track and fix VM sprawl

Dashboards and reports

Citrix Virtual Desktops performance monitoring dashboards
100% web-based monitoring console (HTTP/S)
Virtual Desktops baselining and performance monitoring
Automatic baselining with self-learning thresholds
Virtual Desktops performance reporting
Out-of-the-box reports for historical data analytics
Virtual Desktops slow logon reporting
Track slow logon trends over time
XenApp resource usage monitoring
Identify resource-intensive sessions
Virtual Desktops user experience monitoring
At a glance, view user experience for all users
Virtual Desktops logon simulator
Built-in Citrix logon simulator
XenApp virtualization monitoring
Deep-dive visibility into virtual desktops
Virtual Desktops monitoring on Citrix Cloud
Monitor the Citrix Cloud Delivery Controller
Virtual Desktops root cause diagnosis
End-to-end service topology and root cause diagnosis
Virtual Desktops user activity monitoring
User active time and idle reporting
Virtual Desktops capacity planning
Capacity planning and right-sizing insight

XenServer and virtual desktop workloads

Go beyond Citrix XenCenter with end-to-end visibility across heterogeneous infrastructures and comprehensive
operating system metrics from every VM guest

  • Monitor CPU, memory, disk space, handles, and network traffic inside every VM
  • Monitor XenServer performance and resource usage, and right-size VMs
  • Get 360-degree visibility of virtual application and desktop performance
  • Get user experience insights, code level visibility, top queries and more
  • Auto-correlate application, desktop, VM, and hypervisor performance to identify where bottlenecks are

Inside-and-outside VM monitoring and root cause

eG Innovations provides the only inside and outside monitoring of VMs

Other hypervisors

Truly virtualization-aware root-cause diagnosis technology

  • Get complete, 360° performance visibility of the Citrix stack and beyond - network, applications, storage, databases.
  • Pre-emptively detect performance issues before users notice, using automatic baselining of normal application and system performance and usage.
  • Auto-discover inter-application, application to VM and VM to physical machine dependencies in real-time
  • Patented auto-correlation technology analyzes dependencies and helps pinpoint where the root cause of issues lies: network, database, XenServer, storage, VM etc.

What eG Enterprise monitors (pools, hosts, storage repositories, VMs)

  • Total Performance Visibility across the Citrix infrastructure
    Monitor the performance of every layer, every tier of the end-to-end service so you know what's working and what's not
  • Deep Insights into Virtual Application Performance
    In-depth visibility inside each application's performance so you know how the application is performing, how its virtual machine is performing and how the hypervisor it is hosted on is performing
  • Pro-Active Detection and Resolution of Performance Issues
    Auto-baseline performance and usage of your XenServer and VMs and get proactive alerts when any abnormality is detected. Automatically correlate across metrics from different tiers to identify and fix issues before users call
  • Powerful Reporting
    Identify bottlenecks, top resource consuming applications and VMs to right-size your environment for maximum ROI

Explore Citrix monitoring solutions for

Virtual Apps | Virtual Desktops | XenMobile | NetScaler | StoreFront | PVS | Citrix Cloud | SCOM Management Pack

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