Monitoring Nutanix Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Nutanix Performance Monitoring

The concept of web-scale IT has caught up with enterprises that are beginning to grow their IT infrastructure and operations, and the adoption of hyper-converged infrastructure has made it easy to scale with increased flexibility, easier management, and lesser CAPEX costs.

Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform converges computing and storage into a hardware appliance that runs virtual workloads using the native Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor, VMWare vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Citrix XenServer. This distributed computing architecture gives the ability to add needed resources on-demand.

Challenges

As with any hardware infrastructure, Nutanix nodes experience performance bottlenecks, and IT staff needs to keep constant vigil on the hyper-converged framework, identify bottlenecks and fix issues.

Nutanix Prism management software gives monitoring insight into the Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor environment. But Prism is not sufficient for organizations that virtualize their Nutanix infrastructure on VMware, Hyper-V, or XenServer. Plus, it is important to monitor actual application workloads that are running on Nutanix so the application architects and service owners can avoid performance degradation for end-users.

Key Features of eG Enterprise

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  Unified Infrastructure Monitoring from a Single Tool

  eG Enterprise delivers total performance visibility throughout your Nutanix infrastructure including key components, such as hypervisor, virtual machines, operating system, server resources (memory, CPU, etc.) and storage disks, clusters, and containers managed by Nutanix.

  Key features:

  • Automatically discovers your Nutanix stack and supported infrastructure
  • Dynamically maps applications running on virtual machines (VM) to Nutanix infrastructure dependencies (application-to-VM and VM-to-hypervisor)
  • Correlates application and virtualization performance, and pinpoints the root cause of performance problems.

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  Monitoring Nutanix Acropolis

  eG Enterprise uses Nutanix REST API to interact with Prism software to collect performance metrics of Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor, the controller VM (CVM) and other virtual machines running on Acropolis. eG Enterprise adopts an agentless monitoring approach leveraging its out-of-the-box integration with Nutanix.

  • Monitor health and powered-on state of Acropolis virtual machines
  • Track resource utilization metrics and be the first to know when VMs run out of capacity
  • Capture usage trends inside the VM, and identify which applications are consuming more resources
  • Get alerted to configuration changes in the Nutanix infrastructure
  • Get out-of-the-box reports on Acropolis performance and analyze trends over time

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  Capacity Planning and Virtualization Right-Sizing

  Leverage built-in reports in eG Enterprise to analyze how much resources are being consumed by the virtual machines (outside view of VM), and what application workload and processes are hogging resources within the VMs (inside view of VM). Perform ‘what-if’ analysis and determine how many more VMs can be supported on each host and when you will need to invest in additional Nutanix nodes based on business demand.

  Whether you are using Nutanix on the KVM-based Acropolis hypervisor, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Citrix XenServer, eG Enterprise has got you covered.

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  Application-Aware Virtualization Monitoring

  eG Enterprise specializes in delivering deep performance diagnosis and analytical insights for 180+ packaged applications out of the box. Using its correlative intelligence, eG Enterprise automatically maps and lets you visualize your application delivery stream—from the application to VM to storage clusters. Easy drill-downs and intuitive dashboards allow you to identify bottlenecks in just a few clicks.

  Supported applications include Citrix, SAP, Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics, Exchange, Active Directory, and more. See all supported technologies.

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  Key Nutanix Performance Questions Answered

  • Are Nutanix nodes properly sized in the Nutanix architecture?
  • Which VMs are powered on, which are not?
  • How is the resource allocation in the Nutanix cluster?
  • Which VMs are causing most IOPS and why?
  • What are the top processes consuming high CPU inside the VMs?
  • What is the storage pool disk utilization and how much free space is left?
  • Are Nutanix Prism services up and available?

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Key Benefits

• Eliminate the need to have different point solutions for each tier of the hyper-converged architecture
• Get Insights to optimize and right-size your Nutanix infrastructure
• Avoid downtime and improve datacenter efficiency
• Invest wisely, based on understanding where real bottlenecks are
• Reduce cost and complexity of IT operations management

Why eG? One Monitor to Manage All of IT.

• eG Enterprise is the only single pane-of-glass, virtualization-aware, auto-diagnostic IT infrastructure performance monitor
• Gain actionable answers to performance issues, wherever they originate, from application code to bare metal
• Understand the impact of infrastructure issues on application performance and user experience
• Unify IT performance monitoring, alerting, diagnosing, reporting, and capacity planning in a single console
• Ensure a great user experience and dramatically improve IT efficiency
• Benefit from flexible deployment options (on-premises and SaaS) and IT monitoring approaches (agentless and agent-based)