Vizioncore vFoglight & vControl for VMware & Hyper-v Performance Monitoring, Capacity Planning


Quest® vFoglight and vControl offer unmatched visibility and management capabilities to resolve VMware & Hyper-v 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 Virtualization management through a single product.

 

Functions of vFoglight Pro

Chargeback – The ability to allocate infrastructure costs helps you see how groups and workloads are consuming resources.

Capacity Planning – In-depth reports help you plan and manage infrastructure capacity for improved performance and better use of resources.

Third-Party Integration – Alerts from third-party systems help you bring new efficiencies and awareness to virtualization administrators.

Physical Operating System (OS) Monitoring – The ability to monitor memory, CPU, disk I/O and network I/O helps you easily understand key performance and capacity issues in the physical infrastructure and isolate the root cause of problems.

General Purpose Monitoring – Extended monitoring capabilities provide greater coverage of the infrastructure and application components.

Service Management – The ability to group VMs and components into services allows you to better align IT with the organization by measuring service levels, performing chargebacks and reporting key data to stakeholders.


Key Features in vFoglight  v6.5

  • Support for VMware and Hyper-V
  • Alert remediation and automated workflows
  • Guest process Investigation
  • Event analytics
  • Asset and configuration tracking
  • Workload migration modeling
  • Resource use management
  • Chargeback
  • Physical platform monitoring
  • Out of box integration with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
  • Support for Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange

Detailed Architectural Representations – High-level, graphical displays highlight problem areas to help you quickly diagnose and fix problems in the virtual infrastructure.

Guest Process Investigation – Visibility of all running processes helps you quickly determine which ones are impacting virtual machine (VM) performance or which VMs are not using resources effectively.

Out-of-the Box Alerts with Expert Advice – Detailed alarms and recommended actions help you accurately diagnose the root-cause of problems and resolve them fast.

Asset and Configuration Tracking – The ability to track the movement of VMs and their configuration changes from one physical server to another helps you correlate the impact those changes have on system performance and availability.

Workload Migration Modeling – Visibility of the movement of a VM from one physical system to another helps you determine the impact on resources and services.

Resource Utilization Management – Performance data provided at all levels of the virtual infrastructure helps you see and predict how efficiently capacity is used.

Management of Multiple Virtual Centers – The ability to see several virtual centers from a single interface helps you understand the entire virtual infrastructure, to reduce administration costs and minimize risk.

Reporting – Out-of-the-box reports help you plan performance enhancements and understand changes to infrastructure assets.


vControl - VMware Virtual Machine Provisioning

vControl allows self-service provisioning and virtual machine (VM) management for automated request, approval and fulfillment as well as ongoing administration to streamline the provisioning process, improve VM sprawl, and reduce administrative costs over the lifetime of VMs.

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Information

Target Business Size:
All Sizes but has a focus on SMB-Midmarket

Pricing Overview:
vEssentials Bundle is $899: Consisting of: vFoglight Pro: Monitor the performance of the virtual and physical infrastructures vConverter DR: P2V and V2V image conversion for faster adoption of virtual systems vRanger Pro: Image-based backup and recovery of all data in a virtual machine vReplicator: Image-based replication for high availability and disaster recovery vOptimizer Pro: Automated virtual storage reclamation & optimization vControl: Self-service provisioning and management for virtual machines

Supported Hypervisors:
VMware ESX(i), vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-v

Requirements:
Operating System: Windows Server 2003
Hardware Platform:x86 and x64
Database Repository
Embedded MySQL Database; Options include an external MySQL Database (5.0.27 or greater) or Oracle (9.2.x or 10.2.x), SQL Server 2003 and 2008
VirtualCenter: 2.0x and 2.5x, and vSphere 4.0
Web Browser: Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox 2