ZENOSS - Virtualization Management, Monitoring

Companies use Zenoss server and network monitoring to manage their virtualization, need end to end visibility and other operations without cumbersome legacy tools

Zenoss Enterprise combines heterogeneous management of virtual servers, guests, and workloads with comprehensive management of physical servers and network devices to provide a truly complete solution for virtualization monitoring. With a model-driven architecture, Zenoss automatically:

  • tracks configurations and relationships while
  • provides full event management,
  • virtual environment performance measurements
  • testing thresholds
  • availability reporting.

Key Features of Zenoss:

Zenoss helps you:

  • Use synthetic transactions to gather consistent service metrics
  • Identify deviations from service level expectations with predictive thresholds
  • Reduce service disruptions and mean-time to repair through root cause analysis of file system issues
  • Understand and resolve the end-to-end service impact of application, network, storage or virtual host/guest issues
  • Quickly identify storage related performance bottlenecks impacting end users
  • Understand how network stress contributes to service issues and quickly identify the underlying root cause

Zenoss: Manage Everything with a Single Product

Zenoss delivers management capabilities for the entire virtualization lifecycle – deploy, tune, and plan – for the entire stack – physical and virtual – network, server, and storage – operating system and application – with a single product.

  • Discovery and Inventory of assets (network devices, virtual hosts • and guests, physical servers, VMware data stores, network-attached storage, and more)
  • Availability & performance monitoring
  • System-wide event management in a single screen, including • real-time detection of vMotion events

Zenoss VMware & Hyper-v Management Capabilities

Zenoss delivers VMware and physical infrastructure monitoring in a single pane of glass - with a single product. The extension of the Zenoss modeling engine to the VMware VI3 and vSphere 4 infrastructure enables additional management capabilities:

  • Auto-discovery of the complete VMware infrastructure
  • Integration with VMware vCenter Server
  • Availability, performance, and event monitoring for VMware  infrastructure • ESX Servers • Virtual Machines • ESX Clusters • VMware Data Stores
  • Virtual and physical resource usage (CPU, memory, disk, etc.)
  • Power and availability status for each virtualized service
  • Real-time vMotion detection (when VMs switch ESX servers)•
  • Visibility at the crossover point between virtual and • physical environments
  • Visibility of VMware data stores and networked storage devices

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Information

Target Business Size:
Enterprise

Pricing Overview:
Subscription per managed resource. A managed resource is each virtual machine (VM) with a unique IP address is a Managed Resource or Device Silver: 250 resources $100 per resource/year Gold: 250 resources $150 per resource/year Platinum: 500 resources $180 per resource/year Prices vary by levels of support

Supported Hypervisors:
VMware ESX and vSphere 5, VMware VI3 , Microsoft Hyper-v

Requirements:
The system requirements for running the Zenoss Virtual Appliance are largely based on the requirements for running the VM Player itself. A typical host system used for a VMware installation should meet these specifications:

• Dual core system

• Minimum RAM - 1.5GB

• Available disk space - 4GB