IBM SmartCloud Monitoring

IBM® SmartCloud™ Monitoring monitors the health and performance of a private cloud infrastructure, including environments containing both physical and virtualized components. This software provides the tools needed to assess current health and capacity and model expansion, as needed.

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IBM SmartCloud Monitoring provides:

  • Visibility into the cloud infrastructure including environments containing both physical and virtualized components.
  • Monitoring of heterogeneous environments for visibility and control into all areas of the infrastructure—physical, virtual and cloud.
  • What-if capacity analysis designed to model changes, reduce risk, improve availability and lower energy and server costs.
  • Policy-driven analytics for intelligent workload placement.

Visibility into the cloud infrastructure

  • Includes integrated contextual views of health and performance in the complete context of the virtual environment.
  • Provides real time, proactive and predictive alerts.
  • Displays historical data side by side so you can spot resource usage trends and quickly identify problems.

Monitoring of heterogeneous environments

  • Includes alerts, best practices, expert advice and workflows for detecting performance problems and identifying their sources.
  • Provides an integrated Web 2.0 dashboard. This integrated view of server, storage and network components shows physical and virtual performance, VMware cluster topology, and configuration change history.
  • Provides operational workspaces and reports.
  • Supports dynamic thresholding, which helps operators perform manual threshold management more quickly. Now you can identify performance problems before they lead to service interruptions.
  • Supports predictive trending. You get advanced warning when critical resources are near capacity in dynamic virtualized environments so you can provision additional physical resources before resource contention issues arise.

What-if capacity analysis

  • Predicts physical and virtual resource capacity bottlenecks and trends.
  • Helps administrators model expansions and cloud migrations with real historical data and benchmarks, which can increase business agility while reducing risk.
  • Generates policy-driven capacity analysis and reports providing detailed optimization guidance, customized for the user’s environment. They allow for more efficient use of the existing cloud infrastructure.

Policy-driven analytics

  • Supports right-sizing of virtual machines, based on actual performance data.
  • Provides policy-driven workload placement for performance and security optimization.
  • Provides multiple hypervisor support including coverage for KVM, VMware, Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenApp, Cisco UCs and NetApp.
  • Features the ability to take automated remediation actions, making changes to eliminate bottlenecks before they can impact applications or users."

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“SmartCloud Monitoring allows customers an easy-to-consume, easy-to-install and configure and very robust solution, providing monitoring as well as analytics and capacity planning for their virtualized and cloud environments.”

Dan Kern, Prolifics

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IBM SmartCloud Monitoring, Version 7.1

IBM SmartCloud Monitoring V7.1 is a bundle of established IBM® Tivoli® infrastructure management products, including IBM Tivoli Monitoring and IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments. This software delivers dynamic usage trending and health alerts for pooled hardware resources in the cloud infrastructure. The software includes sophisticated analytics, and capacity reporting and planning tools. You use these tools to ensure that the cloud is handling workloads quickly and efficiently.

This product includes IBM Tivoli Monitoring and the following IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments components: Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machines agent, NetApp Storage agent, Network Devices agent, VMware VI agent, Virtual Environments Dashboard, Virtual Environments Performance and Capacity Management Reports, and Capacity Planner for Virtual Environments.

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    Gain Visibility to Cloud and Optimize Workloads

    As more and more environments are moving toward virtualization, one common challenge has emerged—how to achieve the necessary visibility and control of a virtual infrastructure when managing a private cloud. Marvin Goodman and Ben Stern talk about how IT can overcome this challenge and manage a cloud or virtualized environment for optimized workload and superior performance in this 30 minute webcast.

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