Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments

Maximize density of your virtual environment while ensuring high availability of critical workloads.

IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring for Virtual Servers provides monitoring of performance & availability for multiple hypervisors and provides the following benefits:

  • Reduced labor costs spent on capacity analysis and planning through enhanced Cognos® based what-if analysis.
  • Reduced time for problem resolution through launch in context problem identification.
  • Improved application availability, using pro-active problem identification features such as predictive trending and using historical baselines for performance alerts.
  • Reduction in hardware costs by improving utilization and deferring hardware purchases.
  • Low TCO by providing capacity planning, dynamic thresholding, predictive trending, reporting and performance & availability monitoring in one tool.

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FeaturesAdvantagesBenefits
Capacity planning analysis and reports Provides recommendations on workload placement while adhering to co-location policies. Provides benchmarking data, results simulation, and policy framework. Customers can right-size their virtual environment, balance workloads, and optimize or increase the density of their virtual environments. Helps reduce energy and server costs via efficient, optimized consolidation. Improves availability by preventing resource contention.
Integrated web 2.0 dashboard Provides out-of-the-box integrated view of server, storage, and network components, showing physical and virtual performance and configuration change history. Allows for easier problem determination in complex VMware environments
Dynamic thresholding Customers can change monitoring thresholds dynamically, deriving baselines from actual performance data. Dynamic thresholds also provide customers with the benefit of being alerted when status changes from normal, whether a threshold has been violated or not. Helps to respond proactively to problems in the environment, spotting performance problems before they lead to service interruptions.
Predictive trending Advance warning when critical resources near capacity in dynamic virtualized environments Just in time advanced notification to provision additional physical resources
Multiple hypervisor support Coverage for KVM, VMware, Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenDesktop Citrix XenApp, Cisco UCS, NetApp. Additional hypervisor coverage for Hyper-V and PowerVM and z/VM is available in ITCAM for Microsoft Applications, ITM and OMEGAMON for z/VM respectively. Broad platform coverage reduces labor and software costs of managing multiple hypervisors.
Ensure Compliance to IT and Business Rules Policy based framework for ensuring compliance against business and technical policies (co-location/anti-location, bursty, non-burst workloads, workload importance, etc.). Share and download policy templates on the Service Management Connect (SMC) community. Policy-driven workload optimization ensures control and compliance.
Proactive Take-Actions Eliminate manual operations by Proactive Take-Actions based on situations/events (including forecasting and trending information). Make changes to eliminate bottlenecks well before applications or users are impacted.
Integrate with existing Enterprise Management Solutions Integrate with existing Enterprise Management solutions (Event management, Service Desk, Change Management) Reduced cost for manual integration into existing systems.
Scalability ITM for Virtual Environments is designed to monitor very large environments Reduces management infrastructure software, labor and hardware costs.

What's new?

  • Capacity planning analysis & reports
  • Integrated Web 2.0 dashboard
  • Broad Hypervisor support
  • Support for physical server, storage and network elements
  • Predictive thresholds

IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring for Virtual Environments (formerly named IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers) is designed to address the specific challenges in managing a virtual environment. It provides the tools to ensure the health, performance and capacity of virtual environment, while helping maximize IT cost savings.

- Capacity planning and reporting are vital to optimizing the virtual environment; i.e. improving density and workload placement decisions.
- Predictive alerts identify resources that are trending negatively, and threatening to run out of capacity, days and weeks in advance.
- In addition, availability monitoring can be used to help find problems with critical resources and alert operations teams before users are adversely affected.

Multiple hypervisor coverage:

A large percentage of customers have deployed more than one hypervisor in their data center, and this percentage will likely grow as hypervisor technologies continue to mature. IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments provides broad hypervisor coverage to help reduce the cost of managing multiple hypervisors. This offering includes the following agents for comprehensive monitoring of virtual environments:

Virtual Infrastructure Agent (VI): Remote performance and availability monitoring of VMware ESX, ESXi and vCenter Server environments. This agent has been certified by VMware in the VMware Ready program.

KVM Agent: Remote performance and availability monitoring to visualize availability, performance and capacity trends for Kernel Based Virtual Machines and hosts. This agent remotely monitors KVM by connecting to each host.

Citrix XenServer Agent: Remote performance and availability monitoring for XenServer pools, hosts and virtual machines to include pool master transitions and XenServer license expiration notifications. Each agent instance connects to a XenServer™ Pool containing 1 to 16 XenServer™ hypervisors or optionally a stand-alone XenServer™ hypervisor. This agent has been certified by Citrix in the Citrix Ready program.

Citrix XenApp Agent: Monitoring of Citrix XenApp environments. This agent is installed on the server or virtual machine running Citrix XenApp.

Citrix XenDesktop Agent: Performance and Availability monitoring for Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop infrastructure.

NetApp Storage Agent: Remote performance and availability monitoring to visualize capacity, latency, and throughput performance metrics of NetApp and IBM N series storage systems. This agent monitors the DataFabric Manager Server (DFM) and remotely connects to the DFM server to obtain performance metrics.

Cisco UCS Agent: Performance and availability monitoring of key components in a Cisco UCS environment, including chassis, blades and network fabric, featuring environment and component health scores, power and cooling metrics, and key configuration information. Customers deploying a UCS system as a special-purpose application delivery platform, such as a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure host, can use one tool set to monitor, report, and plan the future health of the UCS environment.

The Network Devices agent: This agent monitors SNMP-enabled devices. The agent identifies and notifies you of common network problems as reported by SNMP MIB-II-enabled devices. The software includes the following features: SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, SNMPv3, MIB-II network monitoring standards, historical data collection for further analysis, and automatic sampling of data and notification when certain conditions occur.

Each of these agents includes best-practice situations and expert advice, customized workspaces, historical data gathering and reporting. In addition, these agents can send application-specific events to IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console®. With these powerful capabilities, you can more effectively and efficiently manage their complete, end-to-end infrastructure from a single customizable interface.

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