Overview of the CA Nimsoft Monitor solution for Vblock

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CA Nimsoft Monitor for Vblock
At a Glance
CA Nimsoft Monitor for Vblock provides comprehensive coverage for all of the elements within Vblock
environments, including physical, virtual and application. CA Nimsoft Monitor also offers automated
monitoring deployment, and prebuilt, adaptive display and reporting templates for Vblock. This makes it
possible for organizations to immediately begin effective monitoring of the entire environment and allows
administrators to quickly identify the root cause of problems when they occur.
Key benefits/results Business challenges
The Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Vblock infrastructure represents a completely
• Quickly identify problems across the entire
new standard in the delivery of IT services—a complete data center in a box. Created by a
Vblock environment.
joint coalition of Cisco, EMC and VMware, Vblock is a pre-integrated, pre-tested and
• Prevent downtime and improve SLA best-of-breed set of IT solutions that accelerate private cloud implementation and reduce
compliance. risks.
• Eliminate the need to manually configure
monitoring. As with any traditional enterprise or managed service deployment, monitoring for events,
alarms, performance, availability and applications are required to maintain service levels,
• Optimize Vblock resource allocation.
prevent downtime and resolve problems when they occur. In a traditional data center,
solutions to these monitoring problems are built up over time as the environment grows.
With Vblock, however, all the power and complexity of a full data center arrives as a single
Key features “black box”. What happens when something goes wrong? How will you triage to determine
root causes of outages and prevent service level problems?
• Certified Vblock Ready.
• Support for Vblock Series 300 and 700 Solution overview
platforms. CA Nimsoft Monitor for Vblock solves the monitoring problems that enterprises and service
• Complete coverage for all physical and virtual providers encounter in this new environment—allowing customers to quickly identify and
elements of Vblock. prevent problems across the entire Vblock infrastructure. The solution provides
• Automatic discovery and topology. comprehensive, integrated monitoring spanning all elements of the Vblock infrastructure,
as well as the applications and services that provide core value to business owners from
• Pre-built display templates.
Vblock, including:
• Usage metering.
• Physical—Cisco servers and network, EMC storage, chassis, enclosure and power.
• Application and performance monitoring.
• Virtual—VMware hosts, virtual networks, management tools and OS instances.
• Business service and SLA monitoring.
• Applications—Packaged applications, end-user experience, databases and more.

2. CA Nimsoft Monitor for Vblock
Critical differentiators CA Nimsoft Monitor provides a unified view of the performance of the entire
Prevent downtime and optimize SLA Vblock environment.
compliance: Service level agreements (SLAs)
represent tangible measures of the quality of
services delivered. With its proactive and
predictive performance and service level
reporting, CA Nimsoft Monitor allows IT
organizations and service providers to
demonstrate to their customers that their IT
infrastructure is being managed to meet the
needs of the organization, and allows the
optimization not only of SLA compliance, but
of the way in which SLAs are reported.
The solution centrally monitors, manages
and reports on SLAs for Vblock, data centers • Automated discovery and display of the Optimizing Vblock resource usage: A
and public clouds with: Vblock physical configuration and critical challenge for Vblock environments is
topology. ensuring that when multiple instances are
• Trends and analysis. running on common hardware, one instance
• Automated deployment, configuration
is not consuming all of a shared resource—
• Sophisticated SLA reporting. and reporting for monitoring of
such as network, disk or CPU. CA Nimsoft
discovered resources using pre-built
• Insights required to ensure that SLAs are Monitor ties back usage statistics of
templates and automation.
met—including bandwidth, CPU, resources to the actual hardware in use,
performance trending and more. • Zero-touch configuration and proactively alerts based on usage trends,
deployment of monitoring for VMs and appropriately notifies when over subscription
• Automated, intelligent features that occurs and can even implement automated
applications. Dynamically, automatically
reduce the time and expense of SLA actions when these circumstances arise.
and instantly provision monitoring to
reporting.
new servers within the Vblock specific to
When a server has been requested, and
Eliminate manual monitoring their role and use.
resources allocated, a real problem can be
configuration: In any private or public cloud under use of the resource. With CA Nimsoft
And beyond these unique capabilities, the
environment, self service and automation Monitor, if a server has been idle, then alerts
solution includes CA Nimsoft Monitor for
are critical enablers that reduce the cost of and notifications inform the owner that lack
VMware, which will automatically monitor,
the services the cloud delivers. CA Nimsoft of use has been noted and that action is
correlate and display relationships between
has crafted a unique solution to the problem required.
VMs and VM hosts to allow quick, simple
of delivering monitoring services within
root-cause analysis when failures or alerts
Vblock, including:
occur.
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