Forbo Siegling is an international company that produces conveyor belts and needed a solution to more easily monitor their VMware environments across multiple sites. They were using VirtualCenter and Nagios previously but error detection was difficult and time consuming. They implemented opvizor due to its easy installation, clear dashboard, rule-based error detection, and links to knowledge base articles. The opvizor implementation was quick and helped administrators monitor systems each morning. It has provided valuable data for capacity planning and improved daily administration operations.

1. Opvizor Success Story (Forbo Siegling)
By - Dennis Zimmer
CEO opvizor GmbH,
VMware vExpert, VMware VCAP
General Information:
1. Please give us some information about your company.
As a leading company in high quality flat belts, conveyer and processing belts,
Forbo Siegling develops and produces trendsetting solutions for the driving,
conveying and producing – especially for original equipment manufacturer and for
plant construction. Almost 2000 employees work at nine production sites in
Europe, America and Asia as well as in over 50 national representations. Forbo
Siegling Service Stations might be found at over 300 sites all over the world.
Situation:
1. Which commercial barriers did you try to solve?
As an internationally operating company Forbo Siegling is always facing the
challenge of supervising the VMware environments at several different sites. The
possibilities offered by opvizor convinced the Administrators straight away.
2. Which technologies did you use and what did not work right and why? How did
that influence your daily business?

2. Up-to-now we did that via the VirtualCenter and by monitoring via a nagios-
appliance. In case of problems error detection was always very difficult and time
consuming.
Every error looks different to the previous one and you always have to start to look
into it from cero.
Why opvizor?
1.How did you learn about opvizor?
Due toour contact with Dennis Zimmer.
2.Which were the crucial criteria why you preferred opvizor instead of another
solution?
The easy installation and the clarity of the dashboard.
The integrated rule base for error detection/solving and the links to the
corresponding KB articles.
Solution and implementation:
1. Describe your opvizor Management solution and how it helped you to solve the
problem.
The opvizor was easily and fast installed and configured. Now the first thing of our
administrators in the morning is taking a look at the monitoring and at the opvizor
management.
1. When did you start to use opvizor? How long did it take before the solution was
ready to operate?
Approximately one year ago we started to work with opvizor.
The implementation was done without any problems in a very short time.
Results:
1. Which results have you reached so far with opvizor?

3. Opvizor supports us in the daily monitoring and error analysis.
Furthermore it offers us very valuable date for sizing new equipment like servers
or storage systems.
2. Cost/Performance Ratio?
The cost/performance ratio is definitely appropriate.
3. How has opvizor influenced the allocation and organisation of your virtual
servers?
Opvizor is a huge enrichment for our daily administration business. The first
glance in the morning is on the dashboard before you go over to the next step.
The offered reports and statistics help with projects and the daily operation. With
the standard means of VMware it is impossible to manage this.
4. How would you evaluate the cooperation and support by opvizor?
Up-to-now we hardly had any problems.
Nevertheless we always received an answer even on small arising issues.
opvizor GmbH
Schönbrunnerstrasse 218-220, staircase A 4.04 A-1120 Vienna, Austria
UID: ATU67195304
www.opvizor.com
CEO: Dennis Zimmer