VMWare Virtualization Platform Monitoring
Colleagues, welcome!
In my work, I face the challenges of virtualizing infrastructure services based on VMWare software.
And to create a full-fledged IT infrastructure on a virtualization platform, it is necessary, at a minimum (this trend has been observed for the last 2-3 years), to supplement it with a monitoring system. At the same time, it is necessary to monitor not only infrastructure services, but also the virtualization platform itself.
I would like to talk about this, to hear the opinions of other specialists. How and what to monitor VMWare? I will not talk about monitoring systems from vendors such as IBM, HP, at least simply because I don’t deal with them, I suggest focusing on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (this is not a hidden advertisement).
The logical question is: why bring in third-party vendors when VMWare has its own VMWare vCenter Operations product (I’ll still say something about it later)?
The fact is that VMWare vCenter Operations is designed to monitor only the virtual environment, that is, to monitor the state of virtualization hosts, virtual machines only in terms of memory load, processor availability, network interface performance and disk subsystem. It does not affect the health of infrastructure services, for example, the state of the operating system in a virtual machine, the state of AD DS, etc.
For an Enterprise organization, however, integrated monitoring is necessary, allowing monitoring not individual components of the infrastructure, but the entire business processes, building dependencies between the components. For example, the state of the hardware component (physical server - host), the virtualization platform, the OS inside the virtual server, SQL Server, IIS - a combination of all the above will allow you to understand the state of the service (web site) both as a whole and when individual components fail. Therefore, I propose to consider the option of monitoring as a kernel based on MS SCOM 2007 R2 + third-party control packages.
Microsoft itself does not have a management pack or basic functionality for monitoring VMWare for obvious reasons, but it refers to its partners who have these packages (or additional solutions) and that integrate well with SCOM. Among them are, for example, the company Quest Software, Solarwinds, Veeam, Jalasoft. I have an idea to briefly talk about the products of these manufacturers in the following posts, perhaps this will help someone make the right choice when building a monitoring system (with a virtualization platform).
A little bit about VMWare vCenter Operations. Currently, 3 editions are available, differing in the range of features: Standard, Advanced, Enterprise.
Comparison of editions is provided on the vendor's website at the link: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-operations/editions_comparison.html
Standard Edition can be downloaded and used within 60 days, how to download and deploy is described in the article http://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2011/04/26/get-started-with-vcenter-operations.aspx
Product description is available at http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-operations/overview.html , as well as a short root-description of the link http://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2011/05/04/how- vcenter-operations-can-help-you.aspx
Yes, just in case, I am very interested in your opinion!
In my work, I face the challenges of virtualizing infrastructure services based on VMWare software.
And to create a full-fledged IT infrastructure on a virtualization platform, it is necessary, at a minimum (this trend has been observed for the last 2-3 years), to supplement it with a monitoring system. At the same time, it is necessary to monitor not only infrastructure services, but also the virtualization platform itself.
I would like to talk about this, to hear the opinions of other specialists. How and what to monitor VMWare? I will not talk about monitoring systems from vendors such as IBM, HP, at least simply because I don’t deal with them, I suggest focusing on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (this is not a hidden advertisement).
The logical question is: why bring in third-party vendors when VMWare has its own VMWare vCenter Operations product (I’ll still say something about it later)?
The fact is that VMWare vCenter Operations is designed to monitor only the virtual environment, that is, to monitor the state of virtualization hosts, virtual machines only in terms of memory load, processor availability, network interface performance and disk subsystem. It does not affect the health of infrastructure services, for example, the state of the operating system in a virtual machine, the state of AD DS, etc.
For an Enterprise organization, however, integrated monitoring is necessary, allowing monitoring not individual components of the infrastructure, but the entire business processes, building dependencies between the components. For example, the state of the hardware component (physical server - host), the virtualization platform, the OS inside the virtual server, SQL Server, IIS - a combination of all the above will allow you to understand the state of the service (web site) both as a whole and when individual components fail. Therefore, I propose to consider the option of monitoring as a kernel based on MS SCOM 2007 R2 + third-party control packages.
Microsoft itself does not have a management pack or basic functionality for monitoring VMWare for obvious reasons, but it refers to its partners who have these packages (or additional solutions) and that integrate well with SCOM. Among them are, for example, the company Quest Software, Solarwinds, Veeam, Jalasoft. I have an idea to briefly talk about the products of these manufacturers in the following posts, perhaps this will help someone make the right choice when building a monitoring system (with a virtualization platform).
A little bit about VMWare vCenter Operations. Currently, 3 editions are available, differing in the range of features: Standard, Advanced, Enterprise.
Comparison of editions is provided on the vendor's website at the link: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-operations/editions_comparison.html
Standard Edition can be downloaded and used within 60 days, how to download and deploy is described in the article http://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2011/04/26/get-started-with-vcenter-operations.aspx
Product description is available at http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-operations/overview.html , as well as a short root-description of the link http://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2011/05/04/how- vcenter-operations-can-help-you.aspx
Yes, just in case, I am very interested in your opinion!
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