Enterprise Class Virtualization Management Solution from Vizioncore
Two weeks after the release of vOptimizer Vizioncore has released vFoglight. Formerly vCharter Pro, vFoglight comes in two versions standard and professional with over 8 core features such as chargeback and Service Level Management. According to Vizioncore vFoglight has been elevated to a new level in virtualization management by giving system administrator more flexibility and information about their virtual infrastructure
“Understanding the performance of the virtual infrastructure is a complex challenge,and vFoglight provides the ideal solution to bring clarity and expertise to the most significant problems,” commented Chris Page, Director of Product Management at Vizioncore. “With the latest edition of vFoglight SE, and the newly introduced vFoglight Pro, administrators can view the entire infrastructure through detailed architectural representations and use out-of-the-box alerts and expert advice to diagnose root-cause problems affecting performance and availability. By offering two vFoglight editions, Vizioncore seek to give customers exactly what they need at a price point to match the key features offered.”
vFoglight Features:
Detailed Architectural Representations - Understand the virtual infrastructure through clear, high-level visual representations which include color coding and movements to focus attention on problem areas. This helps administrators to quickly identify problems occurring in the virtual infrastructure to speed problem diagnosis and resolution.
Guest Process Investigation - Drill-down into the processes running within VMs to understand internal performance and resource utilization. This helps administrators to quickly determine which processes are impacting VM performance or which VMs are utilizing resources ineffectively.
Out-of-the Box Alerts with Expert Advice – Detailed alarms covering best practices, future predictions, deviations from normal activity and specific operational problems. Accurately diagnose the root-cause of incidents and problems and speed mean-time-to-resolution.
Asset and Configuration Tracking – Track the movement of virtual machines and changes to their configurations from one physical server to another, while correlating the impact that those changes may have on the performance and availability of applications and services, as well as on other virtual machines.
Workload Migration Modeling – Show the resource impact of moving a virtual machine from one physical system to another to determine if planned moves will have unfavorable impact on resources and services.
Service Level Management – Group virtual machines and infrastructure components into services and use those services to record status and availability, perform chargeback, and report KPI, SLO and SLA information. This helps to better align IT and the business by measuring service levels, perform chargeback and report key information to stakeholders.
Resource Utilization Management – Gather and summarize performance and utilization data at all levels of the virtual infrastructure to identify capacity issues, underutilized capacity and predict underutilization.
Multiple vCenter Management – Visualize multiple virtual centers using a single screen to proactively understand the entire virtual infrastructure while reducing administration costs and minimizing risk.
Reporting – Provides out-of-the-box reports for capacity, performance, asset tracking, provisioning trends and infrastructure events. This helps administrators to communicate current and available capacity, virtual machines that require attention, plan and prioritize performance and availability enhancements, and understand changes to infrastructure assets.
Chargeback – Provides the ability to allocate costs for the use of infrastructure to hosts or groups of hosts, whether they are physical or virtual, and using industry-standard chargeback models. This helps administrators provides cost transparency to IT management and business stakeholders that indicate what groups and workloads are consuming resources and allowing costs to be recovered proportionately.
“Being able to monitor the performance of the virtual infrastructure should be a priority for any organization, but particularly those with critical applications running within virtual machines. They must fully realize, and then mitigate, the risks posed by performance issues before arriving at a potentially disastrous situation,” continued Page. “Only vFoglight from Vizioncore provides the granularity needed to support mission-critical IT infrastructures, while providing the high-level 360 degree view.”
