for Virtual Servers

System requirements

What's new?

• New platform support: KVM, Citrix XenServer and NetApp environments
• On-going capacity planning reports for VMware

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers is designed to address the specific challenges in managing a virtual environment. It helps in visualizing health and performance of the virtual environment and isolating and diagnosing problems quickly; optimizing existing virtual environments to include reports for rightsizing virtual machines and what if analysis for determining potential resource bottlenecks.

New platform support: KVM, Citrix XenServer and NetApp 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.
• 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.
• Citrix Agent: Monitoring of Citrix XenApp environments.

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.

On-going capacity planning reports for VMware:

To effectively manage capacity requirements to ensure high availability and maximize resource utilization, capacity planning needs to occur at the resource level and from a workload point of view. IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers helps organizations by collecting key performance metrics important for capacity planning such as CPU, Memory, Storage and Network utilization, warehousing this data and reporting on capacity trends using Cognos-based Tivoli Common Reporting. Tivoli Common Reporting provides out of the box what if analysis reports for capacity planning in VMware environments but also provides drag and drop capabilities for ad-hoc reporting.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers at a glance

VMware VI Agent: VMware ESX Server V3.5, and later; VMware ESXi Server V3.5, and later; VMware vCenter server V2.5, and later; running on the following operating systems:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 AS/ES System z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 Advanced Platform System z
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 System z
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 System z
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 x86-32
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Advanced Platform 5.0 x86-32
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Advanced Platform 5.0 x86-64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 x86-32
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS/ES 4.0 x86-32
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS/ES 4.0 x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition R2 x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition R2 x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition R2 x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition x86-32
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x86-32
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition x86-32
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition x86-32
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x86-32
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition x86-32
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition x86-64

Prerequisites: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.2 Fix Pack 2 or later, & IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal

NetApp Storage Agent: Monitors versions of NetApp DataFabric Manager V3.7 or later
Runs on these operating systems:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 x86-32
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Advanced Platform 5.0 x86-32
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Advanced Platform 5.0 x86-64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 x86-32
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS/ES 4.0 x86-32
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS/ES 4.0 x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition R2 x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition R2 x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition R2 x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition x86-32
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x86-32
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition x86-32
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition x86-32
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x86-32
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition x86-32
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition x86-64

Prerequisites: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.2 Fix Pack 2 or later; and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal

Citrix Agent: Monitors versions: Citrix 3.0 - Enterprise Edition, 4.0 - Enterprise Edition, 4.5 - Enterprise Edition, 5.0 XenApp ; Runs on these operating systems:

Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition x86-64
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition x86-64

Prerequisites: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 Fix Pack 6 or later; and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal

KVM Agent: Versions of libvirt 0.6.3 and later; Runs on these operating systems:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 Advanced Platform x86-64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0 AS/ES x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0 AS/ES x86-32
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 AS/ES x86-32
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 Advanced Platform x86-32
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11.0 x86-32
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 x86-32
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 AS/ES x86-64

Prerequisites: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.2 Fix Pack 2 or later; and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal

Citrix XenServer Agent: XenServer 5.5 (Free, Advanced, Enterprise, and Platinum Editions), XenServer 5.6 (Free, Advanced, Enterprise, and Platinum Editions); Runs on these operating systems:

Windows 2003 and 2008 (32 and 64-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4,5 and 6 on Intel (32 and 64-bit)
Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 and 11 on Intel (32 and 64-bit)

Prerequisites: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.1 Fix Pack 2 or later; and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal

 

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