Daily Network Monitor

In a recent edition of the INFOWORLD VIRTUALIZATION REPORT there is some news about a new way to manage VMWare.

As reported by this story:

Hyperic Inc. is making available its virtualization management solution Hyperic HQ for VMware. According to the company, the solution will enable data centers to consolidate complete discovery, monitoring, analysis and control of all application, system and network assets, both inside and outside of the virtual machines powered by VMware.

A big industry concern right now is how to manage or monitor the data center environment once virtualization is added into the mix. Industry watchers like Andi Mann, EMA Senior Analyst for Systems Management explains, “Virtualization magnifies management complexity by consolidating physical servers into multiple virtualized ones, each physical and virtual server with their own OS, configuration, applications. This means that what used to be maybe ten unique server environments can now become hundreds very quickly. A holistic approach to the manageability of all the various IT assets from applications to systems to networks becomes essential.”

Hyperic says that its HQ for VMware solution dramatically extends the capabilities to manage and analyze the full virtual stack, including the operating systems and applications running within the virtual machine, which also compliments VMware’s own management solution, VirtualCenter.

See the Hyperic product here.

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