VM Manager Software & Tools

VM Manager Software & Tools

1. SolarWinds VM Monitor

   • Free to use
   • Monitors virtual machine infrastructure
     • VMWare vSphere
     • Microsoft Hyper-V compatibility
   • Low system utilization for components such as CPU and memory

2. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

   • Paid / 30 days free trial
   • Optimize performance and reliability in virtual environment
   • Performance recommendations and monitoring
   • Reduce downtime

3. Datadog Infrastructure

   • Datadog is a cloud-based monitoring system for IT infrastructure
   • key features
     • Groups geographically distributed implementations
     • Monitors load balancing

4. ManageEngine OpManager

   • Capacity Planning allows decision makers to plan and allocate resources correctly

5. Zabbix

   • Tracking of performance per virtual machine
   • Virtual host performance tracking
   • Historical analysis support

6. VEEAM ONE

   • Veeam is used extensively for VMWare Installations around the world
   • Resource management and configuration tracking

7. eG Enterprise

   • Comprehensive monitoring of VMs and VM environment

8. Nagios XI

   • Monitoring VMs and keep track of the multitude of metrics and data

9. Progress WhatsUp Gold

   • Paid
   • Display hosts and guests as well as the relationships and clusters of VMs within environment.

10. Purpose of the tool

    • VM Manager is a suite of tools that can be used to manage operating systems for large virtual machine (VM) fleets running Windows and Linux on Compute Engine

11. Site24x7 VMware Monitoring

    • Paid / 30 days free trial
    • Cloud-based monitoring platform that includes a monitoring and management system for all servers of the services that support user interfaces
    • Automatic discovery of virtualizations
    • Mapping of VMs to servers.

12. PRTG

    • Paid
    • VMWare Virtual Machine Sensor (SOAP)
    • VMWare Data Store Sensor
    • Monitors every detail of the virtual environments

13. SentryOne SQL Sentry

    • FREE Trial