REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – June 26, 2007 – Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader of Service Level Management (SLM) solutions, today announced that Nimsoft is leading the industry by providing end- to-end, service level monitoring and reporting for VMware environments. Nimsoft’s signature in-depth and real-time reporting brings enterprise customers and managed service providers central management of multiple VMware Virtual Centers and 360 degree monitoring for all levels of the VMware stack, including hosted business applications. Nimsoft comprehensive data collection and intelligent reporting delivers clearer visibility for ongoing management and helps protect service level agreements in dynamic VMware environments. NimBUS for VMware is available today.
“While the increasing virtualization of the IT infrastructure changes many of the dynamics of IT operations, one thing remains the same,” said Cameron Haight, Research Vice President, Gartner, Inc. “The key focus for IT remains not on the independent management of physical and now these virtual infrastructure elements, but on how they contribute to the delivery of mission critical business services.”
Ultimate Control with 360 Degree Monitoring
NimBUS 360 degree monitoring results from deep integration with VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 and VMware VirtualCenter 2. Using NimBUS for VMware, VMware administrators can refocus their efforts away from virtual silo management and base their management decisions on end user productivity and business services. NimBUS analyzes all collected data against thresholds, established by business requirements, for real time alarming, predictive analysis of end user response times, performance trending reports, service level agreement compliance and business service dashboards.
The plethora of data provided by NimBUS, in excess of 80 critical health checkpoints for ESX hosts and virtual machines, helps provide administrators intelligent control of business delivery and quickly identify root causes of system disruptions. The depth of NimBUS monitoring helps address the current visibility issues customers are experiencing with resource allocation and performance of disk, memory, CPU, system data and virtual network I/O. NimBUS for VMware provides complete inside-out and outside-in perspectives for ultimate monitoring control in managing a real-time environment.
NimBUS effectively monitors the entire VMware ecosystem:
• Underlying physical server hardware
• VMware ESX hosts, virtual machines
• Operating systems hosted on virtual machines, such as Windows, Linux, Unix, Netware
• Business applications hosted on virtual machines, such as Microsoft Exchange, Oracle and Microsoft IIS
• Application transaction response times of VM-hosted business applications monitored from the user’s perspective
