Whether it’s a small business or the largest enterprise, server virtualization has become the norm. New servers are “virtual first” and even the most critical physical servers are now being virtualized. Virtual machines running on today’s virtual infrastructures are now the revenue-generating, tier-1, most critical applications and businesses will tell you – these applications cannot go down (or run slow). Datacenter resource monitoring has always been important but never before have resource monitoring, capacity planning, and troubleshooting been as important as it is today. That’s because of the combination of more virtualized critical applications, more complex applications, greater levels of consolidation, and applications being distributed across multiple data centers and public clouds.
When you consider what tools to use for monitoring today’s virtual infrastructures, you must make your choice carefully. Traditional virtualization monitoring features have now become “table stakes”, as the saying goes. What IT pros need are monitoring solutions that prevent problems before they happen and, should a problem occur, a solution that provides actionable intelligence and automated remediation to solve problems quickly (and even automatically).
We had reviewed Solarwinds Virtualization Manager, back in 2013 and were impressed. Since then, developers and engineers at Solarwinds have been hard at work adding some very powerful new features to “VMAN”, as it’s affectionately called. To learn about everything that is new with Virtualization Manager, we took it for a test drive in our lab. Since we covered the download, installation, and initial configuration in great detail, we’ve detailed that in a separate post, located here:. In this article, we’ll cover what Solarwinds Virtualization Manager is and how it helps you, then wrap it up with our take is on the new release – version 7. But first, let’s step back for a second and answer this question What is SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 7? According to Solarwinds, Virtualization Manager 7.0 is used to “Optimize and fix vSphere and Hyper-V issues in minutes”. Figure 3 – All Virtualization Alerts By alerting us about these issues and allowing us to take action before the problems impact production, VMAN was able to prevent downtime for the applications running on those virtual machines.
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Consider this – what if that was a critical application with a revenue-generating application running inside? Besides preventing outages, VMAN was also able to identify performance bottlenecks and recommend actions for remediation. For example, in Figure 4 you can see a virtual machine that is experiencing high disk latency. This means that the application running on this virtual machine is likely running slower than they should. To remediate this, VMAN recommends investigating the I/O usage on those disks and take action. Figure 4 – Identifying Disk Latency with Virtualization Manager What’s New in Virtualization Manager 7?
As I eluded to earlier, this latest release, version 7.0 has several new features that fit into the problem prediction / remediation / avoidance category (which I like to call “saving your bacon”). New 7.0 features include:. Actionable intelligence – built-in recommendations with actions that fix active problems and prevent new ones in your environment. Prevent future performance problems – historical trends and patterns give predictive recommendations for VM resource configuration and placement. Schedule recommendations after hours – new scheduling options allow recommendations to be scheduled to run after hours at preselected times. Here are some examples of the types of recommendations that VMAN provides (shown in Figure 5):.
Recommendation to resolve active performance issues such as a VM that will run out of memory on a specific host (shown in Figure 5, below). Recommendations to resolve future / predicted performance issues, such as a datastore that will run out of space. Optimization recommendations to better balance your workloads and ensure optimal performance in the future. Figure 6 – Recommended Actions and Remediation Take special note of that button at the bottom of Figure 6 that says “Apply this Recommendation”. Yes, that DOES mean that you can make changes to correct a performance issue with a virtual machine, through Virtualization Manager, in a fully automated way, all through Virtualization Manager! Now that is very cool! Virtualization Manager 7 and the Orion Platform Solarwinds high-level platform is called Orion and their products – such as network performance monitor (NPM), Virtualization Manager (VMAN), Server Application Monitor (SAM), and more – run inside.
The Orion platform provides a common integration, ability to share data between applications, common database, and common reports. When using Virtualization Manager, there is no separate Orion license to purchase as VMAN is a module in the platform. Today, Virtualization Manager is roughly 98% all in the Orion platform (as a module) and quickly moving to 100%. Until the time comes that Virtualization Manager’s functionality is completely folded into the Orion platform, there will be two different interfaces available for Virtualization Manager – the VMAN appliance web interface and the Orion Virtualization interface. However, the only reason to use the VAM appliance web interface anymore is if you need to do some capacity planning what-if scenario forecasting (something that is coming soon). Besides the new recommendation and remediation features discussed above, the Orion/Virtualization interface offers reporting such as.
Storage I/O and Datastore Latency Reporting (Figure 7, below). Figure 8 – Virtualization Sprawl Reporting in Virtualization Manager Final Thoughts Based on my experience in the past and during this review of the latest version, I’m very impressed with all that VMAN is now capable of. Virtualization Manager retains its strengths of being a great tool for performance monitoring, capacity planning, and virtual infrastructure troubleshooting and adds great new features around recommendation, root cause analysis, and even automated remediation. I especially like the redesigned Orion Virtualization Manager interface. Overall, I’m impressed and I recommend that you try out Solarwinds Virtualization Manager for yourself!.
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