IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments provides a comprehensive tool to monitor the availability and performance of virtual environments. It is targeted at monitoring of cloud infrastructures and virtualized environments in traditional data centers

IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring for Virtual Environments V7.2 Fixpack 1 is now available.

At a glance:

IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring for Virtual Environments V7.2 extends the benefits of end-to-end performance monitoring in a virtualized environment by providing additional hypervisor support and new capacity planning reports.

 New and updated features over version 7.1 include:

• Updated VMWare Dashboard
• Updated Cisco UCS monitoring agent
• Updated Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp and XenServer agents
• Updated Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machines agent to monitor Linux KVM environments.
• Updated VMWare VI agent to monitor VMWare Virtual Center.
• New NetApp Storage agent to monitor NetApp and IBM N Series storage systems through NetApp DataFabric Manager (DFM )and a new Network Devices agent to monitor network devices.
• New enhancements to the Capacity Planner for VMWare including enhancements to the capacity planning reports.
• New PowerVM monitoring capabilities. Monitoring of the HMC, CEC, VIOS and LPARs using the PowerVM agents. Log monitoring for the PowerVM LPARs is also available.
• New capacity analytics and sizing guidance for PowerVM environments.
• New and enhanced Performance and Capacity Management Reports for Linux KVM and VMWare VI Agents.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments V7.2 extends the benefits of end-to end performance monitoring in a virtualized environment by providing sophisticated capacity analytics and workload placement guidance that allow you to safely maximize the density of virtual hosts.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments V7.2 provides a comprehensive tool to monitor the availability and performance of virtual environments. In addition, it also provides performance and capacity reporting of virtual environments like the hypervisor, OS, virtual machines, network, storage and helps you with capacity planning activities to optimize, consolidate, and balance the overall capacity of the virtual environments.

It provides a consumable solution with focus on customer experience and time-to-value through the advanced dashboard and reporting views.

By using this insight and guidance, you are more likely to realize the promised cost savings of virtualization by eliminating the uncertainty that often accompanies a migration from physical application servers to virtual ones.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments V7.2 provides out of the box agents for monitoring your environments. The additional agents like the Cisco UCS and the Citrix Xen environment agents can be purchased separately. Additionally, you can also obtain the Hyper-V agent via the ITCAM for Microsoft Applications or via the SmartCloud APM products.