Xangati for ESX
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Xangati for ESX is a line of virtual appliances providing real-time, continuous visibility into the otherwise invisible activity of a VMware ESX/ESXi host, its virtual machines (VMs) and the infrastructure resources they use. Xangati for ESX products uniquely display the relationships between your VMs and other resources on your infrastructure in a continuous manner to answer questions, including:
- What is a VM doing?
- What application is it running and how much CPU and memory is it using?
- What storage is being accessed and what is the latency?
- Which end-users are accessing the VM?
Xangati for ESX comes in two versions, both providing real-time, continuous visibility into the complex interactions between a VM and everything it interacts with:
Xangati for ESX: A free tool designed for smaller scale environments with only a few ESX/ESXi hosts providing:
- Auto discovery and naming of ESX/ESXi’s VMs and applications
- Continuous, real-time visibility into over 100 metrics on an ESX/ESXi host and its VMs activity, including communications, CPU, memory, disk, and storage latency
- DVR recording and replaying of activity with scroll-bar
- Visibility into vSwitch communications
- 12 weeks of historical reporting on named identities
Xangati for ESX Pro: Extends the visibility offered by Xangati for ESX with the integration to VMware vCenter so that alarms/alerts automatically trigger DVR recordings. Xangati for ESX Pro also supports more named identities and offers integration to XMDs for visibility across ESX/ESXi hosts and physical infrastructure. Additional features licensable per ESX/ESXi processor include:
- Additional named identities for reporting
- Integration with XMDs for enterprise-wide visibility across multiple ESX/ESXi hosts and physical infrastructure
Both Xangati for ESX and ESX Pro provide virtualisation professionals real-time visibility into all activity within a VMware ESX/ESXi host. With Xangati, get the critical visibility you need to solve problems 10X faster, make good design decisions, and optimise VM performance. Xangati for ESX leverages and extends the performance management capabilities of VMware’s vCenter and does so with a lightweight footprint—a single VM per ESX host.
Critical Visibility You Need - Both Xangati for ESX versions provide critical visibility missing from existing tools. Rather than show the state of a VM (green/yellow/red) with coarse and static reports on CPU, memory, and disk usage, Xangati displays continuous VM activity with a DVR scrollbar for pausing, rewinding, and replaying. With Xangati, you see actual activity in context and navigate intuitively across your infrastructure’s key relationships to explore and discover what is really going on. For any element, other related elements and their connections are clearly displayed, making it easy to navigate to anywhere of importance. Actual activity is displayed so that peaks and valleys are easily seen and common mistakes from using averaged metrics are avoided. This unique “VM-to-Anything” visibility explains why administrators around the world turn to Xangati to understand their virtual infrastructure.
Troubleshoot - Both Xangati for ESX versions see everything happening within an ESX/ESXi host. Did the communication interactions just wildly change? Did performance just drop? Perhaps a code change just altered the interactions between an application server and a database in separate VMs? Or perhaps a backup job is running late and crowding out other VM communications? With Xangati for ESX you know what is going on in real-time with continuous visibility into each and every VM, anything and everything each VM is communicating as well as resource and latency metrics. One of the more powerful features—DVR recordings—makes it easy to catch, record, and replay problems to eliminate re-creating problems and just hit “play”.
Design - Both Xangati for ESX versions display communication and resource workloads for all VMs within an ESX. Over 100 metrics are available to ensure your VMs have enough resources to support the applications and end-users accessing them. For example, if a host is supporting virtual desktops, you see every application on each desktop and are able to decide if each application should get a green-light for VDI usage.
Optimise -Both Xangati for ESX versions enable you to validate and optimise the distribution of VM-to-VM and VM-to-storage communications to deliver the highest performing VMs. With Xangati you know if traffic is properly distributed and resources optimised with visibility into VMkernel, vMotion, DRS, vCenter Server, iSCSI, NFS, Fibre Channel, and other critical VMware infrastructure communications within the monitored ESX. Ensure chatty VMs are in the same ESX host or accessing different storage to keep performance where it should be.
Xangati for ESX VM System Requirements:
- 1 vCPU (512 Mhz min)
- 2 GB RAM (1 GB min)
- 1 x 20 GB DISK
- 2 vNICs
- VMware ESX/ESXi v3.5 or higher
