Xangati Management Dashboard (XMD)
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Xangati Management Dashboard (XMD) provides performance insight into ESX/ESXi hosts, VMs, storage, network, applications, and end user devices across virtual and supporting physical infrastructures. XMD answers questions such as:
- Which hosts have the highest storage latency?
- Which VMs are using the most memory?
- What applications and desktops are running in which VMs?
- Who is using what application?
- How much storage is each VM using right now?
With XMD, you troubleshoot, design, and optimise your infrastructure to overcome VM stall and accelerate your virtualisation initiatives:
- Save time by troubleshooting performance problems up to 10X faster with live, dynamic drill-down navigation showing actual activity, instead of averages.
- Design superior deployments using virtual and physical communication profiles and extensive storage latency, CPU, and memory statistics.
- Reduce costs by optimizing performance with live physical and virtual communications presented in the same pane of glass.
Xangati Management Dashboard (XMD) provides virtualisation administrators, managers, and architects the enterprise-wide visibility needed to accelerate desktop, application, and server virtualisation initiatives and overcome VM stall. With real-time, continuous views into communications, CPU, memory, storage and infrastructure latency – XMDs show exactly what ESX/ESXi hosts, VMs, storage, applications and IP devices are doing and how they interact. Navigate from one VM to another, drill into an ESX host to see storage latency, or view a triggered DVR recording of abnormal activity.
XMDs provide the detailed communications visibility you need to virtualise more of your data centre and capture more savings and efficiencies faster.
Troubleshoot - Live, continuous visibility into detailed communications and resource usage enables problems to be identified in minutes that would otherwise take hours or days if they could be identified at all. Dynamic drill-down navigation into live communication enables you to walk activity across your data center just by clicking your mouse. Each click brings up anything and everything communicating with the identity you are looking at - be it a desktop, application, VM, port, protocol, host, or NAS. Within seconds you will know if a VLAN is misconfigured or if iSCSI storage traffic is competing with something it should not. If users complain about performance, Xangati will immediately show what they are doing and identify if the problem is with their activity (are HD videos crowding out their email or applications?), the infrastructure or an application. Showing actual activity is critical because it includes peak activity—something missed by polling-based solutions that can only show averages or a few moments in time over the course of an hour.
Intelligent profiling enables Xangati to send alerts and/or trigger automatic recordings based on out-of-profile communications and/or resource activity. When trouble starts you have a DVR recording of exactly what was happening at the time. No more problem re-creation; you have a video showing what was going on at the time of the problem. Manual recordings can also be made with the push of a button or scheduled in advance to catch “hiccups” that occur routinely, but without known cause.
Design - With detailed virtual and physical communication profiles covering CPU, memory, storage latency, application usage, and more, you design superior deployments of virtual applications, desktops, and data centers. XMDs discover and present the comprehensive set of dependencies for any application or desktop, from active directory servers and DNS to database and application servers to presentation servers and storage. Dependency information is the number one request for cluster design; with communication profiles, you can ensure your "top talkers" are appropriately located for the performance you desire.
With visibility into communications across both virtual and physical infrastructure, you can identify weak points or bottlenecks that can rob performance. WAN congestion? vSwitch or NIC problems? Poor storage performance? With XMD, you see it and are able to take action. Is usage of a particular asset or application rising? Use XMD to track usage and design your deployment to handle it without guessing and without relying on averages that deliver nothing except trouble when designing systems to perform reliably.
Optimise - XMDs make optimising performance easy by showing live virtual and physical communications and resource usage in the same pane of glass. You no longer need to access multiple systems to see what is actually going on. With Xangati, information is pulled from vCenter, vSwitches, and even physical switches and routers for profiling so that DVR recordings are made automatically when activity is out of character. This enables performance to be optimised for a wide range of conditions. For example, DRS affinities can be set and updated based upon changing VM behavior, allowing business-critical applications and virtual desktops to perform optimally across the entire enterprise. Monitoring solutions cannot deliver the granularity needed to optimise performance—the reason high-performing customers add Xangati regardless what their monitoring tool portfolio looks like.
Xangati Management Dashboard VM System Requirements:
Standard Edition:
- 1 vCPU (2 Ghz min)
- 4 GB RAM (2 GB min)
- 1 x 20GB AND 1 × 80 GB DISK
- 4 NICs
- VMware ESX/ESXi v3.5 or higher
Enterprise Edition:
- 2 vCPU (4 Ghz min)
- 8 GB RAM (4 GB min)
- 1 x 40GB AND 1 × 160 GB DISK
- 4 NICs
- VMware ESX/ESXi v3.5 or higher
Enterprise Plus Edition (Physical Appliance):
- Power
- 2U rack space
