Fujitsu siemens openSM2 (VMware ESX Server) Version 8.0 DATASHEET
openSM2 (VMware ESX Server)
Version 8.0
System Performance Monitor
Round-the-clock performance monitoring forms the basis for effective and
economic operation of IT systems.
With the openSM2 product line, Fujitsu Technology Solutions offers a consistent
solution for the enterprise-wide performance management of server and storage
systems, by which the server systems Microsoft® Windows, Linux®,
Solaris™(SPARC®), VMware™ ESX Server™, Xen® and BS2000/OSD® and the
storage systems Symmetrix, CLARiiON and FibreCAT are supported.
openSM2 (VMware ESX Server) provides a comprehensive online monitoring with
configurable alarm management, detailed bottleneck analyses as well as forecasts
of future performance requirements and so gives the customer the capability to
optimize the performance of his VMware ESX Server systems.
openSM2 (VMware ESX Server) consists of the components INSPECTOR for online monitoring, and ANALYZER
for offline analysis of monitoring files.
Each component consists of a manager with a comfortable
graphical user interface on a Windows PC and agents
which collect performance data of the systems to be
monitored resp. analyze monitoring files.
The managers can work together with the agents of all
members of the openSM2 product line.
Online monitoring
With INSPECTOR a number of systems can be monitored
simultaneously. Besides to the graphical presentation of
the monitored data INSPECTOR offers a flexibly configurable alarm management which supports the automated
monitoring with a rule-based check of the measurement
data and automatically executable actions.
The performance data can be saved to a monitoring file for
later analysis.
Offline analysis
The monitoring files generated by INSPECTOR are
analyzed using ANALYZER.
The output from ANALYZER permits accurate bottleneck
and trend analyses and provides support in planning
capacity and generating reports.
Time-controlled analysis runs enable regular analyses to
be fully automated, for reporting procedures for example.
Description of the measurement variables
openSM2 (VMware ESX Server) collects all relevant
performance data of the entire server and the individual
virtual machines:
Number of virtual machines
Number of real and virtual processors
Utilization of processors total and by virtual machines
Memory usage by VMkernel and virtual machines
Size and usage of swap area
Import and export activities (swapping),
Accesses to and data transfer rates of disks
Data transfer rates of network
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INSPECTOR
In selectable time intervals, the monitoring cycles, agents
collect performance data relating to the current status of
the monitored systems and send it via a TCP/IP connection
to the manager, which presents and monitors the data. The
agents collect the data remotely from the PC, so that no
installation on the ESX servers is necessary ("agentless"
monitoring).
The monitored systems are displayed in the system list of
the manager. The system list has a tree structure showing
the association of the systems to system types and system
groups. The color of a system entry indicates the status of
the system. There are the possibilities “no data”, “values in
normal range” and “alarm”. The status display is constantly
updated and enables exceptional situations to be detected
instantly and an appropriate response to be made.
A number of different types of reports with a graphical or
tabular layout are available for presenting the performance
data.
Snapshot reports show the current system status in graphic
or numeric form. Time-series reports enable the user to
read off the chronological development of the measured
values over the last hours. There are global reports, which
provide an overview of multiple systems in a chart or a
table, and reports which show selected performance data
of an individual system.
The user can specify the measurement variables and
monitored objects whose measured values are to be
presented in a report, and can also define new measurement variables by linking variables by means of formulas.
The user can customize the charts in the reports by
selecting different chart types (bar, line, line logarithmized,
etc.) and colors. The charts can be printed by mouse click,
saved as a graphics file or copied to the Clipboard for
transfer to mainstream programs (Word, PowerPoint, etc.).
A header and footer can be inserted for printout and the
labeling of the charts modified.
The monitored data provided by the systems can be supervised by means of user-defined rules. In a rule conditions
and actions are defined. If all conditions of a rule are
fulfilled an alarm for the rule is set off. The system entry in
the system list takes the color of the alarm level assigned
to the rule and the actions defined for the rule are
executed.
The following actions can be triggered:
A report with the measurement variable in question is
opened automatically for each condition of the rule.
An audible alarm is triggered.
ANALYZER
With ANALYZER, multiple monitoring files – from the same
or different systems – can be analyzed simultaneously in a
single analysis run. The user specifies the type and scope
of the analysis via the user-friendly graphical interface of
the manager. The analysis job thus defined is processed by
agents and the result is then presented by the manager.
The monitoring files to be analyzed can be stored on any
server or PC where an agent is running.
The analysis result is supplied as chart and table and can
be saved as a file and also copied into mainstream programs like Excel and Word or to the Clipboard for further
processing.
Functions:
Selection of the analysis period; time windows can also
be defined and certain periods (e.g. weekends) can be
excluded
Selection of the measurement variables via report
group, report and measurement variable
Linking of a number of measurement variables by
means of formulas
Selection of monitored objects (e.g. CPU, devices,
workload classes, etc.)
Selection of different analytical functions (mean value,
frequencies, minimum, maximum, quantiles)
Creation of time series and correlation charts
Identification of overloaded resources by automatic
production of hit lists of the monitored objects with the
highest utilization values
Identification of the processes involved in load peaks by
automatic production of a list of the processes with
highest CPU consumption for each monitoring cycle
Monitoring of specified service levels through analysis of
frequencies (e.g. percentage share of the monitoring
cycles with CPU utilization above 80%)
Discovery of functional interrelationships between
measurement variables through presentation as
correlation chart
Customizing of the charts by selection of different chart
types (bar, line, line logarithmized, etc.) and colors.
ANALYZER supports macro technology, enabling regular
analysis runs to be automated.
The long-term files of ANALYZER provide the ability to
save measured values of randomly selected measurement
variables over longer periods in compressed form on the
PC in order to produce trend analyses and support longterm capacity planning.
A procedure is started on any desired monitored server.
A batch file is executed on the PC.
An e-mail or SMS is sent.
A rule can be used to link not only conditions for the
measurement variables of one system, but also conditions
for different systems.
In the rules the user can define different limit values and
actions for different times of day in order to take account of
different system usage types – for instance, online mode
during the day and batch mode during the night.
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