Unmatched Performance Management for Virtualized Java Apps

Unmatched Performance Management for Virtualized Java Apps

Unmatched Performance Management for Virtualized Java Apps

SpringSource Hyperic 4.4 greatly simplifies the management of virtualized custom applications by maintaining a continually updated inventory of VMware vSphere ESXi and ESX hosts, as well as their corresponding virtual machines and guest operating systems. This lets you much more quickly find, fix, and prevent application performance problems wherever they occur across virtual and private cloud infrastructures.

  • Complete and Instant Visibility into Your Entire Virtualized Web App Stack
  • Hyperic 4.4 makes IT operations teams vastly more efficient in managing the continuous datacenter change that comes with virtualization. With full vCenter integration, Hyperic 4.4 saves significant time—by providing deep insight into performance at any point between the app itself and the hypervisor, and by freeing administrators from having to manually maintain the inventory of their virtual application infrastructure.
  • Rapidly Diagnose Virtualized Application Performance Problems
  • Hyperic 4.4 greatly speeds the process of identifying root causes. Visibility into the entire virtualized stack lets you quickly pinpoint whether a problem lies within an app layer, guest operating system, or ESX hypervisor. With Hyperic 4.4’s new user interface, you can easily compare performance data between an app and its corresponding virtual machine or ESX instance—quickening mean time to resolution (MTTR) and extending mean time between failures (MTBF).
  • Automatically Maintain Virtualized App Infrastructure Inventory
  • Hyperic 4.4’s exceptional automation yields major time savings and lets system administrators manage more applications and servers than ever before. Within minutes of their launch, Hyperic 4.4 automatically discovers ESX hosts, virtual machines, and guest operating systems, and presents them in a unified topology. Hyperic also detects when virtual machines are moved from one ESX host to another using vMotion, and adjusts topologies accordingly, with no loss of monitoring data.
  • Virtualization-Aware Alerting prevents false alert storms
  • Hyperic 4.4 can distinguish an operating system crash from an intentional power-down or suspension of use—precluding false alarms that would occur when, for example, a system administrator scales down an app’s virtual infrastructure after usage has declined. This capability lets you elastically scale your application infrastructure without fear of triggering alert storms.

Feature Highlights

Hyperic has long provided system administrators with these virtualization management capabilities, all of which are included
in Hyperic 4.4:

Feature Highlights

For pilot projects to virtualize custom apps, Hyperic lets you definitively quantify virtualization’s impact by baselining critical performance metrics for both physical and virtual infrastructure. In the rare case that virtualization introduces latency, Hyperic can drill down into any of thousands of metrics to pinpoint the exact cause—enabling you to make informed modifications to configurations and capacity.

Hyperic can automate routine responses to application problems—such as reverting a virtual machine to a snapshot, restarting a virtual machine, and rebooting a guest operating system. These automated recovery actions help fulfill virtualization’s promise of greater operational efficiency, especially for companies that need their apps running at full speed 24/7 to serve customers across the globe.

Hyperic’s event management features give you visibility into log events reported for all your virtual machines. Log events are vital clues for diagnosing or averting performance problems—they provide system awareness for performance data, configuration changes, and security action changes, such as when a virtual machine has been reverted to a snapshot. Use these events to generate alerts, or simply to correlate errors reported in VMware logs with performance and health indicators elsewhere in your environment.

  • VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1 and 4.0
  • VMware vSphere ESX 4.1, 4.0, 3.x, and 2.x
  • VMware vCenter 4.1 and 4.0
  • VMware VI3
  • VMware GSX 3.x
  • VMware Server 1.x