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Product Information

vFoglight is a virtualisation monitoring and management solution designed to help organisations understand their virtual infrastructure by managing the relationships and interaction between all the components in the virtual environment, including data centers, data stores, clusters, resource pools, ESX servers and virtual machines. vFoglight goes beyond virtual server monitoring with the ability to gain visibility into the critical applications. Starting with the most frequently virtualised applications like SQL Server, Active Directory and Exchange, vFoglight correlates the events occurring in the virtual infrastructure with the application environment to help IT reduce the mean-time-to-resolution for incidents and problems. vFoglight provides simple means for administrators to visualise the workload impact of moving a virtual image from one physical server to another one. vFoglight helps users prevent unwanted downtime and assists in optimising resource allocation among VMs – a major consideration for companies deploying large-scale virtualisation implementations.

Licensing

CPU Licensing

The main vFoglight product is licensed per physical CPU socket in each server. Each physical CPU socket on the ESX host server(s) requires one CPU licence. Therefore a quad CPU ESX host would require 4 CPU licences. It does not matter how many cores there are on each physical CPU.

Support and Maintenance

Each new licence requires an initial period of support and maintenance - 1 year and 3 year options are available. Optional renewals are also available.

Editions

vFoglight Standard Edition

• Detailed Architectural Representations – High-level, graphical displays highlight problem areas to help you quickly diagnose and fix problems in the virtual infrastructure.
• Extended Hypervisor Support – Manage both VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors from one common console, ensuring consistency across diverse hypervisor environments.
• Guest Process Investigation – Visibility of all running processes helps you quickly determine which ones are impacting virtual machine (VM) performance or which VMs are not using resources effectively.
• Out-of-the Box Alerts with Expert Advice – Detailed alarms and recommended actions help you accurately diagnose the root-cause of problems and resolve them fast.
• Event Remediation – When you get an alarm notification, you can launch automated workflows for fast remdiation of that problem.
• Asset and Configuration Tracking – The ability to track the movement of VMs and their configuration changes from one physical server to another helps you correlate the impact those changes have on system performance and availability.
• Workload Migration Modeling – Visibility of the movement of a VM from one physical system to another helps you determine the impact on resources and services.
• Resource Utilisation Management – Performance data provided at all levels of the virtual infrastructure helps you see and predict how efficiently capacity is used.
• Management of Multiple Virtual Centers – The ability to see several virtual centers from a single interface helps you understand the entire virtual infrastructure, to reduce administration costs and minimise risk.
• Reporting – Out-of-the-box reports help you plan performance enhancements and understand changes to infrastructure assets.

vFoglight Professional Edition

• Chargeback - The ability to allocate infrastructure costs helps you see how groups and workloads are consuming resources.
• Capacity planning - In-depth reports help you plan and manage infrastructure capacity for improved performance and better use of resources.
• Third-party integration - Alerts from third-party systems help you bring new efficiencies and awareness to virtualisation administrators.
• In-context administration - Perform common VM administration tasks, such as start, stop, and pause – in the context of the objects being viewed. This improves efficiency and saves you time.
• Physical operating system monitoring - The ability to monitor memory, CPU, disk I/O and network I/O helps you easily understand key performance and capacity issues in the physical infrastructure and isolate the root cause of problems.
• Service management - The ability to group VMs and components into services allows you to better align IT with the organisation by measuring service levels, performing chargebacks and reporting key data to stakeholders.