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Virtual & Hybrid Estates

Most estates are a mix: VMware here, Proxmox there, a Nutanix cluster, and physical servers underneath. Unified360 watches hosts, virtual machines, datastores and storage pools across all three platforms next to the rest of your infrastructure, so contention and capacity problems show up in one place.

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  • Hostsand clusters
  • VMsand containers
  • Storagedatastores and pools
Trace a virtualization problemPick what you're seeing · sample data
  1. Physical hardwareDell iDRAC and HPE iLO under the hosts
  2. Hypervisor hostsESXi, Proxmox nodes and Nutanix hosts: CPU and memory
  3. Virtual machines and containersVM and LXC CPU and memory, ready time and ballooning
  4. StorageDatastores, Proxmox storage, Nutanix pools and containers
  5. ApplicationsServices and databases running in the guests
Illustrative example. Rules and settings are configured per environment.

The problem

Virtual estates hide contention

A VM is only as healthy as the host and storage under it, and those are rarely on the same screen.

01

Mixed

VMware, Proxmox and Nutanix each come with their own console, and the physical estate has another. Nobody sees across them.

02

Contended

A VM slows down because of the host or the datastore, not the VM. The cause sits a layer away from the symptom.

03

Unprotected

Guests get created faster than they get backed up, and storage fills quietly underneath.

Where it goes wrong

Six gaps, and how each one is closed

Three consoles for three platforms

How it goes wrongVMware, Proxmox and Nutanix each need their own tool and their own skills.

Closed withUnified360 monitors VMware vCenter, Proxmox and Nutanix Prism Central, with an overview dashboard for vCenter and per-platform detail dashboards.

Contention that plain CPU hides

How it goes wrongA VM shows low CPU but waits for the host to schedule it.

Closed withVMware CPU ready time, memory ballooning and swap-in are alertable, on hosts and VMs.

Datastores that fill up

How it goes wrongThin-provisioned storage grows until a VM stops.

Closed withDatastore, Proxmox storage, Nutanix pool and container use, each with its own alert and a capacity figure.

Guests without a backup

How it goes wrongA VM exists, but nobody set up its backup.

Closed withProxmox shows guests without a backup job, next to node, VM and container health.

Hardware under the hypervisor

How it goes wrongA failing fan or disk on a host is invisible from inside the hypervisor.

Closed withiDRAC and iLO monitoring for the physical hosts, in the same platform.

The same fix on every VM

How it goes wrongA guest fills its disk and someone logs in to clean up.

Closed withAutomated Actions can run approved scripts inside Windows and Linux guests when an alert fires.

Platforms

Three platforms, one way of watching them

Pick a platform to see what Unified360 tracks and the alerts you can build.

VMware vCenter

Hosts, virtual machines and datastores through vCenter, collected with Telegraf's vSphere input.

  • cpu_usage_pctCPU use, host and VM
  • cpu_ready_msCPU ready time
  • mem_usage_pctMemory use, host and VM
  • mem_swapinHost swap-in rate
  • mem_balloon_mbVM memory ballooned
  • datastore_used_pctDatastore used %
  • datastore_capacity_bytesDatastore capacity
Each rule targets one host, VM or datastore. No vCenter screen is shown here.

What you can see

VMware vCenter

vCenter Overview dashboardHostsVirtual machinesDatastores

Metric names are the ones you can build alert rules on. Hyper-V and public-cloud VMs are not covered by these monitors.

What changes

When the whole virtual estate is in view

One view across platforms

VMware, Proxmox and Nutanix report into the same platform as the servers and databases in their guests.

Contention you can see

CPU ready time, ballooning and swap-in explain slowness that CPU use alone can't.

Capacity before it runs out

Datastore and pool use are alerted on, with capacity figures alongside.

Unprotected guests found

Proxmox backup gaps become a number you can drive to zero.

Built with

The platforms behind this solution

Unified360

Operations and observability

vCenter, Proxmox and Nutanix monitoring, hardware, servers, databases and alerting in one platform.

IntelliAsset

Asset and patch management

Inventory of the physical hosts and the guests' software, with patching for Windows and Debian and Ubuntu.

Questions

Frequently asked

Which virtualization platforms are covered?

VMware vCenter, Proxmox and Nutanix (through Prism Central). Hyper-V and public-cloud VMs are not covered by these monitors.

What VMware metrics can I alert on?

CPU use, CPU ready time and memory use on hosts and VMs, host memory swap-in, VM memory ballooning, and datastore used percentage and capacity.

What about Proxmox and Nutanix?

Proxmox alerts cover CPU and memory on nodes, VMs and containers and storage use, and its dashboard shows guests without a backup job. Nutanix alerts cover CPU and memory on hosts and VMs and storage pool and container use.

Is each alert tied to one object?

Yes. A virtualization rule targets one host, VM, node, pool or datastore rather than the whole cluster, so thresholds can differ by object.

How does data get collected?

VMware through Telegraf's vSphere input, Proxmox through the Proxmox exporter and Nutanix through SNMP against Prism Central, into InfluxDB, from a monitoring agent at the site.

Can I see inside the guests?

Yes. Install the server agent in a Windows or Linux guest and it is monitored like any other server, including services, files and databases.

Does it cover the hardware under the hosts?

Yes. Dell iDRAC and HPE iLO monitoring covers health, power and temperature, in the same platform.

See it on your own estate

Watch hosts, VMs and storage in one view

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