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Cost $ $ $$ $$$ $$$$ Hypervisor Management Secure Remote Site Collection Client Integration Service providers and large enterprises need the Most management solutions require users to ability to centrally monitor multiple locations in a remotely access the management server to operate secure manner. They also need to ensure that data its interface. The look and feel, as well as all general is collected using the most e cient ways possible management activity, is unique to the application. to avoid negatively impacting production resources This can impact the ability to ramp up quickly on a and network bandwidth. This is important for new solution and adds extra steps to the . scalability, especially when monitoring server and application data from thousands of machines – PHD VIRTUAL IS BETTER virtual or physical. PHD Virtual Monitor integrates directly into your existing hypervisor management client. The PHD PHD VIRTUAL IS BETTER Virtual “Plug-in” provides a simple and easy to use PHD Virtual Monitor uses both agentless and agent- interface that results in a single point for monitoring based collection methods. This allows some data all , physical servers, applications, etc., elements to be pulled remotely, while also ensuring right from within the interface that administrators deeper, application-level data can be collected are used to working with every day. This decreases locally via the PHD Virtual Intelligent Agent. These the time to value because the learning curve of agents can also be confi gured to collect virtual managing PHD Virtual Monitor is nearly zero. environment and SNMP information at remote locations and transmit that data back securely to the central server. Many competitors today focus on agentless collection methods only, which are good Multi-Hypervisor Support for ease of use. However, when polling for large amounts of data over the WAN they fi nd they are Competition in the industry is heating unable to collect and analyze the data e ciently. up, with multiple hypervisor vendors o ering This can result in slower problem detection and solutions tailored to di erent business segments. even force users to monitor fewer systems and metrics, leaving blind spots in the datacenter. PHD VIRTUAL IS BETTER PHD Virtual Monitor uses the same easy-to-use confi guration menus and dashboards to support all of the major hypervisors – VMware, Citrix, and Multi-Tenancy and Hyper-V. It’s one of the only vendors that supports Role-Based Security Citrix XenServer using agentless collection methods Enterprises and service providers require the ability directly from the hypervisor. This provides robust to have multiple users, or groups of users, accessing virtual environment monitoring and automated the same software in a way that limits access only to VM and host discovery ensuring you have insight the devices and functionality they require. into how the environment changes without the need to perform extra steps. This is great for cloud PHD VIRTUAL IS BETTER deployments that leverage multiple hypervisors to provide IT services in the most e cient means Most vendors of monitoring software are capable possible. While other vendors do support multiple of providing role-based security. Where PHD Virtual hypervisors, PHD Virtual is one of the only vendors sets itself apart is the ease-of-use and fl exibility that supports all three, and requires no additional when confi guring multi-tenancy and role-based 3rd party management pack integration to achieve access. Not only can PHD Virtual control access to this broad visibility. specifi devices for multi-tenancy, but it can easily control access to monitoring rules and reporting capabilities as well. Physical Server Monitoring application. Most major applications already have pre-confi gured monitoring rules available for ease Physical server monitoring encompasses the ability of use. They can be modifi ed easily and new custom to detect, report against, and even remediate rules can be applied for applications that are not issues with non-virtualized Windows, and monitored out of the box. Other vendors o er basic servers. This includes not only physical application monitoring that focuses on process hardware and resource usage monitoring, but also level information. While this is helpful, it leaves deep application-level monitoring and automated out services, event logs, and application counters remediation. that are important for understanding health and performance. They also do not provide any specifi c PHD VIRTUAL IS BETTER Linux application monitoring. PHD Virtual Monitor leverages its Intelligent Agent to monitor deep server metrics and hardware components of physical Windows, Linux, and Unix machines. Many virtualization monitoring vendors are not capable of providing this level of detail for Physical Network and non-virtualized servers. The vendors that do o er Storage Monitoring this level of support are expensive and in many Much of what impacts a virtual environment cases the agents used are resource intensive. or application can be attributed to storage or The PHD Virtual Monitor Intelligent Agent uses less networking issues. While there are products than a tenth of a percent of CPU and just a few that specifi cally monitor these devices and their megabytes of memory, yet is capable of providing interactions quite well, they generally do not give robust monitoring and alerting near to real-time. It you all of the important virtual environment and is also extremely easy to deploy with preconfi gured application level information needed to pinpoint monitoring rules and a simple interface for issues and get to the root cause. Therefore, customization. having insight into physical storage and networks – bandwidth, packet information, latency, port availability, etc. – can be critical to seeing the big picture. Deep Application Monitoring Monitoring just the infrastructure isn’t good enough PHD VIRTUAL IS BETTER – there are too many guest and application-level PHD Virtual can quickly and easily confi gure SNMP issues that can also impact performance and monitoring of storage and network devices for availability. Understanding CPU, memory, disk, and bandwidth, packet, latency, and availability at the network metrics are important, but there are also port level. This allows users to correlate issues very specifi c application-level metrics, services, and reported within applications and servers to any processes that are just as important for identifying potential infrastructure issues that could be causing issues and bottlenecks. a bottleneck or outage. By combining all of this visibility into a single interface, administrators have PHD VIRTUAL IS BETTER objective evidence to show other organizations where issues are occurring in order to streamline The PHD Virtual Intelligent Agent monitors the remediation process. applications at a deep level of detail. Separate agents for specifi c applications are not required, keeping cost and complexity to a minimum. The same Windows and Linux agents can have any number of monitoring rules applied to identify and even remediate issues within a particular Security and Compliance Cost Monitoring As always, tradeo s must be made between Some industries require strict compliance for data functionality and cost when purchasing a monitoring and processes. Therefore, it can be very important solution. This tradeo directly impacts the value of to monitor event logs, syslogs, and even certain the solution. fi les for changes with the ability to report against that information for auditing purposes. These PHD VIRTUAL IS BETTER capabilities allow users to be compliant with many PHD Virtual Monitor o ers the most robust, industry standards, such as Sarbanes Oxley and PCI. comprehensive monitoring at a fraction of the cost of most competitors. Large enterprise solutions, PHD VIRTUAL IS BETTER such as Microsoft System Center Operations PHD Virtual is one of the only vendors that can Manager, can monitor just about anything. perform detailed event log and syslog monitoring However, they are expensive and require long- of devices – a capability missing from virtual term training to be able to unlock their true value. environment-specifi c monitoring tools. Additionally, PHD Virtual o ers much of what SCOM can o er at PHD Virtual can monitor specifi c fi les for changes only a fraction of the cost and time to implement. to ensure that anything archived has not been Meanwhile, other virtualization specifi c solutions altered. If an unexpected change occurs, PHD limit their scope in visibility, leaving blind spots that Virtual Monitor can alert the user. While it does not can negatively impact application and IT service always seem like a core function of an infrastructure availability and performance. monitoring solution, security and compliance monitoring adds even more enterprise value to a Robust visibility at a fraction of the cost. This is powerful product. the core of PHD Virtual Monitor’s value, and it is unmatched.

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