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VMware vFabric Hyperic Manage Application Performance Across Physical, Virtual and Cloud Infrastructures

application availability & performance Overview VMware vFabric™ Hyperic® is the application monitoring • Install, setup and start managing your application component of the VMware vFabric Cloud Application Platform, infrastructure in minutes. enabling IT professionals to manage the performance and availability of custom Web applications in physical, virtual and • Auto-discovery gives you a continuously updated cloud environments. Its unique ability to automatically discover, inventory of all hardware, software and services inventory, and monitor servers, regardless of type or location, in your infrastructure. enables application operations teams to ensure that business- • Realtime performance visibility into your entire critical apps run without fail. Hyperic collects a vast range of software stack, from VMware vSphere™ and performance data—50,000 metrics across 75 application virtual machine, through the operating system, technologies—and is easily extended to monitor any component to application payload. in your application stack. • Correlate performance metrics with configuration With fast deployment, a fully extensible framework and user changes, log data and security events for fast interface, and support for both virtualized and physical root-cause diagnosis. infrastructure at scale, Hyperic is the standard for Web • Define intelligent alerts, acknowledgements and operations teams of all sizes. response actions to anticipate and address problems before they cause outages. Market Leading Virtualization Support • Run cross-platform diagnostics and execute control As part of the VMware family of products, vFabric Hyperic operations across your entire infrastructure centrally. provides best-in-class performance monitoring of applications • Accurately model and display the relationships running in virtualized environments. With its deep VMware between hardware, virtual machines, applications vCenter™ integration, Hyperic monitors your entire application and services. infrastructure inventory, from code components down to VMware ESX®, and continually updates this inventory as virtual • Analyze real-time and historical metrics across machines are started, stopped and vMotioned. This eliminates hardware, network and application layers. reliance on chronically out-of-date configuration management • Baseline performance trends to formulate SLAs databases, and enables system administrators to more rapidly and measure compliance. pinpoint, correct and prevent application performance • Role-based dashboards, metrics, charts & alerts problems wherever they occur across physical, virtual and let you customize Hyperic for the needs of each cloud infrastructures. Hyperic’s virtualization-aware alerting team member. distinguishes between when a guest operating system has shut down unintentionally, and when it has been intentionally • Proven scalability to thousands of servers. powered down or suspended. This prevents false alarms and enables system administrators to scale down application infrastructure without triggering alert storms.

“vFabric Hyperic has given us the clarity and context to keep applications running optimally, and it has done Deep Functionality for Managing Complex so economically. vFabric Hyperic’s extensibility allows Web Applications us to correlate the performance of our customer-facing VMware vFabric Hyperic provides the automation and built-in applications with metrics collected throughout our intelligence necessary for Web operations teams to manage infrastructure – visibility that enables us to better applications at scale. Designed to power scalable, secure Web understand today’s challenges and plan for future applications, Hyperic saves time and ensures comprehensive change. With vFabric Hyperic, we never need to guess management of business-critical services. vFabric Hyperic about the experience of our end users. We know exactly features include: what it is.” • Complete deployment automation, including the ability to — Jason DeHaan, Deputy CIO City of Chicago, July 2009 copy and reuse monitoring configurations and global alert templates, to bring resources under management in under a minute.

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• Automated problem resolution, enabling administrators to Comprehensive Technology Support define automatic responses to performance problems, such as a server or virtual machine restart, letting you fix problems Hyperic manages a broad range of products including before customers notice. application servers, Web servers, databases, operating systems, hypervisors, messaging servers and directory servers. Hyperic • Enterprise alerting includes multi-conditional and recovery uses the native management capabilities of the managed alerts, role-based notifications, server group alerting, products, and can be easily extended to cover more products escalations, planned downtime, and follow-the-sun notifications. through our Plugin Development Kit (PDK)–usually with only a • Extended security options including support for role- few lines of XML. based access control, dashboards, and alerts, external authentication for LDAP and Kerberos directories and , Windows, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Free Operating Systems BSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, Cisco IOS uni-directional agent communication to track resources & PIXOS beyond the firewall. VMware vSphere, vCenter, vCloud Director, Virtualization • Extended analysis tools include advanced dashboard VI3, GSX; Xen VM charting, capacity planning, baselining and built-in reporting. Application Spring, JEE, J2EE, LAMP, .NET, JMX, MX4J, • Enterprise-level scalability and high availability Platforms Sun JVM deployment options. Tomcat , WebLogic, WebSphere, .NET, tc server, Geronimo, Caucho , Glassfish, Application Servers Open Source Extensibility for your Unique JBoss, , JOnAS, JRun, ColdFusion, Oracle Environment , MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Hyperic HQ is an open source subset of VMware vFabric Hyperic Databases PostgreSQL, Informix, Sybase Adaptive Server, that provides Web application performance monitoring to help CouchDB, GemFire, iAnywhere pinpoint, correct and prevent problems at every infrastructure Apache, IIS, Memcached, GemFire, , layer, including hardware, networks, virtualization and applications. Web & Proxy Servers , Squid, SunONE/iPlanet Designed for smaller-scale production deployments, developers and testing teams, Hyperic HQ can: Messaging ActiveMQ, IBM MQ Series, MSMQ, RabbitMQ, Middleware Hadoop • Auto-discover software resources across physical, virtual and Network NetScaler, Samba, Vyatta, WxGoos, ZXTM cloud-based infrastructure. Management • Monitor performance, configuration and security changes. Directory Services Microsoft Active Directory, OpenLDAP • Alert team of performance problems, errors or inventory changes. Microsoft Exchange, Zimbra, Sendmail, Postfix, Email Servers • Diagnose errors, correct problems and report performance centrally. qmail, IBM Lotus Domino • View resources by logical groupings—for instance, all SNMP, HTTP, DHCP, DNS, FTP, IMAP, LDAP, Agentless Monitoring NTP, Ping, POP3, RPC, SMTP, SSH, TCP, SQL Java servers or all components for an application—to best Queries, Selenium synthetic transactions manage your unique environment , Wordpress, Alfresco, Bind, Mule ESB, Other Software Asterisk, Sensatronics, Microsoft Terminal Services Monitoring Tool Nagios, OpenNMS, SNMP to OpenView, Tivoli, Integrations Patrol, and Unicenter

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