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Compute monitoring refers to the process of observing and managing the performance, utilization, and health of computing resources within an IT environment. These resources include servers, virtual machines, processors, memory, and other components that are essential for running applications and services.

Key aspects of compute monitoring include:

1. Resource Utilization: Tracking the usage of CPU, memory, disk, and network resources to ensure they are operating within optimal parameters.
2. Performance Metrics: Monitoring key performance indicators such as response time, throughput, and latency to ensure that systems are performing as expected.
3. Health Monitoring: Checking the status and health of compute resources to detect any issues or failures that could impact system performance.
4. Capacity Planning: Analyzing historical data to forecast future resource needs and ensure adequate capacity to handle growth and peak loads.
5. Alerting and Notifications: Setting up alerts to notify administrators of any anomalies, potential issues, or performance degradation so they can take proactive measures.

Compute monitoring is essential for maintaining the reliability, efficiency, and performance of IT infrastructure, ensuring that applications and services run smoothly and meet user expectations.

vROps is a great tool for skilled VMware admins and architects. However, its depth and
complexity make it impractical for broader teams who need visibility and optimization
with less time and less effort.

Moreover, the uncertainty surrounding Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware is causing hesitation among teams concerned about becoming too dependent on VMware. Besides concerns about increasing costs, relying on vROps for virtualization visibility means that any virtual workloads placed outside of VMware would require yet another monitoring tool.

Visual One Intelligence™ provides robust yet simplified multi-vendor compute, storage,
and cloud reporting that is compatible across VMware, Nutanix & beyond and:

• is simpler to use than vROps;
• correlates seamlessly with the rest of your infrastructure;
• optimizes your costs, asset ROI, and migration efforts;
• promotes operational continuity;
• uses a single frictionless pricing model.

Visual One Intelligence monitors and optimizes virtualization and other related environments (such as VMware, Nutanix, HCI, container, and cloud infrastructure). Analysis and features include:

• Capacity planning and utilization forecasting
• Performance trends analysis
• Health & configuration alerts
• Predictive AI risk assessments and anomaly detection
• Zombie VMDK detection
• Workload rightsizing and resource optimization
• Migration planning and cross-platform cost comparisons
• Chargeback / showback

Visual One Intelligence is compatible with on-prem storage, backup, SAN, cloud, compute, HCI, containers, databases, and more. From a compute and virtualization perspective, that includes:

• VMware
• Nutanix
• Tintri
• Verge.io
• AWS
• Azure
• …and more.

Visual One Intelligence can reduce virtualization costs by uncovering hidden waste and opportunities for improved efficiency in virtual workloads and resource allocations, leading to major savings in yearly consumption costs and contracts.

In addition, Visual One makes it easier to investigate whether or not it will be cost-effective to migrate certain workloads to other platforms, providing migration and cost analytics that compare your current usage and spending with the hypothetical costs on a different platform.

Visual One Intelligence’s capacity planning – including proprietary capacity scores and cluster modeling tools – makes it much easier to budget for the future and anticipate the impact of future projects, so you can avoid over-spending on contracts or unecessary purchases.

Yes! With a standard subscription you have full, 24/7 VMware compute data collection and reporting – including all of our reports, dashboards, and virtual assistant insights.

If a standard Visual One Intelligence™ subscription isn’t the right fit for you, virtualization monitoring is available as a stand-alone offering dedicated solely to reporting in compute environments.

Either way, you can try us out free for 30 days.

Our single-pane-of-glass reporting gives access to crucial compute visibility in three clicks or less. For IT storage & cloud teams, this can have many impacts including:

• Helping evaluate VMware alternatives
• Planning workload migrations
• Optimizing performance
• Comparing workload costs on other platforms
• Evaluating waste within workloads and right-sizing workloads
• Choosing which workloads to migrate based on performance needs & cost
• Finding hidden misconfigurations and preventing outages or performance errors
• Capacity planning with enhanced accuracy
• Easily finding and correcting unbalanced clusters and VMs
• Forecasting the impact of future changes on capacity & performance
• Replacing VMware Aria Operations (vROps)
• Finding “zombie VMDKs” resulting in additional free storage space

We report on VMware capacity, health, utilization, and more – at multiple levels (including, datastore, host, cluster, and VM):

• Days remaining until capacity is reached
• Capacity & performance trend reports
• Capacity & performance forecasting
• Proprietary capacity scores
• Unbalanced workloads alerts
• Balancing recommendations (CPU / memory / disk)
• Cost comparisons by workload (on-prem cost vs. cloud cost)
• Money wasted / money saved cost analysis per workload
• Over-allocation alerts
• Over-utilization alerts
• Misconfigurations