Netuitive Delivers Smart Management Software for VMware

Netuitive has announced its entrance into the virtualization world with the release of Netuitive SI for VMware, a software management solution that the company says will help IT managers balance their resource performance and quickly identify poorly performing or problem virtual machines.

Netuitive SI for VMware is designed to help IT administrators identify performance problems in their VMware environment. The software can identify problems with virtual machines, the host environment, and the resource pools and can also analyze and map the interdependencies in the performance relationships found within this dynamic virtual environment. According to George Hamilton of the Yankee Group, “The elements in a virtual environment are highly interdependent. Trying to understand the meaning and impact of their relationships to one another is humanly impossible.”

That’s where Netuitive comes in. Netuitive SI installs on the host server and integrates with VMware’s VirtualCenter. The software scans the environment and monitors the host server, the virtual machines and the applications on them to learn normal behavior for the entire environment as well as the relationships between each component. In this way, the software can then intelligently identify any components that behave outside of the normal parameters. And unlike existing infrastructure monitoring software which is setup with human created thresholds and plagued with false negatives, Netuitive SI for VMware self-learns and cross-correlates the performance behavior characteristics of the virtual infrastructure allowing for performance degradation forecasts up to 2 hours in advance, immediate pinpointing of problems and proactive managing of system health.

Netuitive SI for VMware includes several features that provide performance management capabilities in a virtual environment, including:

• Self-learns the performance behavior of VMware ESX host servers and the contextual performance of each guest VM.

• Automates threshold administration of the ESX server and for each guest VM, including for application performance.

• Automatically identifies “badly behaving” VMs which are choking performance of the ESX server.

• Monitors and self-learns the resource profile of each VM and how it relates to the overall resource pool.

• Integrates quickly and seamlessly with Virtual Center, requiring no manual rules, scripts or thresholds – and no agents.

Netuitive SI for VMware is expected to be available by April 2 with a cost of $5,000 per host server and $200 per virtual machine.