Hi forum
I am a heavy Solarwinds user but i have not really done much in the virtualisation space yet with the Solarwinds toolset. i generally rely on the basic monitoring capability of VMware plugin to NPM. However, i need more.. i need capacity, performance and availability, including hardware if possible. On top of that, I need to be able to monitor multiple remote customers’ VMware environments. Most of these customers reside at the end of site-to-site VPNs or leased lines. I of course also want to monitor my own infrastructure from the same toolset.
In an ideal world, the customers would be able to view their own infrastructure within the NPM console without being able to see any other customers stuff being monitored within the virtual manager module. So, questions:
1. Does the virtual manager product integrate into the Solarwinds NPM console?
2. If number 1 is true, then does it integrate to the alerting engine within NPM?
3. How does the Virtual Manager application communicate with the VMware components? (ESX hosts, Virtual Centre) Is it over 443? Anything else?
4. How many VMware infrastructures can a single application installation connect to?
I a sure I have more questions, but they generally will be as a result of the above questions
Hope you can help forum….
Cheers
dan