Business value
In modern data centers, there is a steady increase in the use of converged infrastructure solutions that include virtualization, servers, data storage devices, networking equipment and management software in a single, consolidated stack. VBlock from VCE is one such solution that unites traditionally disparate layers to offer a truly integrated solution by converging compute, network, storage, virtualization, security and management layers in a single unit. VBlock is available in a number of configurations such as VBlock 0, VBlock 1, VBlock Series 300, VBlock Series 700. BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management provides capabilities for holistic monitoring of VCE VBlock. It provides unified monitoring of performance, availability and key resource utilization of the VBlock converged infrastructure platform and applications running on it.
In addition to monitoring of traditional infrastructure components and virtualization layers, BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management provides holistic monitoring of the VBlock converged infrastructure platform making it a single pane of glass for the entire data-center irrespective of it being built on either physical, virtual or converged systems. BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management includes capabilities to cover the breadth of the entire VBlock stack as well as depth of each layer.
Key capabilities include:
- Using BMC ProactiveNet as single pane of glass for unified performance, availability and key resource utilization monitoring of each component of VBlock (applications, OS, physical or virtual host, resource pools, chassis, network switch, etc.)
- Providing topology of the VBlock hierarchy to monitor multiple layers (physical, virtual, etc.) in-context to identify relationships and root cause faster
- Auto-discovery of dynamic infrastructure to monitor a true VBlock environment at all times
- Faster provisioning and configuration monitoring for entire VBlock stack for increased TTV