This space contains information about version 1.1.00 of the BMC Performance Manager solution for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). BMC Performance Manager for IaaS provides BMC PATROL for Amazon Web Services (BMC PATROL for AWS), a Knowledge Module (KM) that monitors IaaS accounts provided by Amazon Web Services.

Featured content

The following featured topics describe the release of BMC Performance Manager for IaaS:

• To understand the business value of this solution, see Business-value.
• To understand the features supported, see User-goals-and-features
• To configure and monitor accounts provided by Amazon Web Services, see Configuring-after-installation.

Where to start

For a description of the flow of product tasks, see Configuring-after-installation.

About BMC Performance Manager for IaaS

BMC Performance Manager for IaaS allows you to discover and monitor resources in the public cloud environment. The solution enables you to monitor performance of the cloud environment and optimize the service level by using the following capabilities:

• Automatically discovering and monitoring resources in the public cloud environment
• Organizing performance and availability data by cloud instance and by resource classification (for example, disk, CPU, or network I/O)
• Producing historical performance charts and status views
• Relating cloud instances to business services and applications
• Accessing baseline performance data from the instances to produce predictive alerts in the context of the application or service
• Identifying when application or service problems are resulting from failures in the cloud components
• Raising intelligent alerts and incidents for service desk resolution