VMAN and IVIM feature comparison

Feature

SAM/NPM

IVIM Module

Virtualization Manager

View virtualization environment tree with up/down status and top 10 counters (both VMware & Hyper-V)

Yes

Host & VM should be managed node in SAM.

Yes

Host and VM performance metrics (CPU, memory, network, average response time & packet Loss)

Yes

Yes

Virtualization host hardware health

Yes

Yes

Alerts for virtualization-specific issues

• Memory swap
• Memory ballooning
• VM CPU ready
• Zombie/idle/stale VM
• Large/old VM sanpshots
• VM disk near full
• VM disk latency (IOPS)
• Datastore I/O latency
• VM resources under/overallocated

No

Yes

Historical forensics map providing contextual relationship mapping over time

No

Yes

Virtualization management tools (power off VM, suspend VM, reboot VM, take snapshot of VM, delete snapshots, change CPU/memory resources, move VM to a different host, move VM to a different storage)

No

Yes

VM sprawl monitoring (idle VM, power off VMs, orphaned VMDK files, VM snapshots)

No

Yes

Alert remediation with management actions

No

Yes

VM Right sizing with recommendations

No

Yes

Datastore performance monitoring

No

Yes

Performance explorer graph providing correlation insight between virtualization n metrics

No

Yes

Capacity Planning  - “What if” scenario planning & resource depletion

No

Yes

Chargeback and showback metrics (track how the virtual machines are being used over time)

No

Yes

Calculate cost of moving virtual infrastructure to Amazon EC2

No

Yes

Out-of-the-box virtualization performance reports

Limited

Yes

AppStack Environment dashboard on Orion interface

Yes

WPM + SAM + SRM + VMan

Yes

WPM + SAM + SRM + VMan