Organizations need visibility into their physical and virtual infrastructures in order to make informed decisions around utilization, efficiency, and performance for management and planning. Tek-Tools Profiler looks at utilization from a variety of parameters, providing dashboards and both detailed real-time and historical reports. Profiler for VMware removes the complexity from SAN, NAS, Direct Attached, and data protection infrastructures that virtualization adds, and ties your virtual environment to the rest of your IT infrastructure.
View Enlarged Image Profiler charts the Virtual Center average usage and I/O of important performance metrics over time.
View Enlarged Image Monitor the performance of all of your ESX servers from a single view.
Profiler empowers users to optimize the performance of their virtualized environments by providing visibility into the workload that the VMware environment puts on a server and storage infrastructure. Administrators have a tool facilitating the allocation of key resources such as CPU cycles, memory, and input/output bandwidth to an individual VM, helping to prevent unforeseen bottlenecks in any of these areas. Without proper monitoring, users can't see when an array can't handle the load, such as too much throughput, or too much I/O. If the array goes down and has an issue on the SAN, every single virtual machine is going to be negatively affected and likely crash or get corrupted.
The visibility provided by Profiler gives administrators a set of tools to manage network performance. Virtual sprawl becomes a real risk when dynamically deploying VMs, and leads to capacity and resource allocation issues. Storage can "float" around as it's automatically moved from VM host to VM host, resulting in storage allocated to hosts that may no longer be in use, making planning and trending impossible. Profiler offers users a view into the behavior of virtual machines running in production so that VMs can be created, moved, or eliminated as needed in order to optimize performance, capacity, and better scaling of guests to hosts.
Tek-Tools Profiler provides visibility into:
Top-10 busiest VM guests (CPU, RAM, Disk I/O, etc.)
Under-utilized VM guests
Busiest ESX hosts
Under-utilized ESX hosts
Wasted storage: Start with VMDK files wasted space and end with under-utilized datastores
File-age, user usage, duplicate files, forbidden files, etc. across ALL VM guests
