Xangati for ESX
New product for real time monitoring ESX servers.
Xangati is launching new release for the Virtual Infrastructure running under VMware ESX and vSphere. It’s name is Xangati for ESX. This second edition of Xangati is coming 5 months later after it’s first release in March 2010 . There are two versions of Xangati for ESX available. A free (limited) version and paid one. The Free version has all the functionalities of the paid one, but the monitoring is limited to one ESX host and to 10 IP identities.
The strength of Xangati - real-time monitoring. But not only real-time monitoring helps you to know what’s happening right now in your virtual infrastructure. Xangati can be coupled with a vCenter alarms where Xangati is capable to record when vCenter alarm is triggered. During the time alarm is on, Xangati records the situation, and you can replay that period of time later. It’s like a digital video recorder.
Xangati is a virtual appliance which is deployed from .OVF file, so you don’t have to install the solution in a dedicated VM or Server. It’s pre-packaged with its own configuration, virtual hard disks and OS. You deploy Xangati from your vCenter or from your ESX(i) host by importing the OVF template.
All the configuration of disk and network adapters of that Virtual Machine are pre-defined and pre-configured so the installation and configuration it’s pretty straightforward with some differences between the standard and the PRO versions.
Xangati’s main functions:
- Monitors multiple data sources, like traffic traversing vSwitches and VMware API.
- Optimized for visibility and troubleshooting in a real time.
- GUI with drill-down functionalities and views with streaming data and full details for VMs and the ESX.
- Auto discovery and naming of VMs, hosts, applications.
- DVR recordings triggered by VMware alerts or, one-click Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) end-user initiated problem recordings.
- Track my views with rolling 60 minute DVR rewind
In case you’re using VDI, with Xangati in place, the remote users, if experiencing difficulties (slow network, slow application) when accessing their Virtual desktops, they’re able to record the situation…. They’re actually can click on a button in a webpage to record the situation they’re in. They can trigger the DVR recording remotely... together with creating a support ticket…. It’s not like when you’re having a user on the phone saying.. “it’s slow…….. “, but what is slow…? You know what I mean…
You’re actually able to see what’s happening on the user’s side by having access to the recording the user has made for you… That’s powerful….
To put Xangati in place it takes you no more than 15-20 minutes for the pro version, and even less for the Free version, since the Free version of Xangati does support DHCP configuration of it’s network interface.
The pro version has some more advanced configuration steps involved but with the step-by-step install instructions provided there shouldn’t be a problem.
The Xangati appliance, after the first boot collects the informations from your network and starts monitoring your ESX environment. Xangati was designed for real time problems and to be able to record that situation easily.
Then if you want to have a closer look at the monitored resource, for example the production network, just double click that point and you’re taken deep further and see more details about that resource.
“Xangati has raised the bar for free VMware tools by giving VI administrators a solution that actually supplements the functions of their virtualization management framework,” said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president of enterprise research at Yankee Group. “Because it was specifically optimized for visibility and troubleshooting, it provides real-time problem-solving capabilities. Xangati for ESX is a must-have for any VMware toolbox.”
- Xangati for ESX free version can monitor one ESX server with up to 10 IP identities.
- The Pro version of Xangati can monitor 100 IP identities.
What if you want to monitor several ESX servers, I mean the whole Virtual Infrastructure. You can deploy the free version of Xangati on each server and setup the monitoring for each ESX server separately (or use the PRO version for that), and you can use a Xangati Management Dashboard, which is another product, for an aggregate view.
Xangati Management Dashbord (XMD) interact directly with different ESX Servers and also with vCenter. XMD leverages all the informations provided by the individual ESX servers in one main dashboard interface.
XMD can receive SNMP traps triggered by vCenter alerts for both ESX hosts and VMs. This will triggers an automated DVR recording on a problem object, so the admin team can analyses the data. The recordings can be easily shared, they also facilitate transparency between the VI team and the application/server owner for better joint problem resolution.
A video presenting the installation setup process has been made by Xangati:
Source: Xangati
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