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vmSight Detailed Product Review |
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008
by Michel Roth
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Performance management in these virtual times is becoming more and more important. VMware acknowledged this with their acquisition of B-Hive. Even though the market of performance management on virtualized systems a pretty new there are more players than just B-Hive (VMware). vmSight is one that recently got reviewed.
Bernd Harzog published an in-depth review of vmSight: Now that VMware has
bought B-hive, and thereby putting a stake in the ground that
establishes (at least in their opinion) how the performance of
virtualized systems should be measured and managed, it is time to take
a look around and see what else exists that is either complementary to
B-hive, or a credible alternative (since we like having choices).
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first and most obvious place to look was vmSight, since this is a
product that is in many ways extremely similar to B-hive. Both are
implemented as virtual appliances that sit on the mirror ports within
the virtual hosts, and can thereby see the network traffic between
guests within a host and between different hosts.
The key
difference between the two is that B-hive provides more visibility up
into the transactions that comprise various applications than vmSight
does, and that vmSight provides more visibility into the actual users
than B-hive does. This results in vmSight being appropriate as a
solution for VDI which is not one of B-hive's strengths. As a matter of
fact, vmSight works very closely with the VDI team at VMware, and is
often recommended by the VDI team at VMware as a performance management
solution for VDI implementations.
Read the vmSight Detailed Product Review.
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