Access to available data
EPV for VMware uses a light agent which collects all the input data provided by the standard VSPHERE SDK application program interface providing easy access to all the VIRTUAL CENTER HOST and GUEST information.

Performance Analysis in a ... click
EPV for VMware provides:
• a complete vision of the “health” and condition of all the most important systems resources such as CPU, memory, I/O, datastore space, etc.
• the ability to aggregate systems by different CLUSTERs enabling a much quicker and more effective control of large system estates
• automatic exceptions analysis which identify resource bottlenecks and other anomalies
• the ability to analyze all I/O components as datastores, storage adapters, storage paths and virtual disks
• the ability to compare systems using different benchmarks such as MHZ, SPECINT and many others
• auditing of configuration changes as well as detailed reporting of the hardware and software configuration
• daily, weekly and monthly trends.

Using “de facto” Standard Technologies
All reports are produced in simple static HTML pages, published on a server of your choice and can be accessed by your favourite “browser”. All the tables provided in the reports can be exported individually or together in a MS-Excel spread sheet.

Architecture
EPV for VMware architecture is based on the following three layers:
• An interface to collect input data
• An engine to correlate and aggregate data
• An engine to produce HTML pages.

The interface to collect input data is designed to optimize performance and consumptions of the loading phase, avoiding duplication or loss of data. It uses simple exits that adapt the product to the environment characteristics; a set of ready exits for each data type to acquire is provided.

The engine to correlate and aggregate data builds an SQL relational Data Base, containing only those metrics used by the product and automatically aggregated at the monthly, daily and hourly level. You can customize the product by setting the appropriate parameters and values to keep in your EPV Performance Data Base the desired time periods.

The engine to produce the HTML pages can be customized to:
• produce the HTML pages of specific days
• reports daily trends for a desired period
• set the thresholds for the usage of different resources
• set the interested time shift
• report the top processes, disks, network interfaces
• and much more …

Requirements
EPV for VMware Plus has no pre-requisites.