My view on the NEW VMware vCenter Operations
After watching the demo of VMware vCenter Operations, I would say it’s just another monitoring and diagnostic tool besides the leading two: vfoglight from Vizioncore and Veeam Monitor from Veeam, nothing really special, but it does present the trouble ones in an intuitive way by using color icons.
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Personally, I found Veeam Monitor Free Edition is already more than enough to identify the problem and find out where the latency is, the key is to look at the lowest or deepest layer, in other words, into VM itself, as the problematic VM is the most fundamental element causing the contention on Resorucs pool, ESX Host, vCenter, etc.
Then I ask myself why would VMware release such product while there are already two great products in the market? Well, I will leave this question to you in the comment.
Update Apr 5
I’ve tried the Free Xangati for ESX and don’t like it, it’s not as intuitive as Veeam Monitor.
