The VMware Smart Assurance Server Manager works in conjunction with the VMware Smart Assurance IP Manager and the VMware Smart Assurance Service Assurance Manager to discover, monitor, and analyze availability and performance of the following environmental and software elements:

  • VMware®® virtual products, including:

    • VMware ESX server including VSphere

    • Virtual Machine

    • VMware NSX Manager

    • VirtualCenter (the VMware element management system)

    • Virtual Datastore, including:

      • Host Bus Adapter

      • IPStoragePath

      • ScsiLun

      • ScsiPath

      • DataPathRedundancyGroup

      • VMwareDataStoreCluster

    • Virtual Switch

    • VMware Clusters

    • LoadBalancerVirtualServer

    • Logical Router

    • Logical Switches

    • Logical Ports

    • EdgeGateway

    • Control Clusters

    • Controller Nodes

    • Transport Node Interfaces and Transport Connectors

    • Transport Zones

    • Tunnels

    • VirtualLoadBalancerPool

    • VirtualLoadBalancerService

    • Virtual interfaces (vNIC)

    • Hypervisor

  • Microsoft hypervisor-based server virtualization product: Hyper-V

  • KVM hypervisor management:

    • CloudController

    • Kernal-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor

    • Tenant

    • Virtual Machine

  • Citrix®® XenServer®® products, including:

    • Hypervisor

    • Virtual Machine

  • Storage Area Network elements, including:

    • Fabric

    • FibreChannelArrayPort

    • FibreChannelHostPort

    • FibreChannelSwitch

    • FibreChannelSwitchPort

    • StorageArray

    • StorageArrayAdapter

    • PortLink

    • InterSwitchLink

    • ISLGroup

    • PhysicalDisk

    • SparePhysicalDisk

    • RAIDGroup

  • Clusters (protection groups), including:

    • Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS)

  • F5 BIG-IP load balancer

  • Process monitoring. Determines when application processes are down, or when the number of instances of application processes is above or below a configured threshold.

  • Environmental and host resource objects:

    • Environmental topology objects include:

      • TemperatureSensor

      • PowerSupply

      • Fan

      • VoltageSensor

    • Host Resource topology objects include:

      • Disk

      • FileSystem

      • Host

      • Interface

      • Memory

      • MemoryGroup

      • Processor

      • ProcessorGroup