The Server Manager works in conjunction with the IP Manager and the 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