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VMware Monitoring with PRTG

Keep a 24/7 eye on your entire VMware infrastructure

  • Preconfigured sensors to monitor every detail of your virtual environment
  • Official VMware technology partner for many years
  • Monitor health and performance data of your VMware hosts and virtual machines
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PRTG makes VMware vSphere monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent virtual machine performance issues and problesm with your vSphere environment.

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3 reasons to use PRTG as your VMware monitoring tool

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Keep track of your virtual environment

Virtualization works best if you can keep an eye on CPU load, disk usage, performance, and network utilization of your VMs. If an issue arises there, then there will also be an issue with the virtual machines – which means you'll soon be struggling with compounding problems.

VMware monitoring with Paessler PRTG allows you to keep track of all parts of your virtual environment – from the host server to the applications running on each virtual server.

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Be alerted to VMware issues promptly

If too many virtual machines run on one host, it can lead to system overload and performance issues. With PRTG, you can set customized warning and error thresholds (for example, at 75%).

If this threshold is crossed, you’ll quickly receive a notification by email, SMS, push, and more. This way, you’re alerted to problems before your clients or coworkers are aware that anything is wrong. use the tone and voice of your organization.

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Optional hosted infrastructure monitoring

PRTG is also available as a hosted monitoring solution (Monitoring as a Service). You can easily get the cloud-based tool up and running within minutes, and it offers the full range of features.

With our comprehensive PRTG VMware monitoring tools – on premises or in the cloud – any potential trouble spots will be instantly visible so you can take quick action.

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We are a VMware Technology Alliance Partner

Paessler achieved VMware's highest level of endorsement due to our technological excellence, leading market position, and superior compatibility with VMware products.

What does this mean for you?

  • Easy integration of VMware components with PRTG
  • State-of-the-art features for monitoring your virtual environment
  • Expert technical support around your VMware monitoring setup

What VMware monitoring looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking VMware vSphere performance and the health of your VMware ESXi servers and hypervisors. Show VM monitoring stats, CPU usage, resource usage, uptime, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot VMware tools, virtual machines, and devices.

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Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup

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Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure

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Live traffic data graph in PRTG

Start VMware performance monitoring with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.

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IT experts agree: Paessler PRTG is a great solution for IT infrastructure monitoring

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“All-around winning
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IT Brief

“The real beauty of PRTG is the endless possibilities it offers”

ITPro

“PRTG Network Monitor 
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ESXi and VM monitoring

Although our sensors for monitoring ESXi host hardware servers work only directly with your VMware ESX 5+ server and its parent devices, you can also use the VMware Virtual Machine (SOAP) sensor to monitor your virtual machines in two different ways:

  • To communicate directly with a VMware ESXi host server to monitor the virtual machines running on it
  • To communicate with a VMware vCenter installation to monitor all the virtual machines managed by the vCenter server

Monitoring the vCenter server allows you to continue to monitor virtual machines directly, even after they change physical hosts with vMotion.

Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG VMware monitoring solution

Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.

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Why use PRTG VMware monitoring software instead of VMware vRealize?

Unlike VMware vRealize Operations, PRTG offers monitoring of your virtual machines on different levels and keeps track of your physical servers, server hardware, and much more.

Another advantage is that PRTG allows you to monitor all the other elements and services in your network, such as the bandwidth usage of your applications, the availability and performance of your websites, and the available disk space of your network drives.

“With PRTG, you get a centralized, intuitive, all-in-one tool that monitors the entire infrastructure. In the event of an error, the software immediately informs you by email. If you don’t hear from PRTG, you can sit back and relax, knowing everything is in order. Shortly after implementing PRTG, we were able to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in our VMware environment and load problems in our network.”

Steffen Ille, Head of Infrastructure, Service Center for Computer Systems and Communication
Bauhaus University Weimar

“The demands on our entire IT infrastructure have grown steadily in recent years. An important step towards the optimization of this environment involved the virtualization of our digital landscape. In order to maintain the required transparency and the uninterrupted performance of all our systems, we needed a powerful network monitoring tool. For us, the most important selection criteria were price-performance ratio and ease of use. PRTG met all our expectations and has proven to be an indispensable part of our network management.”

Daniel Baumgartner, Network Administrator
Volkswind

Your VMware monitor at a glance – even on the go

PRTG is set up in a matter of minutes and can be used on a wide variety of mobile devices.

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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG VMware monitoring solution

Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.

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VMware Monitoring: FAQ

 

What is VMware?

VMware is a leading virtualization and cloud computing software company. It provides a range of products and solutions for virtualizing computing, networking, storage, and management resources in data centers. VMware's flagship product is its virtualization platform, which allows multiple operating systems to run on a single physical server concurrently.

What is VMware monitoring?

VMware monitoring allows you to keep a constant eye on important application and performance data of your virtual machines. This includes parameters like CPU load, memory usage or downtime. By monitoring VMware, you are always up to date with the performance of your virtual machines.

Why should I monitor my VMware virtual machines?

Monitoring virtual machines is essential for maintaining optimal performance, ensuring the reliability of services, and making informed decisions about resource allocation and capacity planning in virtualized environments.

VMware virtual machine monitoring with PRTG allows you to keep track of all parts of your virtual environment – from the host server to the applications running on each VM.

Why is virtualization important?

Virtualization using VMware products, for example, is a crucial part of many IT environments and an effective way to reduce expenses while boosting efficiency and flexibility of your business. It allows you to distribute applications and databases over different servers, networks, and locations. To avoid downtimes and ensure a good overall performance, you should monitor your VMware servers and all of your virtual machines.

What is a sensor in PRTG?

In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive. On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.

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More than 500,000 sysadmins love PRTG

Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.

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Monitor your entire IT infrastructure

Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.

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Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.

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Start VMware performance monitoring with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.

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