This month, we discussed some interesting new developments concerning the inherent integrations in the Orion platform. Our NCM PM also gave a brief overview of what’s new in 7.2 including a demo of the new features.
Integration with SAM & NPMIntegrates and extends existing Virtualization Summary and Vmware and Hyper-V specific viewsAdds 4 new views to get a better picture of your entire virtual environment: Storage, Sprawl, Map, DashboardsInsight from Application to the DatastoreVisually understand relationships in your virtual infrastructure and where issues are currently occurring.Focus on an issue by altering the context on the Map to any node.Quickly drill down to the SAM/NPM node view to diagnose application, OS and network issues.New Storage sub-viewThe Storage sub-view slices up your resources according to your virtual environment configuration, allowing you to focus your attention on the data in each area.Identify the busiest Datastores, drill down to identify which VM and Application is causing the load.Identify the busiest VM's, drill to the datastore and see what other VM's are affected.Identify which Datastores and VM's are low on storage and which ones will run out first.Visually map relationships between the datastore and other nodes, ranked by current status.See additional alerts (from Virtualization Manager) indicating configuration and performance problems, drill down to see suggestive corrective actions