Monitoring VMware-based Virtual Infrastructures with OpenNMS
Monitoring VMware-based Virtual Infrastructures with OpenNMS

Summary/Abstract: Today’s IT infrastructure is more and more being virtualized. Almost every kind of component like servers, storage and network devices can be virtualized to provide a high available, scalable and sustainable environment. Server consolidation - replacing many small servers by one large physical machine - leads to an increased utilization of hardware resources, decreased power consumption for operation and cooling. Virtualization also changed the way of day-to-day operations of IT administrators. The deployment of virtual machines is an easier and simpler process than installing new physical hardware and the possibilities of moving virtual machines between host systems reduces maintenance windows and downtimes. The virtualization of hardware also introduced new ways of monitoring and measuring performance of virtualized IT services. The integration of these features in network management and monitoring systems is needed for a secure and proactive operation of virtualized infrastructures. This paper presents the idea and development process of integrating VMware vSphere virtual infrastructures in an open source enterprise-grade network management system called OpenNMS.

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