Xangati announced that it has released a new and improved version of its free Xangati for ESX/ESXi management tool, incorporating customer feedback and streamlining its installation process to facilitate easier, more intuitive and faster virtual deployment. In addition to the new enhancements, Xangati also announced that since being introduced last year, its free VMware tool has been downloaded more than three thousand times worldwide, as VI administrators turn to and install the no-cost management solution to help plan, monitor and manage their virtualized environments.
“As reflected by the large number of downloads, Xangati for ESX has and is continuing to generate a tremendous amount of interest from the industry,” said Alan Robin, CEO of Xangati. “With this enhanced version, we have taken steps to integrate new functionality based on specific user feedback. Xangati is committed to listen and respond to the needs of VI administrators in order to add value to their virtualization initiatives through the integration of advanced capabilities into our infrastructure performance management (IPM) solutions, including our free Xangati for ESX.”
The new version of Xangati for ESX was designed specifically to make the installation process as simple as possible and provides VI administrators with the following benefits and features:
- A new and simplified GUI-based appliance set up – for getting the appliance addressed, powered-up and on the network – launched directly from the vCenter console tab;
- Standardization on one virtual appliance covering dynamic and static IP addressed data center segments;
- Streamlining of the steps required to enable Xangati to gather and summarize traffic traversing a vSwitch;
- Fifty percent reduction in the screens required to get to a working Xangati UI.
Available immediately – at absolutely no cost – Xangati for ESX gives VI administrators the ability to implement its real-time monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for both server virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments.
A fully-functioning management tool, Xangati for ESX goes far beyond the capabilities of other free VMware or trial software tools by providing VI administrators with comprehensive and robust performance management that includes: continuous real-time insights into VMs and the ESX; a superior navigational drill-down user interface (UI) presentation; multiple data sources, including traffic traversing vSwitches and the VMware API; and Xangati’s unique and acclaimed DVR-recordings – allowing VI administrators to visually see and capture a problem through recordings triggered by VMware alerts.
Xangati for ESX works with VMware 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 for ESX and ESXi. To download an enhanced version of the free Xangati for ESX tool and try it yourself, go to http://www.xangati.com/free-download. You can also watch a video describing the free Xangati for ESX for additional background at http://www.youtube.com/user/xangati.