Zenoss
Inc., the leading provider of unified monitoring and service
analytics for virtual, physical and cloud-based IT infrastructures,
today deepened its commitment to monitoring complex and dynamic VMware
environments by announcing the VMware NSX ZenPack.
VMware NSX is a network virtualization platform that provisions and
manages a fully-functional network in software, including logical
networking elements and services such as logical switches, routers,
firewalls, and load balancers, independent of the underlying hardware.
The new Zenoss ZenPack for VMware NSX collects the network model from
NSX Manager and monitors the health and performance of the various
logical components. It supports VMware NSX used in both VMware vSphere
and OpenStack environments.
NSX administrators using Zenoss Service Impact have access to a
graphical model of the relationships between logical network components
and the hypervisors and virtual machines they support. This translates
to faster identification of problems in the virtual network
infrastructure and a better understanding of the impact on consumers of
logical network services.
“The future of the datacenter is software defined everything and network
virtualization technology like VMware NSX is an essential element of
this powerful IT transformation,” said Marcus MacNeill, Zenoss Vice
President of Product Management. “The new ZenPack for VMware NSX works
in concert with Zenoss’ extensive monitoring support for vSphere and
OpenStack environments, bringing Software Defined Operations to these
highly virtualized infrastructures.”
ZenPacks are pre-built connectors for Zenoss that add the ability to
monitor new types of devices, but can also be used to add new
capabilities to the software itself. This extensibility is a key
differentiator and critical capability for Zenoss, as datacenter
complexity spirals ever upward. ZenPacks can be easily developed using
ZenPack Library (zenpacklib) which utilizes declarative YAML to simplify
ZenPack development while increasing quality and consistency.
There are hundreds of ZenPacks available, some developed and supported
by Zenoss, and many others that are developed and maintained by the
Zenoss user community. The full list can be found here: http://wiki.zenoss.org/ZenPack_Catalog