The industry is trending toward the concept of observability as organizations aim to aggregate an array of operational data from their IT environments to generate deeper insights to monitor and optimize applications and infrastructure. However, achieving holistic observability is possible when the strategy is underpinned by effective monitoring and management practices, which is being complicated by the ongoing challenge of tool sprawl.

VMware virtualizes servers and consolidates resource allocation and usage. However, to reap the full benefits of this technology, it's important to understand the challenges surrounding VMware to overcome them and fully optimize their use. For this, it is necessary to understand the architecture of VMware resources, their usage, and performance at every step. To build a successful virtual environment, you have to first observe, understand, and evaluate the current trends and performance of your IT infrastructure, and then plan resource allocation for the future based on this analysis. This whitepaper illustrates the need to monitor different CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics and explains how these metrics provide visibility to your virtual environment. It will also discuss how each of them is important to eliminate over-commitment and under-provisioning.