Get AliveVM Free with vSphere
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 3:02PM Between now and March 1, 2011, buy any eligible vSphere Standard, Advanced, Enterprise or Enterprise Plus edition, upgrade to any of these editions, or purchase any vSphere Acceleration Kit that contains these editions and receive a license to manage up to 50 virtual machines with VMware AliveVM.
You may not have heard about it but it certainly looks like a valuable tool to get a comprehensive view of overall performance for the entire vSphere environment; health, performance and capacity. Heat maps easily locate trouble areas and mapping of virtual machines to host, cluster and datacenter combined with trended analytics enable quick and effective problem solving. The Alive VM product was developed by Integrien, a Irvine, California company that VMware purchased back in August of 2010.
With AliveVM, VM Administrators are no longer forced to rely on classic monitoring tools and techniques that provide limited insight into the performance of their virtual infrastructure. With the introduction of AliveVM, they are provided with detailed behavioral analysis of the entire virtual environment. AliveVM also provides a real-time summary of performance Health, Workload usage, and Capacity forecasts for each and every virtual element (e.g., Virtual Machines, ESX Servers, Clusters, Storage LUNs and Network elements).
Find out more by following this link: www.alivevm.com or VMware Promotions.