Virtualization visibility clear as can be with Xangati

Xangati offers a suite of virtual appliances comprising Xangati for ESX and Xangati Management Dashboard. Xangati for ESX integrates with VMware's hypervisor to summarize traffic traversing a vSwitch, providing real-time visibility. Xangati Management Dashboard, available in standard and enterprise editions, can track up to 5,000 identities -- a hypervisor, virtual server, virtual desktop or VoIP phone, for example -- providing enterprise-wide visibility, alerting, reporting and recording for hundreds of applications, the company says.

My company runs multiple blades centers across two data centers with numerous hosts and had the [visibility] problem you wrote about, Garcia said in an e-mail. Xangati has a solution that not only let me see virtual-to-physical communications but virtual-to-virtual communications as well. This technology has eliminated the critical 'blind spots' we were experiencing on our network.

In addition, the visibility Xangati has provided into communications within the VMware ESX host has helped his team diagnose issues with slowness on several occasions, Garcia said. And, with Xangati's recording feature, the IT team was able to monitor Microsoft Data Transformation Services packages run nightly from host to host, then play them back in the morning to analyze. We were experiencing unknown failures and Xangati's recording feature helped us to pinpoint the problem -- without having to stay all night, I might add.