4sysops - FREE: SolarWinds VM Monitor - Get X-Ray insight into your ESX Servers

Submitted by Josh Stephens - Blog: Thwack

SolarWinds free VM Monitor is an ingenious desktop tool that continuously monitors a VMware ESX Server and its virtual machines, delivering the real-time monitoring of ESX Servers that you’ve been missing. With VM Monitor at your fingertips, you’ll be able to track virtual server health at-a-glance and ensure your mission-critical apps never fail you… after all, VM Monitor ensures you are visually alerted in real time to any issues in your virtual reality.

SolarWinds free VM Monitor makes it easy to:

Quickly check the health of your VMware ESX Server by monitoring CPU, memory utilization, number of virtual machines configured and running, and much more
View detailed virtual machine health statistics including VM name, guest OS, and VM state, as well as processor, memory, and network usage
Leverage best practice thresholds to begin monitoring virtualized servers right out-of-the-box
Prevent performance degradation by watching threshold-specific indicators to visually alert you when problems occur