VMware has just released Appspeed 1.2. AppSpeed inspects traffic flowing over the vSwitch, discovers and maps the environment, monitors performance against SLAs and enables root cause analysis. Does sound like a tool you could use in your virtualized environment doesn’t it?
New Features:
VMware vCenter AppSpeed provides proactive performance management and service-level reporting for applications running within virtual appliances. By analyzing the traffic that flows between end-users, Web applications, and back-end servers, AppSpeed provides visibility into multitier applications and enables rapid identification of performance issues originating from inadequate resource allocation and application problems.
- Enhanced AppSpeed scalability AppSpeed scalability has been enhanced, enabling a single AppSpeed Server to monitor significantly larger environments (more servers, applications and transactions). You can now specifically exclude servers that do not need to be monitored.
- Central management for multiple AppSpeed Servers You can now install more than one AppSpeed Server and control the environment of each AppSpeed Server from a single user interface. This enables additional scalability for monitoring large environments, while delivering centralized visibility of application performance and service levels.
- Enhanced mapping capabilities Improvements have been made in the mapping algorithms, enabling smarter, more accurate application grouping and transaction analysis.
- Topology editing from the user interface You can now merge, split or delete applications, providing greater control over how your monitoring data is presented. All of the operations are accessible from the AppSpeed user interface.
- Enhanced security using a vCenter-based authentication model Connection to AppSpeed Servers is now authenticated against vCenter. A new AppSpeed privilege has been introduced and AppSpeed access is now only granted to AppSpeed-privileged users.
- New latency-focused Analysis views Two new latency-focused analysis views have been introduced in the AppSpeed user interface, enabling more detailed visibility for latency analysis and troubleshooting:
- A view that compares a single application or transaction latency between servers
- A view that compares transaction or server latency with their latency baselines, pointing to latency anomalies