Recently Dennis Zimmer, which most of you probably know of Icomasoft or from the books he authored, emailed me about a new tool his company was developing. I watched the video that is hosted on opvizor.com and must admit that it looks promising. Especially as most solutions today are reactive or semi-pro-active and opvizor is aiming to be pro-active.
opvizor identifies in advance when the virtualized IT infrastructure is lo osing on performance or might crash. Issues in VMware environments can be analyzed and corrected before they become dangerous. In addition, opvizor provides optimized logfiles and makes it possible to share the infrastructure data with internal and external partners, thus allowing more efficient problem solving. “Our goal is, that opvizor anticipates 60 percent of issues from system behavior.”
Now the tool just entered the Beta stage and opvizor is looking for people willing to give it a testdrive and willing to provide feedback! Funnily enough the tool kind of reminds me of a great tool we use internally to take vm-support files apart and analyze them. I can assure you that with the right amount of work / commitment this can turn into a really powerful tool to monitor / healthcheck your environment on a regular basis.
Dustin Pike says
I started playing with this yesterday and uploading some logs. During my second upload, I started it, stepped away and when I returned it seemed like the upload had finished, yet I couldn’t find my logs. Chalking it up to a beta product, I went on to working on some other stuff and then left for the day.
Flash forward to this morning and I open my email only to find a message for Icomasoft, stating they noticed I had a problem uploading a log, and they fixed it. Not only did they fix it, they reprocessed my upload so my data is now there for me with no action from me required. And this all happened without me logging any case or asking for any help.
I hope this kind of service continues, and that the product turns out to be as good as the service.
Alex says
The UI is definitely good.
One thing that’s a hassle is exporting/importing log files every time. If there was some sort of sync between vCenter and opvizor, it’d help usability.