VMware vFabric Application Performance Manager

DATA S H E E T
VMware vFabric Application
Performance Manager
Comprehensive Performance Management for Applications
Deployed on Virtual or Cloud Infrastructure
AT A G L A N C E
From the leader in virtualization and cloud
infrastructure, VMware vFabric™ Application
Performance Manager™ defines the new standard for
monitoring and management tools for owners of
applications deployed on virtualized or cloud
infrastructure. Working seamlessly with your VMware
powered cloud and automatically incorporating
applications deployed with VMware vFabric
Application Director™, Application Performance
Manager is easy to set up, works across any cloud,
and simplifies the identification and remediation of
performance problems down to the code level.
K e y B E N E F I TS
•A “single pane of glass” console streamlines
management of dynamic cloud applications.
•The software is simple to set up, use and extend
across any application and any cloud in minutes.
•Application Performance Manager speeds rootcause identification by triangulating problems
across servers, transaction paths and code changes.
•Policy-based alerting and remediation ensure that
problems are fixed quickly.
•Native integration with VMware infrastructure,
including vFabric Application Director, provides
comprehensive information and powerful automation.
What Is VMware vFabric Application
Performance Manager?
Application Performance Manager is a new breed of application
monitoring and management solution that delivers on the
promise of managing applications independently of the
underlying infrastructure. While IT organizations use VMware
vCenter™ tools to manage the infrastructure-utilization aspects
of performance, Application Performance Manager focuses on
the application itself. This enables application owners to look at
transaction performance and determine how infrastructure
resources and code changes affect overall application health.
Simple to set up, use and extend, Application Performance
Manager is driven by VMware vFabric AppInsight™, which
provides a next-generation application-operations dashboard.
With AppInsight, application owners can view true performance
by monitoring transaction paths from a user perspective.
Integrated within the AppInsight dashboard, additional details—
such as correlated metrics on resource performance from
VMware vFabric Hyperic® and byte-code instrumentation—
make it easy to identify root causes and take action at the code
level to fix problems quickly.
How Is vFabric Application Performance
Manager Used?
Application Performance Manager is an enabling technology
that empowers DevOps to manage cloud-based applications
without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. Untangled
from day-to-day application operations, IT is able to focus on
building out a private cloud that is cost-competitive with public
clouds, provides end-user services that keep applications
in-house, and can support a larger server-to-administrator ratio.
DevOps teams, presented with readily available infrastructure
and armed with sophisticated application management tools,
have full control of application life cycles, including developing,
running and managing their applications.
Designed to simplify and streamline many of the tasks required to
keep applications under management, Application Performance
Manager is embedded in the VMware vCloud® infrastructure. It
automatically models transactions across all application tiers
and discovers application resources. With real-time visibility
into transaction performance and details on resource and code
performance, it gives application owners and IT a common
perspective that enables them to work together to identify and
solve potential performance problems early.
In the new cloud operating model, DevOps builds, deploys and manages applications
independently of the underlying infrastructure and the CloudOps teams supporting it.
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VMware vFabric Application
Performance Manager
Application owners choose Application Performance Manager
because it
• Is simple to use – Extensive automation and an intuitive user
interface simplify application performance management at
any scale.
• Streamlines application support processes – With common
perspective and granular detail, application build, release and
monitoring teams can collaborate and maintain application
performance more effectively.
• Supports any application on any cloud – The ability to
track live changes across any application on any cloud gives
application owners the insight they need to manage complex
applications across private, public or hybrid clouds.
• Closed-loop application lifecycle – Because the product
is integrated with vFabric Application Director, teams can
immediately incorporate applications into management
policies during application provisioning to further automate
the build-run-manage application lifecycle.
• Native support for VMware cloud infrastructure – Integration
with VMware vSphere® and supporting products such as
VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite™ and vCenter
Orchestrator™ enables organizations to extend workflows and
remediation—such as rollback and capacity expansion—to the
virtual infrastructure for end-to-end cloud management.
Key Features
Support for Any Application, Any Cloud
Designed specifically for the cloud, with specialized support for
scaling up and down, Application Performance Manager makes
organizations confident they can manage application health and
cost no matter where their applications live.
Simplicity
Intelligent automation and an easy-to-use interface dramatically
streamline the management of applications running in the cloud.
• Cloud-aware – Designed for virtualized and hybrid
environments, application monitoring keeps track of starting,
stopping and moving virtual machines seamlessly.
• Easy setup and management – Autodiscovery provides a
continuously updated inventory of all application resources and
transaction paths in order to keep pace with the fast-changing
topology of modern cloud-based applications.
• Code- and cloud-agnostic – A model-driven architecture
eliminates dependencies on application languages or target
clouds, opening up the possibilities for how and where to best
run your applications.
• Intelligent user interface – Powerful visualizations of overall
application health—with detailed graphical and tabular
views of health trends, throughput and errors—help identify
performance slowdowns quickly before they cause outages.
• Extensible framework – An open, standards-based
framework helps application teams place new or emerging
software and infrastructure resources under management
quickly, with little effort.
• Baseline performance trends – Intelligent metric data
analysis automatically determines normal behavior for
performance metrics, such as transaction times, throughput
and latency. This creates a baseline of performance and an
overall health score that can be used for alerting policies if
performance begins to degrade.
Embedded Performance Management
Application Performance Manager is integrated as an end-user
service, providing application teams with a comprehensive,
real-time, application-centric view of their application
performance. Teams obtain detailed insight into the health and
efficiency of application components deployed across hybrid
cloud environments.
Find Out More
For information or to purchase VMware products, call 1-8774VMWARE (outside North America, dial +1-650-427-5000),
visit http://www.vmware.com/products or search online for an
authorized reseller. For detailed product specifications and
system requirements, refer to the VMware vFabric Application
Performance Manager documentation.
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• Application focused – Application teams can finally manage
application performance as the business sees it, starting with
application transaction performance and layering in visual
correlations of infrastructure resource and code performance.
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