nGenius® Virtual Agent
Extending the nGeniusŪ Service Assurance Solution into virtualized environments with a unified view of network and application performance across the modern IP network
Increasingly companies are turning to server virtualization to speed application delivery, reduce application failure, decrease server hardware and maintenance costs, and lower facility costs. However, virtualized environments have one significant problem – they mask visibility into the metrics necessary for optimizing service delivery, troubleshooting service degradations, or effective planning for new resources.
Visibility inside virtualized servers is critical for understanding how a virtualized application is being delivered, in a cohesive, unified view of both the virtual and physical environment.
The nGenius Virtual Agent is a software-based intelligent data source that extends the reach of the nGenius Service Assurance Solution to application performance and behavior inside virtual computing environments. Bringing visibility to traffic inside virtualized servers, the nGenius Virtual Agent extends the NetScout intelligent data source family and complements existing nGenius hardware instrumentation strategies. The nGenius Virtual Agent:
- Extends core NetScout technology, proven in the world’s largest networks, applying nGenius probe technology to virtualized environments
- Provides packet-flow monitoring of traffic inside virtualized servers in a common format that allows unified views of services across virtual and physical infrastructure
- Enables key performance indicator (KPI) monitoring within virtualized servers
- Complements virtualized application data from the physical network provided by nGenius InfiniStream appliances with data from inside and between virtual machines
- Delivers on-demand packet capture in order to give IT managers a way to gather and analyze live packets within the virtual environment
- Leverages a simplified, single-package installation of operating system and nGenius Probe software optimized for the virtual environment to provide an efficient and cost-effective means of gaining visibility into the virtual environment
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