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Xangati tackles virtual system blind spots

Virtualization technologies offer IT departments the opportunity to maximize resources and consolidate hardware, but virtual systems often hide much of the data network managers need to track performance and troubleshoot problems. Network management start-up Xangati this week released a suite of virtual appliances designed to apply Xangati’s traffic monitoring expertise to virtual systems communications, making it possible to better manage application performance in the virtual realm.

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One of the challenges that virtualization poses to traditional management approaches is visibility. Communications between hypervisors is not easily tracked in the same way as network traffic can be monitored, captured and reviewed for troubleshooting purposes. Xangati executives say its new products, Xangati for ESX and the Xangati Management Dashboard, will help IT managers capture virtual machine communications as well as traffic between virtual and physical machines. The vendor can capture such data and provide it to be played back for troubleshooting purposes, according to David Messina, vice president of marketing for Xangati.
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