eG Innovations announced that its eG VM Monitor now supports CitrixXen Server and Sun Solaris Logical Domains (LDOMs).

The enhancements are part of v4.2 of the company’s eG Enterprise Suite, which already supports VMware ESX and ESX 3i servers as well as Solaris Containers. The new software release also strengthens management of VMware environments. eG Enterprise agents can now be integrated directly within VMware’s Virtual Center. This greatly simplifies configuration of the monitoring for VMware server farms. In addition, the eG VM Monitor software now monitors the VMware Virtual Desktop Manager for improved Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) performance. A new VM Search capability makes it easier to track virtual machines (VMs) as they move from one physical server to another. Performance metrics for the VM are also available.

“As an industry, we’re moving from the first phase of virtualization into what we call Virtualization 2.0, where production deployments are becoming more prevalent,” said Srinivas Ramanathan, founder, president and CEO of eG Innovations. “Phase one of virtualization primarily involved staging and development of the environments, and virtual infrastructures typically were over-provisioned to ensure acceptable performance.”

“But Virtualization 2.0 is all about manageability,” Ramanathan said. “The emphasis is shifting from over provisioning to right provisioning. Many of the core monitoring and management challenges we have faced in the physical infrastructure will be relevant in this phase. We’ve made eG Enterprise ‘Virtualization 2.0 Ready’ by supporting multiple technologies with a single view of the physical and virtual infrastructures so customers can track resource usage across VMs and quickly identify the true root cause of any performance issue.”

For more information on eG Innovations contact Bill Bradley, bill@bottomlinecomm.biz at Bottom Line Communications.