Blue Medora Streamlines Network Performance for F5 BIG-IP with vRealize Operations
New solution provides enhanced visibility and troubleshooting capabilities
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Medora, an innovator in enterprise cloud systems management, today announced the release of their VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for F5's BIG-IP® product family. F5 products provide the application intelligence and services that help network managers ensure applications are fast, secure and available. Blue Medora's Management Pack for F5 BIG-IP extends VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) monitoring platform by enabling customers to gain comprehensive insights into the performance, capacity and health of their BIG-IP workloads running on VMware.
The Blue Medora F5 BIG-IP Management Pack provides performance monitoring, capacity planning and operational visibility for F5 BIG-IP systems and Local Traffic Manager™ load balancing configuration and performance. It automatically collects performance data from critical BIG-IP resources and makes it available in vRealize Operations. Administrators can now monitor and troubleshoot their entire BIG-IP environment within one unified interface, leading to accelerated data delivery.
"Blue Medora provides seamless VMware vRealize-based monitoring and focused visibility into compelling BIG-IP components, including application delivery and network traffic services," said Calvin Rowland, SVP of Business Development, F5 Networks. "This gives shared customers the opportunity to access performance, health and availability metrics to better integrate security, management and orchestration capabilities into our hybrid networking architectures."
With F5 and VMware vRealize Operations working in concert, organizations are able to see into all layers of their application delivery networking and virtualization infrastructure. By giving joint customers vital insight into the performance of network devices, application traffic and other infrastructure variables, the Blue Medora vROps Management Pack for F5 BIG-IP enables vAdmins to have complete visibility into their VMware and F5 landscapes.
"F5's systems seamlessly scale services for cloud, data center, telecommunications and software-defined networking in a unified manner. Blue Medora's Management Pack for F5 BIG-IP make it possible for vAdmins to handle time-consuming tasks in a more cost-effective and simplified manner," Nathan Owen, CEO, Blue Medora. "Historically, vRealize Operations admins haven't had as clear visibility into the health of their F5 environments, even though they are an increasingly critical component of an enterprise traffic management system. Blue Medora's new solution allows administrators to conveniently analyze performance data for trending and forecasting, and enabling them to better plan and budget for IT initiatives."
Key features of the Blue Medora vROps Management Pack for BIG-IP include:
- Aggregated monitoring of BIG-IP to provide one-stop viewing of health and performance from dashboards, views, and alerts across the entire F5 BIG-IP environment.
- Managed relationships to the VMware virtual layer, which provide visibility into load balanced applications and host health and performance. Allowing for faster identification of root cause issues.
- Visibility into F5 iApps® application service monitoring to provide calculated client and server side network performance.
- Smart alerting for cluster failover, certificate expiration, and BIG-IP LTM component health and other potential concerns.
- BIG-IP system planning through vRealize Operations Manager capacity definitions and projects around core metrics (CPU, Memory, Disk).
For more information on using the Management Pack, please visit our product page or see the VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for F5 BIG-IP User Guide, which can be found at: http://support.bluemedora.com. Learn more about Blue Medora by visiting our website, and on Blue Medora's Twitter and LinkedIn handles.
About Blue Medora
Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Blue Medora is the world's leading provider of value-added software solutions that extend VMware's vRealize Operations family of cloud systems management products. Blue Medora believes true visibility into business critical applications is only achieved when enterprise cloud management systems communicate without barriers.
Blue Medora's rapidly growing portfolio of VMware-focused software solutions extend VMware's cloud management platform, vRealize Operations, by seamlessly integrating health, availability, performance and capacity management as well as predictive analytics for NetApp, Cisco, Oracle, IBM and SAP environments. For more information go to bluemedora.com.
F5, BIG-IP, Local Traffic Manager, and iApps are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. The use of the words "partner," "partnership," or "joint" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between F5 Networks and any other company.
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