VMware is one of the leading virtualization software vendors today. ManageEngine Applications Manager provides comprehensive performance metrics to monitor your VMware ESX/ESXi servers and their guest virtual machines, and helps you ensure they are performing well at all times.

Applications Manager connects with VMware ESX/ESXi servers through standard APIs and determines the health status as well as the performance of host servers and their corresponding virtual machines. It provides a single console to monitor both physical and virtual components of your IT infrastructure.

With the aid of end-user monitoring, administrators can gain valuable insight into the user experience, both before and after a virtualization project. With out-of-the-box reports, graphical views, alarms, thresholds and comprehensive fault management capabilities, administrators can maximize ESX server uptime and ensure that your VMware environment runs at peak performance.

Some of the metrics provided by Applications Manager include:

	CPU Utilization
	Know which resource is consuming more CPU. Find out if CPUs are running at full capacity or are they being underutilized. Know the combined CPU usage on the ESX server, the amount of CPU consumed by virtual machines, as well as the CPU utilization of the cores.
	Memory Utilization
	Avoid the problem of your ESX/ESXi servers running out of memory. Get notified when the memory usage is high or memory becomes dangerously low. Metrics shown include consumed memory, active memory, overhead memory, shared memory, granted memory, reserved memory, etc.
	Disk Usage
	Identify the storage devices with high activity and the amount of free space available in each of the disk partitions. Maintain a margin of available disk space. Get notified when the disk space falls below the critical threshold margins. Get notified when the disk space falls below the critical threshold margins.
	Network Utilization
	Monitor the health and status of the network interface. The performance can be monitored through the following attributes - Data Receive Rate, Data Transfer Rate, Packets received / trasmitted, health of interface, etc. etc.
	Top ESX/ESXi Servers
	Get an overview of the servers that are consuming your resources and take necessary action. Metrics provided include Top CPU consumers, Top Memory Consumers, Top Disk I/O consumers and Top Network consumers.
	In-depth Performance Reports
	Get insightful reports into the overall performance of ESX/ESXi servers. Know how your servers are performing over a period of time and analyze possible trends.