Audience and Features

Audience

This manual is part of the Splunk App for VMware documentation set. As an IT administrator use this manual to understand the dashboards and views in the app and to get visibility into your data.

As a user you:

• Have a good understanding of Splunk Enterprise.
• Know your environment and you know your data.
• Can get value from the views and dashboards in the Splunk App for VMware.

Features

The following main features are provided in this release:

• Proactive monitoring of your virtual infrastructure.
• A visual interactive topology map of your virtual environment, highlighting problems and statistical comparisons based on predefined customizable thresholds.
• Views that provide insight into how you environment performs with details on performance, availability, security, and capacity and change tracking.
• New Capacity Planning and Capacity Forecasting dashboards.
• Correlation of VMware virtualization data with NetApp NFS datastores.
• Views that show the operational health of your environment, identifying underperforming or distressed hosts, virtual machines, and datastores.
• A security view that provides visibility into potential security breaches and non-compliant usage patterns.
• The collection of granular performance metrics and log data all in one place, directly collected from VMware vCenter Servers and ESXi and vCenter logs (collected via syslog).
• The ability to explore very large data volumes, at speed, with access to fast queries on performance data.
• Track changes with visibility into VMware vCenter Server tasks and events in the context of your virtual environment.