WildPackets
OmniVirtual

A Small Service That Shows the Big Picture
 

WildPackets' OmniVirtual enables business to:

• Gain unprecedented visibility into networks and applications

• Accelerate find-to-fix times

• Discover and close network security gaps

• Increase end user productivity

• Increase ROI on existing networks and applications

• Increase IT efficiency and responsiveness

• Reduce costs associated with network downtime and service degradation

• Reduce IT labor costs

The migration to blade chassis-based virtual servers has created a new blind spot in the enterprise: the traffic between virtual servers in the same blade chassis.  This "invisible traffic" never crosses any network segment where it can be easily captured.  As a result, engineers have little or no visibility into the traffic among virtual servers.

Invisible Traffic

"Invisible traffic" is a problem for nay data center team trying to troubleshoot, optimize, or secure it's virtual server operations.  You can't tune what you can't see.  And with enterprises virtualizing more and more of their data center operations, the size of the blind spot is destined only to grow.
A new addition to the OmniAnalysis Platform, OmniVirtual is a lightweight traffic-capture service that enables IT engineers to capture and analyze traffic on virtual servers.
OmniVirtual eliminates the blind spot created by invisible traffic.  It enables data center engineers to use the powerful analysis features and graphical charts of the OmniPeek analyzer to troubleshoot, optimize, benchmark, and secure virtual servers and virtual applications.

OmniVirtual is a small, lightweight service that runs on any Windows XP or Windows 2003 virtual server.  It consumes minimal RAM and CPU resources, so you can troubleshoot, optimize, and secure virtual applications without compromising server performance.
When other virtual management tools report problems, get to the root cause by capturing traffic with OmniVirtual.
Take advantage of the OmniPeek Enterprise network analyzer's full suite of post-capture analysis tools, including Peer Map, Expert event reporting, Apdex application performance measurements, and more

Supported Networks
OmniVirutal caputres Network traffic from the virtual network interface of the underlying VM system.

Supported Virtual Systems
OmniVirutal supports VMware and Virtual PC Systems.

Supported Operating Systems and Browser
Windows XP Professional (SP2) or Windows Server (SP1).

System Requirements
OmniVirutal can be run on VMware and Virtual PC systems with Windows XP (SP2) or Windows Server 2003 (SP1) and at least 256MB of system memory.

OmniEngine Manager
Included with both OmniPeek Analyzers and OmniEngines, the OmniEngine Manager allows users to manage multiple OmniEngine Enterprise, OmniEngine Workgroup, OmniEngine Desktop, OmniVirtual and Omni Wireless Sensors from a single console and configure any connected Remote Engine.
Using OmniEngine Manager, users can upgrade Remote Engine software, and distribute settings for filters, alarms, graphs, and capture templates for any group of network accessible Remote Engines.
Communication between the OmniEngine Manager and any OmniEngine requires a TCP/IP network connection between the two.  This, in turn, requires that each machine (the one on which the Remote Engine is running and the one on which the OmniEngine Manager is running), must have a network interface card (NIC) to use for network services.

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