BalancePoint Features

Key Features

• Cross-domain automated visualization – Quickly identify where problems occur (application, server or storage)
• Unique Akorri performance analytics and metrics – Cross-domain metrics for virtual machines, servers and storage
• Planning and analysis reporting tools  – PtoV migration performance,  chargeback, capacity planning
• Automated reporting – Flexible reporting engine produces 360° infrastructure management dashboards and scorecard reports
• Broad interoperability – Agentless data collection
• Virtual appliance with agent-less design – Rapid installation and time to value
• Plugs into VMware vCenter Server  – See and manage the entire virtual and physical infrastructure

View a short presentation About Cross-Domain.

Cross-Domain Automated Visualization

Visualize infrastructure health and alignment to quickly identify the root cause of poor performance

BalancePoint maps the relationships between applications and the infrastructure elements that support them. These topology views are generated automatically and visually identify points of contention and performance problems. BalancePoint maps virtualization layers identifying exactly how VM guests on VMware ESX Server are mapped to server and storage resources, and how each element is performing. Oracle and SQL databases are also shown. 

Unique Akorri Performance Analytics and Metrics

Cross-domain, data center level metrics for virtual machines, servers and storage

The key to BalancePoint’s ability to analyze interdependencies between resources in separate IT domains is Cross-Domain Analytics™ technology.  These unique analytics provide intelligent alerting, actionable recommendations and proactive service management tools to help with remediation, optimization, and planning. BalancePoint produces unique performance and capacity metrics that enable IT operations teams to better communicate, collaborate and manage service delivery as a team.Akorri BalancePoint helps companies make sure that data center server and storage virtual and physical systems deliver the best application performance possible.Planning and analysis reporting tools  – PtoV migration performance,  chargeback, capacity planning.

Automated Reporting

Flexible reporting engine produces infrastructure scorecards

An integrated, flexible reporting engine automatically generates reports saving you hours of spreadsheet work.    IT service dashboards and infrastructure scorecards can be sent to your email inbox every day.

Broad Interoperability

Agentless data collection 

BalancePoint's agentless desgin means no time consuming agents to deploy and manage. The product interoperates with all the major storage vendors including EMC, HP, NetApp, IBM, Dell EqualLogic, Hitachi Data Systems, and 3PAR. It also supports all the major operating systems including AIX, Linux, Solaris, Unix, VMware, and Windows.

Plugs Into VMware vCenter Server

See and manage the entire virtual and physical infrastructure

BalancePoint and VMware vSphere are complementary.  BalancePoint fully supports vSphere 4.0 as a virtualization platform, runs as a virtual appliance in a vSphere VM, and plugs into vCenter Server (formerly Virtual Center) to provide a seamless system management interface.  Support is planned for Microsoft Hyper-V and all other major hypervisor technologies.  

BalancePoint extends vCenter Server capabilities beyond simple hypervisor management. With our cross-domain topology view, deep reporting capabilities, and long-term (18 month) trending and analysis, administrators can visualize their existing infrastructure from application to storage, accurately plan future deployments and quickly identify IO problems and contention across all virtual and physical servers and storage.

View a recorded BalancePoint Demonstration