There are a number of existing approaches to infrastructure monitoring that each provide benefits and challenges for effective management of highly virtualized environments.

These approaches can be effectively summarized in four main categories:

1. Legacy Frameworks
2. Point Solutions
3. Vendor Stacks
4. Unified Monitoring

Source: This e-book is an excerpt from The Definitive Guide to Monitoring Virtual Environments. The guide explains the pervasiveness of virtualized environments in modern data centers, the demand these environments create for more robust monitoring and analytics solutions, and the keys to getting the most out of virtualization deployments. Download Guide...