Hyperic 4.4 version will be available soon in the market

VMware's SpringSource division is all set to launch a new version of its Hyperic monitoring and system management technology. The Hyperic 4.4 version provides improvements to VMware virtualized environments users by enabling more granular monitoring control. The enhanced VMware integrations are present in the enterprise version of Hyperic 4.4 with some of them available for open source Hyperic users.

Al Sargent, the senior product marketing manager at VMware's SpringSource division, said that, "Hyperic is one of the pioneers of open source system management.” He also added that, "Hyperic has had an open core model since 2006, and we are sticking to that model." Sargent also noted that the functions in Hyperic Enterprise form the superset of those in Hyperic Open Source.

For the users using the open source version, there is a new VMware vSphere plug-in for managing the virtual machines running on vSphere hosts. For enterprise users of Hyperic 4.4, the integrations of VMware are much broader. Sargent said that unlike the open source version, Hyperic Enterprise deals with scaling systems management to numerous servers.

Hyperic 4.4 Enterprise has an enhanced integration with VMware's vCenter that provides a wide visibility of the performance of servers and virtualized applications. Sargent revealed that Hyperic 4.4 server connects with VMware vCenter for pulling information about vSphere hosts, each having multiple virtual machines that run on it.
"When a Hyperic 4.4 server performs this connection to vCenter, it can be running within a VM on ESXi/ESX, or it can be running physically (not within a VM)," said Sargent. "This is an example of how Hyperic supports both physical infrastructure and virtual infrastructure, and facilitates the transition to cloud computing." He also added that, "Hyperic excels at measuring the delta between native/physical performance of an application and when it is when running on VMware." And, "Hyperic can measure any of 50,000 performance metrics on over 75 application platforms, so it provides incredible visibility into performance variances introduced by virtualization."