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Nutanix Case Study: Zenoss

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

America

Country

United States

Product

Zenoss
Nutanix Prism
Nutanix ZenPack

Tech Stack

Python
Java JMX
MySQL

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Productivity Improvements
Digital Expertise
Customer Satisfaction

Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Applicable Industries

Software

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing
Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance
Process Control & Optimization
Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Data Science Services
System Integration

About The Customer

Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions. The company is based in California, USA. Nutanix is known for its innovative solutions that help businesses simplify their IT infrastructure and drive down costs. The company's solutions are used by businesses across various industries to manage their data, applications, and services in a unified and efficient manner. Nutanix's products are designed to provide businesses with the flexibility and scalability they need to meet their unique business needs and objectives. The company's solutions are built on a foundation of industry-leading technology and are backed by a team of experts who are committed to providing exceptional customer service and support.

The Challenge

Nutanix, a global leader in cloud software and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, was facing a challenge in unifying monitoring across infrastructure, applications, databases, directory services and more. They were seeking to improve their ability to ensure application performance by getting service-centric visibility. The company began to evaluate a number of monitoring solutions and found many of the options to be complicated, which was a “showstopper” for Nutanix. It was critically important that the monitoring platform they chose provide total visibility with low overhead, enhancing their team’s agility as new services get deployed. The monitoring requirements identified by Nutanix included incorporating performance metrics and fault events for F5 load balancers, checking web portal function with synthetic web transactions, notifying in advance of SSL certificate expirations, digging deep into Tomcat Java JMX applications by gathering thread counts, heap memory and open file descriptors, tracking MySQL database essentials like data and index sizes, open connections and tables, and join statistics, and supporting core Active Directory infrastructure by collecting number of connections and sessions, read/write activity, bind times, and cache hit rates.

The Solution

Nutanix chose Zenoss for its ability to provide business-critical insights into application stacks and internals, its user-friendly interface, and quick deployment. Zenoss extends the capabilities of the Nutanix Prism interface by collecting detailed data points on Nutanix clusters, hosts, CVMs, storage pools and so on. When coupled with service impact analysis, the Nutanix ZenPack maps out not only the Nutanix resources but also all associated mission-critical services they enable. This gives users the ability to see when and where issues are occurring, identify affected services that rely on Nutanix infrastructure, and quickly pinpoint and resolve issues hindering service delivery. Zenoss also maintains a rich history of these data points over time so system performance can be explored retrospectively. Its machine learning algorithm utilizes this historical data to identify anomalous behavior and help you head off future issues before they occur. Zenoss fills in the holes of Nutanix Prism by providing insight into all the different application stacks, internals of environment and so on.

Operational Impact