vCenter Infrastructure Navigator is a role-based application that helps planners, system administrators, and other IT professionals understand, plan, and manage VMware infrastructure. It can help you identify infrastructure bottlenecks, plan and implement new VMware solutions, and monitor the VMware environment.
The VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator is an application awareness plug-in that provides continuous dependency mapping of applications within a virtual environment. It allows administrators to view relationships between virtual machines and external machines through services, helping them understand the impact of changes on their infrastructure.
This manual covers essential concepts such as incoming and outgoing dependencies, active discovery processes, and remapping services. Users will learn how to log in to the Infrastructure Navigator portal, enable or disable the plug-in, and view application visibility at both the virtual machine level and the vCenter entity level.
This information is intended for virtual infrastructure administrators who are familiar with virtual machine technology and datacenter operations.
It provides continuous dependency mapping of applications within a virtual infrastructure.
The tool maps Web servers, mail servers, database servers, application servers, cache servers, messaging servers, and virtualization management servers.
A vCenter entity is any part of the Hosts and Clusters inventory pane except for a virtual machine.