Zenoss Inc., a provider of dynamic service assurance products for public, private and hybrid clouds, has recently demonstrated dependency visualization, configuration tracking, network monitoring and fault management for public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures based on VMware vCloud Director at VMworld 2010. 

Officials with Zenoss claimed that the company is among the first to offer an independent network monitoring and service assurance solution built specifically for VMware vCloud Director. 

According to company officials, for enterprises and service providers deploying VMware vCloud Director, Zenoss can provide unified visibility and real-time awareness of their entire cloud infrastructure including physical, virtual and application resources and their interdependencies.

Company officials said that with these capabilities, Zenoss addresses key operational challenges facing organizations that are deploying private and public cloud infrastructures. 

Zenoss officials said that to deliver service assurance requirements for both private and public clouds built with VMware vCloud Director, the company has expanded the internal data structures of its Zenoss Enterprise offering to reflect VMware vCloud Director constructs and has integrated directly to the VMware vCloud API to gather real-time state and configuration information.

Zenoss Enterprise, company officials said, gives cloud providers a unified service assurance console that brings together the operational insights from across the physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure needed to effectively operate a private or public cloud at scale.

Through its reporting, alerting and action scripting, Zenoss Enterprise provides an end-to-end platform for operations management. 

The result is improved service delivery, faster time to resolution on operational issues, delegated administration, and access to the operational insight needed for capacity planning and management.

"VMware vCloud Director has been designed to enable integration with third-party products such as Zenoss Enterprise via the VMware vCloud API”, said Jian Zhen, director, cloud computing solutions, VMware, in a statement.

Zhen said that the company is pleased to see Zenoss join the VMware vCloud partner ecosystem and providing their solution that helps unify the view of IT across users' physical, virtual, and cloud environments -- simplifying the management of applications and cloud services based on VMware vCloud Director.

Matt Ferrari, director of platform engineering at Hosting.com (News - Alert) said that as a provider of cloud-based datacenter solutions and a strategic partner of VMware, the company is excited to see Zenoss be among the first to bring monitoring capabilities to VMware vCloud Director.

Ferrari said that the visibility, management and IT service assurance delivered through Zenoss allow Hosting.com to provide cloud clients searching for reliable, responsive, and secure cloud-based infrastructure solutions with the ability to more quickly see the performance, cost, and scale benefits of migrating their infrastructure to the cloud.