As an integrated plug-in for WhatsUp Gold, Ipswitch WhatsVirtual provides the capability to discover, map, monitor, alert and report on both small virtual environments, hosted by a single VMware host, or entire data centers, managed by one or more VMware vCenter servers.
When you use a vCenter server to manage your virtual environment, it becomes the point of communication between WhatsVirtual and the virtual machines within that environment. WhatsVirtual communicates with the vCenter server to discover the virtual environment, poll the virtual machines, collect events associated with actions taken on virtual machines, and issue actions to individual virtual machines.