Velocity Software offers performance and capacity planning software, providing products, support and education to meet operational requirements of installations operating z/VM and Linux under z/VM. In 2020, we have added more for zVSE, a z/OS component, docker instrumentation, and support for MongoDB.
Our products are developed, maintained, and supported by experts in performance and capacity planning. Education is provided by the worlds leading experts. We keep the VM and Linux communities up-to-date with performance tuning techiques, training, and technical tips through our Performance Newsletter.
The Velocity Software products are all completely integrated, with each new component being developed as part of the suite. None of the products are "add-ons", with interfaces subject to failure. With Operations, Alerts, and Performance management all integrated, moving from one function to another is seemless. Installations have the ability to "click through" from one function to another as needed.
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| Product and Subscription Service Offerings | Current Release | |
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| zVPS™ | The complete performance package for LINUX, TCP/IP, and z/VM. zVPS contains the following components: zMON, zWRITE, zMAP, zTCP, zVWS and zVIEW. Optional NO CHARGE components include zALERT and zOPERATOR. | 5.1 |
| zMON™ | Our real-time monitor provides up-to-the-minute performance information, providing input to zMAP, MXG, and NewMICS for enterprise capacity planning requirements | 5.1.3.4 |
| zWRITE™ | Our real-time monitor data collection facility, reduces monitor data without losing information relevant to proper performance analysis. | 5.1.3.9 |
| zMAP™ | Our historical reporter provides management reporting and in-depth post-analysis and capacity planning facilities for z/VM and Linux on System z. | 5.1.3.9 |
| zTCP™ | Network performance data collection for distributed servers, Linux, networks and z/VM | 5.1.3.7 |
| zVWS™ | A very fast Web server for VM | 5.2.0.5 |
| zVIEW™ | Browser based performance data viewer. | 5.1.2.0 |
| zPRO™ | Velocity Software's Portal for cloud enablement for z/VM | 5.3.1.1 |
| zALERT™ | Optional NO CHARGE feature of zVPS: Alert functions for z/VM, Linux, networks, VSE, Oracle, Java | 5.1.1.0 |
| zOPERATOR™ | Optional NO CHARGE feature of zVPS: A full function operations console | 5.1.0.0 |
| zTUNE™ | Velocity Software's Performance Services — the best performance help available!. | 5.1.2.0 |
| zOSMON™ | Velocity Software's z/OS Performance Management feature, including z/OS SMF data into zVPS! | 1.1.3.0 |
| VSEMON™ | Velocity Software's VSE Performance Management No Charge feature, including CICS, BSI Stack data into zVPS! | 1.1.0.2 |
| Product Support |
The zVPS product suite is fully supported based on the support schedule below,
including all components along with zOSMON and VSEMON Version 1 add-ons. (See the component list above).
zPRO, zTUNE and zVWS are also supported based on the following schedule.
Note, we recommend upgrading to the latest releases to take full advantage of new functions, fixes and z/VM compatibility Support Schedule:
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Installation pre-requisites may be found on the prereqs page.
z/VM systems are complex environments. Without complete and correct performance data, mysterious problems can occur. zVPS collects full performance data on the following:
Velocity Software works closely with other vendors to enable installations to best utilize their system with a minimum of product conflict.
Support for Linux and other platforms is Agentless! Using data collected only via snmp, there are no proprietary or resource intensive agents required for data collection. Microsoft servers and Solaris servers measurements can be seen on the Velocity Software demo site.
To meet service level requirements, performance problems must be solved quickly.
zVPS provides:
zVPS provides the necessary capacity planning tools for z/VM and Linux on System z systems. Capacity planning requires the following capabilities to allow utilization of all resources to be tracked:
Velocity Software provides performance education worldwide for the z/VM platform.
Velocity Software is the recognized leader — both in product capabilities and in experience — in measurement facilities for consolidation of servers such as Windows or Sun to Linux running under z/VM.
