SolarWinds Certified Professional – Network Performance Monitor — Question 1

You use NPM to monitor a set of physical servers. The server team decides to virtualize these servers using VMware. Which part of your virtual infrastructure will NPM no longer be able to monitor?

Answer options

• A. Virtualization host hardware health
• B. VM sprawl monitoring
• C. Virtualization host and VM performance metrics
• D. Virtualization environment tree

Correct answer: A

Explanation

NPM is designed to monitor physical server hardware health, but once these servers are virtualized, NPM will not have access to the underlying hardware details of the virtualization host. Other options like VM sprawl monitoring, performance metrics, and the virtualization environment tree can still be monitored as they pertain to the virtual machines and their management.