XorMon 2.0: New Features and Expanded Infrastructure Monitoring
XorMon 2.0 marks a major step in unified infrastructure monitoring, bringing AI-assisted operations, smarter alerting, configuration guidance and wider support for enterprise platforms.
Infrastructure teams often work across separate consoles for compute, virtualization, storage, backup and networking. This fragmentation makes it harder to correlate performance problems and understand the health of an entire environment. XorMon 2.0 is a significant release from XORUX that expands the platform’s monitoring coverage and adds tools intended to make day-to-day operations more efficient.
What Is XorMon?
XorMon is an infrastructure performance monitoring and capacity-planning platform from XORUX. It is designed to provide visibility into servers, virtualization platforms, storage systems, SAN and LAN infrastructure, backup environments and related enterprise technologies. Rather than treating every infrastructure component as an isolated monitoring target, the platform aims to bring operational information together in a common interface.
The 2.0 release extends the list of supported devices and adds capabilities for alerting, reporting, access management and resource analysis. The official release notes also describe XorMon as the modern replacement for the vendor’s original XorMon, LPAR2RRD and STOR2RRD tools.
Top New Features in XorMon 2.0
AI Agent
The new AI agent adds an assistant-style way to interact with monitoring information. It is intended to make infrastructure data easier to explore and understand. Consult product documentation for exact integrations, permissions and supported query scope in your deployment.
Anomaly Detection-Based Alerting
XorMon 2.0 adds anomaly-detection-based alerting. This complements conventional threshold monitoring by helping surface behaviour that deviates from expected patterns. Teams should validate alert behaviour and tune notification policies for their workloads.
Single Sign-On
Single sign-on support is included in the 2.0 release. Product coverage describes integrations such as Okta and Keycloak. This can simplify authentication in environments that already use a central identity provider.
Favorites
Favorites provide a faster route to frequently used monitoring objects or views. Administrators can reduce repetitive navigation when they regularly check the same systems.
Improved Menu Grouping
Menu grouping organizes technologies into clearer sections, including IBM Power Systems, Linux, Windows, server service processors, LAN and SAN (Cisco only). This helps users navigate larger monitoring inventories.
Resource Configuration Advisor
The Resource Configuration Advisor is listed for IBM Power Systems, VMware, Proxmox and Nutanix. It provides configuration-oriented guidance to help administrators review resource allocation and infrastructure setup.
Historical Reports
A new lightweight reporting feature makes historical information easier to review. It is intended to provide a fast way to work with reports over collected monitoring data.
IBM Power CPU Workload Estimator
For IBM Power Systems, XorMon 2.0 adds a CPU Workload Estimator to support workload and capacity-planning activities.
Expanded Support for Enterprise Platforms
One of the most concrete parts of the 2.0 release is its expanded device and technology coverage. This matters for organizations that operate mixed-vendor infrastructure and want to bring more systems into a common monitoring environment.
| Category | Newly listed support | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | Qumulo, Scality RING, Hitachi HNAS, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), IBM FlashSystem 900/840 | Extends monitoring across scale-out NAS, object storage, enterprise NAS, hyperconverged storage and IBM FlashSystem platforms. |
| Server service processors | Dell iDRAC, Lenovo XClarity | Adds management-controller visibility for supported server hardware. |
| Tape libraries | IBM TS4500 and TS4300, Quantum Scalar, Dell EMC ML3, HPE ESL G3, Fujitsu Storage Scalar | Broadens monitoring coverage for enterprise tape infrastructure. |
| Mainframe | IBM Z Mainframe and IBM LinuxONE in DPM mode | Extends the platform’s monitoring scope to these IBM environments. |
| SAN networking | Broadcom (Brocade) SAN switches through REST API | Provides an API-based integration path for supported Brocade SAN monitoring. |
VMware, vSAN and Brocade Enhancements
vSAN Monitoring
XorMon 2.0 lists VMware vSAN monitoring among its major feature enhancements. This is relevant to organizations using VMware software-defined storage, where understanding storage health and performance is an important part of maintaining virtual infrastructure. Check the platform’s current technology matrix for the exact vSAN versions, metrics and prerequisites supported by your release.
Resource Configuration Advisor for VMware
The Resource Configuration Advisor is also listed as supporting VMware, alongside IBM Power Systems, Proxmox and Nutanix. This gives administrators another way to review configuration and resource considerations from within the monitoring platform. Treat recommendations as decision support: validate them against application requirements, performance history and vendor sizing guidance before making production changes.
Brocade Fabric and Zone Configuration
For Broadcom (Brocade) SAN switches, the 2.0 release adds fabric and zone configuration capabilities through the REST API. This provides additional visibility into SAN configuration information alongside the platform’s broader infrastructure monitoring functions.
What XorMon 2.0 Means for IT Operations
Support for additional storage systems, service processors, tape libraries and mainframe environments can help teams monitor more of a mixed infrastructure estate from one platform.
Anomaly-detection-based alerting adds another way to identify unusual behaviour. Teams should establish baselines and review alert quality to avoid unnecessary noise.
SSO support can align XorMon access with an organization’s identity-management approach and reduce the need for separate credentials.
The Resource Configuration Advisor and IBM Power CPU Workload Estimator add tools for reviewing infrastructure configuration and workload planning.
Favorites, clearer menu grouping and Historical Reports can reduce the effort required to reach frequently used information and review historical performance.
How to Get Started with XorMon 2.0
If you are evaluating XorMon for a lab or production environment, use a controlled rollout rather than connecting every device at once.
Check the current installation documentation, supported operating systems, sizing guidance and technology-specific requirements before deployment.
Add a small selection of systems, such as a VMware environment, one storage platform and a network device. Confirm that the collected metrics meet your operational needs.
If you plan to use SSO, coordinate the integration with your identity team and test user access before making it the standard login path.
Test anomaly-based alerting, review notification destinations and confirm that historical reports contain the information your operations team needs.
After validating the pilot, onboard additional storage arrays, service processors, tape libraries and SAN infrastructure according to business priority.
For downloads, installation instructions and the latest compatibility details, use the official XorMon website and its XorMon 2.0 release notes.
Final Thoughts
XorMon 2.0 is more than a version-number change. The rebranding is accompanied by a meaningful expansion in supported enterprise technologies and a set of operational improvements covering AI assistance, anomaly-based alerting, SSO, favorites, reporting and resource configuration guidance.
For infrastructure teams managing VMware, IBM Power Systems, multi-vendor storage, SAN fabrics and tape environments, the expanded coverage is particularly relevant. The best way to assess the release is to test it against the devices and operational workflows that matter in your own environment, while checking the official compatibility matrix for precise support details.