Veeam Software, innovative provider of
VMware data
protection,
disaster recovery and
VMware management
solutions for virtual datacenter environments, today announced a new version of
the
Veeam nworks Management Pack (MP) for VMware, which company
representatives are demonstrating in booth #42 at VMworld Europe 2011 through
Oct. 20.
The nworks MP provides scalable, fault-tolerant and agentless VMware
infrastructure monitoring and management directly in Microsoft System Center,
with integration available for both Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). This gives organizations a comprehensive view
of their IT infrastructures and enables them to manage applications, physical
systems and both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere virtual environments from
System Center. Version 5.7 of the nworks MP includes:
- Support for VMware vSphere 5.0: The nworks MP now monitors more than
160 metrics and 500 events to help administrators manage even the most complex
vSphere environments. This includes new metrics and events introduced in vSphere
5.0 and a new derived metric unique to Veeam. DiskPressure analyzes storage
configuration and warns of over allocation, enabling administrators to avoid
production slowdowns and outages. Version 5.7 also offers hardware monitoring
data gathered directly from ESX(i) hosts for improved visibility and reduced
overhead on vCenter Servers.
- New reporting: The nworks MP leverages the Microsoft System Center
Operations Manager’s data warehouse to provide more than 25 new and rewritten
out-of-the-box reports, including a new report on oversized virtual machines
(VMs) that helps administrators manage CPU and memory allocations. The nworks MP
also offers more than 20 new views and dashboards for host storage, host
networking, datastore provisioning, hardware and more.
- Enhanced support for the largest VMware environments: vSphere clusters
of any size can now be monitored at the most granular level; enhanced targeting
of vCenter events and messages improves workflows in the network operations
center; and low-impact discovery and streamlined topology reduce the impact on
System Center infrastructure.
“The nworks MP leverages and protects the investments our customers have made
in Microsoft System Center,” said Ratmir Timashev, President and CEO of Veeam.
“These new enhancements extend monitoring and management capabilities for
mission-critical virtual environments, which is particularly important as they
grow and expand.”
“Veeam combines deep VMware expertise and tight integration with System
Center,” said Garth Fort, General Manager, Management and Security Division,
Microsoft. “The company continues to make excellent use of the advanced
capabilities in System Center to provide customers with VMware monitoring,
analysis and notification.”
Veeam works in close collaboration with Microsoft and recently became a
managed partner, a status attained by only one percent of Microsoft partners. In
addition, Veeam is a Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalist (2010), a member of
the System Center Alliance and a member of the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC)
Alliance.
Availability
A beta version of the nworks MP v5.7
is available now; general availability is expected within 60 days. More
information is available at http://go.veeam.com/veeam-nworks-v5.7.html.