Veeam Software, innovative
provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions
for Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware, today announced the immediate
availability of Veeam Management Pack (MP) v6 for VMware, which gives
large to mid-sized IT organizations that use Microsoft System Center
additional powerful forecasting and planning capabilities to better
manage VMware environments.
Veeam MP extends System Center with deep VMware monitoring,
management and capacity planning and provides a unified view from a
single console of both physical and virtual infrastructures and
applications. Specifically, Veeam MP extends Microsoft System Center to:
- Gain deep visibility into the VMware infrastructure, including
virtual machines, VMware vSphere and the resources on which they run;
- Plan effectively for future capacity needs;
- Solve problems faster to meet service level requirements; and
- Achieve continuous improvement in datacenter efficiency.
This new release of Veeam MP includes new capacity planning reports
for VMware on host failure modeling, performance forecasts for
datastores, performance forecasts for vSphere clusters, and VM capacity
prediction. These reports bring potential capacity issues to IT’s
attention long before they cause problems. They also include powerful,
what-if modeling to help IT see how specific changes to their virtual
infrastructure will affect performance.
With Veeam MP v6, IT can easily answer questions like, “What would
happen to performance if this host failed?” and “How many days do I have
before this VM runs out of storage?”
Veeam MP v6 also includes:
- New Topology Views for Storage, Network and Compute: In
the storage and network topologies, Veeam MP maps VMs to the storage
and software-defined network components they are using, respectively. In
the compute topology, IT can view hosts, their physical hardware, the
logical hypervisor components and the VMs they are running.
- 30 New System Center 2012 Dashboards: These take
advantage of the new System Center 2012 Operations Manager dashboard
widgets to show real-time views of critical vSphere systems. Dashboards
include, “Top 10 hosts for CPU per cluster” and “Top 10 VMs for I/O per
datastore.”
- New vSphere Analysis Reports: Veeam MP’s easy-to-use reports on common issues within the vSphere infrastructure now include:
- Datastore
Space and Performance Usage Heatmaps: Color codes show VM space usage
and growth per datastore in one report, and VM IOPS and latency per
datastore in another;
- VM uptime: Tracks VM availability to ensure it meets service level objectives;
- Top Troublemakers: Lists the noisiest, alert-generating vSphere objects in the environment;
- Oversized and Undersized VMs: Provides guidance to right-size VM resources for a more efficient datacenter; and
- Zombie VMs: Identifies idle and powered-off VMs that are wasting resources.
- Unique Performance Analysis and Correlation Monitors:
These new monitor types provide dynamic correlated data right in the
alert description. Unlike other VMware monitoring solutions, these
monitors accept multiple performance metric inputs and gather correlated
data from other vSphere objects to help solve problems faster. For
example, a host CPU usage alert could provide information about the Top
five VMs that are causing high CPU on a given host.
Veeam MP v6 supports Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1, and VMware vSphere 5.1.
Veeam MP v6 is Windows Server 2012 certified.
Veeam is the 2012 Microsoft Management and Virtualization Partner of the Year.
Veeam MP was selected as the
VirtualizationAdmin.com Readers' Choice Award Winner for Monitoring Management & Performance
Quotes:
Brian Hillger, Director, Server and Tools Marketing, Microsoft
“In line with Microsoft’s commitment to interoperability, Veeam MP
extends the power of Microsoft System Center to give enterprise IT deep
visibility into vSphere environments. System Center provides a single
console from which IT can manage both physical and virtual
infrastructures, even in heterogeneous environments. With its focus on
extending System Center, Veeam is the 2012 Microsoft Management and
Virtualization Partner of the Year for good reason.”
Derek Hennessy, Senior Consultant, BEarena
“Veeam MP provides us with a complete view of our environment in a
single pane of glass. The new features within Veeam MP v6 allow us to
find the root cause of issues even faster than before, which reduces our
time to resolution. The new Capacity Planning feature allows our
operators to be more pro-active and efficient at problem resolution. The
visibility of both the physical and virtual components in once place
gives us a holistic overview of our environment. Without doubt the Veeam
MP is the best monitoring tool for VMware virtual environments on the
market and has helped us to grow our business to new heights. Once again
Veeam is ahead of the curve!”
Jason Buffington, Sr. Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group
“Veeam has long been known as an early innovator in solving
VMware-specific backup challenges, and has since brought that know-how
to Hyper-V customers. Now Veeam is bringing that insight to VMware
monitoring scenarios. There is a huge base of Windows servers that are
managed by Microsoft System Center, but are virtualized on top of VMware
hypervisors. System Center provides a breadth of monitoring and
management capabilities for Windows environments, but it needs better
visibility into vSphere instrumentation to truly fully realize
Microsoft’s private cloud management vision. Veeam MP v6 looks to fill
that gap, which should delight System Center administrators and
partners.
Ratmir Timashev, President and CEO, Veeam Software
“Virtualization is now the dominant environment within the modern
data center, so managing it effectively has become absolutely vital to
the health of the enterprise. With the Veeam MP v6, organizations can
take control of their virtual VMware environment using a management
framework they already know very well: Microsoft System Center.”
Free Offer for New Veeam MP Customers
Ten free sockets and one full year of maintenance are available for
free exclusively to new Veeam MP users worldwide who have or plan to
deploy Microsoft System Center. The license is perpetual and contains
full functionality. For more information, visit http://www.veeam.com/freemp.
Availability
Veeam Management Pack v6 is available now.