nworks


Today, version 5.6 of both the Veeam nworks Management Pack and Smart Plug-in are available. The nworks Management Pack (MP) for VMware allows Microsoft System Center Operations Manager installations to monitor and manage the VMware vSphere installation. The nworks Smart Plug-In (SPI) for VMware provides monitoring and management of the vSphere installation as well for HP Operations Manager environments.
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Last month, Alec King from Veeam and Microsoft MVP Pete Zerger of SystemCenterCentral.com presented a webinar about Veeam’s solution to monitor VMware environments within Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) via the nworks Management Pack for VMware. This webinar is a good example of how customers can leverage their Microsoft investments in System Center, yet provide a familiar monitoring platform to the VMware footprint within the organization.

The nworks Management Pack for VMware offers incredible visibility into the VMware vSphere environment by leveraging the VMware SOAP API. Not just is this smart, it is also cool. In the webinar, Alec and Pete explain how the management pack goes into the VMware vSphere environment to deliver very relevant information that infrastructure administrators can use to set very specific alerting and monitoring thresholds. Organizations that utilize Microsoft System Center Operations Manager will appreciate the seamless integration of this management pack for the VMware infrastructure. The webinar is available for on-demand replay here in Windows Media format.

If you want to download the slide deck, you can do so here.

Also during the webinar, 12 lucky attendees won a copy of the book System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007 R2 Unleashed. Congratulations Dean, Bruno, Jeremy, Ralph, Jonathan, Ravi, Mikael, Shaun, Michael, James, Brian and Douglas! So, it pays to attend Veeam webinars!


It’s always fun trying to pick themes for Tradeshows. With VMworld we can pretty much pick any theme since everyone there is part of our target audience. With Microsoft Tech·Ed the decision is a bit more difficult…how do we appeal just to select audience members that manage VMware?

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OK, maybe that wasn’t so difficult after all.

If you’re going to be in New Orleans June 7-10, please stop by the Veeam booth and learn all about how you can manage VMware with Microsoft System Center. We’re going to have a good size booth and plenty of engineers on hand to demo our Veeam nworks Management Pack 5.5, including our new PRO Pack for SCVMM that we announced back at the Microsoft Management Summit.

Besides product demos we’re also going to be giving away “Got VMware” t-shirts and we’ll also have raffle drawings during the show where we’re giving away a free copy of Train Signal’s System Center Operations Manager Training. We’d like to thank our friends at Train Signal for working with us on this raffle. The drawing times for the raffle are below, make sure you’re at the Veeam booth for your chance to win.

  • Monday 8 p.m.
  • Tuesday 4:30
  • Wednesday 4:30
  • Thursday 2:45

The Veeam Team looks forward to seeing everyone in New Orleans!


I’m really looking forward to my first MMS experience next week in Las Vegas. Veeam is a gold sponsor at MMS this year and with good reason, we have some exciting announcements to make. If you listen to my Chinwag with Mike Laverick, you’ll get an idea of what those announcements are (around 28 minutes in). I’m not going to write about those announcements yet, I’ll do a post after MMS and share my thoughts on what I learned as well as the reaction we get regarding our Microsoft System Center strategy moving forward.

The giveaways!

Of course people want to know what kind of swag they can expect from Veeam when they visit our booth #111. We will have our popular “blinky luggage tags” as well as some fine branded USB drives (loaded with Veeam goodness), but what about the “big giveaway”? I’m happy to announce that we’ll also be giving away copies of the latest and greatest book on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed by Kerrie Meyler, Cameron Fuller, John Joyner, Andy Dominey. We will have a limited number of copies available and as always it will be first-come-first-served so make sure to make you way to booth #111 quickly. We’re also happy to have the authors of the book on-hand in our booth to do book signings, the schedule is below. If you’d like to get an idea of the type of content in the book, check out a recent post on System Center Central where the authors talk about the Veeam nworks MP for VMware.

MMS Book Signing Schedule

The following times are when the authors of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed will be at Veeam Booth #111 for book signings:

Tuesday: 1:00 – 2:00 PM

Wednesday: 1:00 – 2:00 and 5:00 – 6:00 PM

Thursday: 1:30 – 2:30 PM

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