Veeam Software Official Blog » Veeam Monitor http://www.veeam.com/blog News, thoughts & updates about Veeam VMware management solutions, virtualization technologies. Discussions about VMware ESX / ESXi, Hyper-V, vSphere and VI Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:26:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Managing and Monitoring your Virtual Infrastructure http://www.veeam.com/blog/managing-and-monitoring-your-virtual-infrastructure-2.html http://www.veeam.com/blog/managing-and-monitoring-your-virtual-infrastructure-2.html#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:00:28 +0000 vmdoug http://www.veeam.com/blog/?p=849 More >]]> With the new vSphere 4.1 out, not only does a new VMware monitoring solution has to be fully compatible with vSphere 4.1, it should also make use of the new performance data that is available in the vSphere API.

Your VMware monitor should be able to use the new data to monitor NFS storage, storage paths and storage adapters, virtual disks, and power usage of ESX(i) hosts.

Veeam’s solution for VMware monitoring has been Veeam Monitor. Veeam Monitor is framework independent and simple to deploy. It provides multi-user access to detailed performance data and can be run in a virtual machine. It can also be integrated with the free Veeam Business View tool to provide business-oriented alerting and reporting. The new version of this industry-standard monitoring solution was just released in October of 2010. In addition to being fully compatible with vSphere 4.1 and taking advantage of the new performance data available in the vSphere API, the recent version has the following new features:

  • Built-in intelligence: Over 125 predefined alarms and a knowledge base that explains each alarm and provides possible causes, best practices, suggested resolutions and outside sources of additional information if needed.
  • A new summary dashboard is available for each object in the infrastructure tree, providing an at-a-glance view of the most useful information for any object. One of the things that our customers like about Veeam Monitor is the intuitive UI that allows for quick drilldown into specific performance issues and helps find the cause.

Logical disk space monitoring, snapshot monitoring, management reports, streamlined alarm management, scalability and architecture improvements, and UI enhancements have also been improved.

Veeam Monitor 5.0 was also featured as the Product to Watch in the October issue of eweek

Veeam Monitor 5.0

Thank you to all the beta testers who went out of their way to help us make Veeam Monitor 5.0 the best VMware monitoring solution:

]]> http://www.veeam.com/blog/managing-and-monitoring-your-virtual-infrastructure-2.html/feed 0 The Power of Veeam Business View and Monitor 4.5 http://www.veeam.com/blog/the-power-of-veeam-business-view-and-monitor-4-5.html http://www.veeam.com/blog/the-power-of-veeam-business-view-and-monitor-4-5.html#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:31:18 +0000 vmdoug http://veeammeup.com/?p=140 I'm very excited for the upcoming release of Veeam Monitor 4.5 with Veeam Business View integration. While we released Veeam Business View a few months ago, we are now getting our products aligned with how it works and how it enables you to start taking a "business view" of your virtual infrastructure rather that just an "infrastructure view". Monitor 4.5 will show the Business View tree from within it's interface, making it very easy to set alerts, create reports and in general just see how things are performing based on the business category or group. This includes even setting alerts by service level agreement (SLA) or by application. Virtual Machines are not limited to 1 dimension, they can be in multiple categories/groups. The video below (featuring the voice of yours truly) goes into more detail of what's coming up and shows the power of Veeam Business View along with Veeam Monitor 4.5.

On YouTube:

The best part in my opinion? Veeam Business View is free and Veeam Monitor has a free edition. You'll get all this capability without spending a penny! Of course there are some limitations on Veeam Monitor Free Edition, here's a summary:

  • real-time monitoring only (24 hours of history)
  • real-time reporting only (24 hours of history in report)
  • 10 alarms
  • no alarm modeling
  • no VM/ESX/VC drill-down (process monitoring/management)
  • no access to datastore load monitoring (other datastore graphs are available)

Veeam Monitor 4.5 should be available in early Q4, sign up here to be notified.

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