Business-centric monitoring

Veeam Monitor leverages Veeam Business View™ to enable performance monitoring, alerting and reporting for virtual machine groups based on criteria such as business unit, department, location, purpose, service level agreement and other. This ability to perform business-centric monitoring helps to identify the business impact of a virtual infrastructure’s performance and respond accordingly. It also allows you to create flexible alerts based on known server type characteristics and the potential business impact of an outage for more granular service-level management. You can also create targeted reports showing only the data relevant to specific business units, departments or types of server.

Virtual infrastructure performance analysis

Veeam Monitor shows comprehensive resource consumption and workload data for hosts, clusters and datastores, with visibility all the way down to the individual VM and the applications running inside it. Find out at a glance which components of your virtual infrastructure are the largest resource consumers and which ESX(i) hosts are least loaded. View actual cumulative I/O load on a particular datastore to determine whether it is overloaded or can handle more VMs. Drill down into Windows and Linux VMs, ESX(i) hosts and vCenter servers to monitor resource usage for specific applications. These capabilities speed up analysis and troubleshooting, and help you determine potential resource bottlenecks for both virtual server and VDI workloads.

Storage monitoring

Veeam Monitor provides full storage monitoring capabilities, including disk space, disk issues and datastore monitoring. The latter allows for viewing datastore load information aggregated from disk utilization statistics of all VMs and hosts using the specific datastore. This allows you to see the actual cumulative load on a particular datastore and set thresholds and alarms on datastore load. Datastore I/O monitoring is a unique Veeam Monitor feature not available from other VMware monitoring applications.

Hardware monitoring

To provide the most complete picture of your virtual infrastructure, Veeam Monitor provides you with host hardware sensor information. This allows the VMware monitoring team to track physical hardware status (including ventilation, enclosure, power and other subsystems status) directly in Veeam Monitor. This eliminates the need for service console-based hardware monitoring agents, which are not supported on ESXi hosts.

Advanced alerting and flexible alarms

Veeam Monitor provides comprehensive alerting with custom alarms that can be based on many sources. You can easily set up e-mail notifications or SNMP traps for important situations such as exceeding a given number of running VMs, host hardware status changes or specific events generated by vCenter. Being alerted on such events allows for faster administrator response to critical issues, helping you maintain better health and uptime of your virtual infrastructure.

Correlation of event and performance data

Veeam Monitor helps you understand how virtual infrastructure activities affect VM performance, and solve resource usage mysteries by displaying virtual infrastructure events such as vMotion, snapshot creation and deletion, and backup activities directly on performance graphs.

Consolidated monitoring

Veeam Monitor is an enterprise-level application that enables multi-admin access to performance data without affecting ESX(i) host or vCenter performance and without requiring changes to your access policies. Veeam Monitor gathers all performance information into a SQL Server database, allowing users to access infrastructure-wide performance data and reporting as needed.

Veeam Monitor is integrated with VMware vCenter to provide cluster-aware monitoring of your virtual machines. Veeam Monitor supports and extends VMware’s management framework, offloading the monitoring burden from vCenter for enhanced VC performance. And with support for multiple vCenters and multiple standalone hosts, Veeam Monitor shows performance data from your entire virtual infrastructure on a single screen no matter how dispersed your VMware deployment is.

Upgrade to full version

Veeam Monitor Free Edition can easily be upgraded to the full version of Monitor to gain these additional capabilities:

• Performance history (beyond the most recent 24 hours)
• Unlimited alarms (Free Edition is limited to 10 alarms)
• Alarm modeling, which helps ensure that you have correctly set alarm thresholds by testing new alarms against historical data
• Automatic report generation
• Datastore disk I/O by VM
• Drilldown into a VM, ESX(i) host or vCenter server to monitor and manage Windows and Linux processes

The upgrade to the full version of Veeam Monitor is easy: simply install a new license file. You immediately get access to Monitor’s full functionality, including historical data collected while Free Edition was running. Contact Veeam to request a free 30-day trial license for the full version of Monitor.