Veeam Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware, announced the immediate availability of Veeam Management Pack (MP) v6 for Vmware. This gives mid- to large-sized IT organisations that use Microsoft System Center additional powerful forecasting and planning capabilities to better manage VMware environments.
Jason Buffington, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, says: “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 virtualised 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 realise Microsoft’s private cloud management vision.
“Veeam MP v6 looks to fill that gap, which should delight System Center administrators and partners.”
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 modelling 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?”
Brian Hillger, Director, Server and Tools Marketing at Microsoft added that 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.”
Ratmir Timashev, President and CEO, Veeam Software says: “Virtualisation is now the dominant environment within the modern data centre, so managing it effectively has become absolutely vital to the health of the enterprise. With the Veeam MP v6, organisations can take control of their virtual VMware environment using a management framework they already know very well: Microsoft System Center.”
Jason Buffington, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, says: “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 virtualised 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 realise Microsoft’s private cloud management vision.
“Veeam MP v6 looks to fill that gap, which should delight System Center administrators and partners.”
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 modelling 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?”
Brian Hillger, Director, Server and Tools Marketing at Microsoft added that 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.”
Ratmir Timashev, President and CEO, Veeam Software says: “Virtualisation is now the dominant environment within the modern data centre, so managing it effectively has become absolutely vital to the health of the enterprise. With the Veeam MP v6, organisations can take control of their virtual VMware environment using a management framework they already know very well: Microsoft System Center.”