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Veeam Announces Beta of Monitor Version 3.0

Veeam has announced that Veeam Monitor version 3.0 is now available in beta.  Its innovative new features increase the product's trend analysis and troubleshooting capabilities – equipping you to proactively manage the performance and availability of your VMware infrastructure.

New features in Veeam Monitor 3.0 include:

  • Enterprise scalability and support for multiple VirtualCenters. Is your environment getting too large to be handled by a single VirtualCenter? Veeam Monitor can help. New performance optimization and a special monitoring mode allow for enterprise scalability and provide the ability to gather monitoring information from large VI deployments with multiple VirtualCenters – all from a single console.
  • Multiple new alarm sources. The following new alarm sources are available in Veeam Monitor version 3.0 for even more comprehensive monitoring and alerting:
      • VirtualCenter events (matched by substring). One example of an alarm built using this event source could be an alarm generated when a specific VM is moved to another ESX host using VMotion.
      • VM heartbeat. Use this event source to generate an alarm when a heartbeat is missing for a VM for more than X number of seconds.
      • VM state (running/suspended/powered off). You can leverage this event source to receive an alert when any mission-critical VM is powered off or suspended.
      • Total number of VMs with a given state on a specified VI object. This event source lets you create an alert that would trigger when the number of simultaneously running VMs on a particular resource pool, host or data center is too high, or unusually low.
  • Alarm modeling. No more being flooded with alerts, and no more waiting for weeks to find out that your alarm settings don't work as intended. With Veeam Monitor 3.0, you can model and test your alarms instantly. Simply use the new Alarm Modeling feature to test your alarm settings against your event history from VirtualCenter for an immediate evaluation. The new Alarm Modeling feature allows you to easily establish better benchmarks and thresholds. Based on the modeling results, you can fine-tune the alarms in case it appears that you will receive too many false positive alarms, or missing something important.
  • Capacity planning and trend analysis. Veeam Monitor's new Trend Reporting feature allows you to discover trends and do proactive capacity planning. Project how your virtual environment will grow over time; find out how resource usage is changing for a specified host, resource pool or datacenter; and plan upgrades or migrations based on what you learn.
  • Correlation of VI events and performance data. Ever wondered about an unexpected resource consumption spike? Solve resource usage mysteries with new real-time monitoring graphs displaying known virtual infrastructure events, such as snapshot creation and deletion, or backup activities, directly on the performance graph.
  • Suppression of unwanted alarms. Tired of being slammed with alarms during backup activities? You can now instruct Veeam Monitor to suppress alerts raised during known VI activities, such as backup or snapshot operations.
  • Drill-down into VM. Want to research possible rogue VM activity? Veeam Monitor 3.0 provides you with the ability to drill down to an individual VM and find out what processes are running there, and how much CPU and memory they are consuming.
  • Connect to a VM directly from Veeam Monitor. Need to troubleshoot a VM that is not behaving as expected according to performance metrics? For your convenience, the Monitor 3.0 user interface features a new "Console" tab, which lets you connect to the VM console right from the Monitor interface.
  • Leverage VC history. No more waiting for monitoring data to be gathered before you can start working on it. When you connect to VirtualCenter for the first time, Veeam Monitor 3.0 fetches all historical performance and event data from it, giving you the ability to browse and analyze historical data immediately.

You can now download the Beta of Veeam Monitor 3.0.

Published Monday, August 04, 2008 7:39 PM by David Marshall
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