New release of Veeam Management Pack for System Center 2012

Veeam Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for Windows Server Hyper-V and VMware, today announced the immediate availability of Veeam Management Pack™ (MP) v6 for VMware, which gives large to mid-sized IT organizations that use Microsoft System Center additional powerful forecasting and planning capabilities to better manage VMware environments.

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:
o Gain deep visibility into the VMware infrastructure, including virtual machines, VMware vSphere and the resources on which they run;
o Plan effectively for future capacity needs;
o Solve problems faster to meet service level requirements; and
o 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 modeling 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?”

Veeam MP v6 also includes:
o New Topology Views for Storage, Network and Compute: In the storage and network topologies, Veeam MP maps VMs to the storage and software-defined network components they are using, respectively. In the compute topology, IT can view hosts, their physical hardware, the logical hypervisor components and the VMs they are running.
o 30 New System Center 2012 Dashboards: These take advantage of the new System Center 2012 Operations Manager dashboard widgets to show real-time views of critical vSphere systems. Dashboards include, “Top 10 hosts for CPU per cluster” and “Top 10 VMs for I/O per datastore.”
o New vSphere Analysis Reports: Veeam MP’s easy-to-use reports on common issues within the vSphere infrastructure now include:
§ Datastore Space and Performance Usage Heatmaps: Color codes show VM space usage and growth per datastore in one report, and VM IOPS and latency per datastore in another;
§ VM uptime: Tracks VM availability to ensure it meets service level objectives;
§ Top Troublemakers: Lists the noisiest, alert-generating vSphere objects in the environment;
§ Oversized and Undersized VMs: Provides guidance to right-size VM resources for a more efficient datacenter; and
§ Zombie VMs: Identifies idle and powered-off VMs that are wasting resources.
Unique Performance Analysis and Correlation Monitors: These new monitor types provide dynamic correlated data right in the alert description. Unlike other VMware monitoring solutions, these monitors accept multiple performance metric inputs and gather correlated data from other vSphere objects to help solve problems faster. For example, a host CPU usage alert could provide information about the Top five VMs that are causing high CPU on a given host.