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VeeamManagementPackforVMware

Deep extension of SystemCenter to VMware monitoring management and capacity planning

Product function introduction

Recently, due to the needs of the project, I have studied the VeeamManagementPackforVMware6.0 product with my colleagues, which aims to extend in-depth VMware monitoring, management, and capacity planning to MicrosoftSystemCenter. Personally, I like this product very much (a heavyweight product that helps MicrosoftSystemCenter supervise VMware). Let's introduce it to netizens as follows:

As the number of customers adopting VMware technology continues to increase, enterprises with MicrosoftSystemCenter are looking for more effective ways to monitor and manage their VMware and physical infrastructure. Many customers find themselves using a variety of monitoring tools to discover inefficiencies and blind spots in the data center, which requires teams to manually compare performance information to solve the problem. VeeamManagementPackforVMware (MP) extends in-depth VMware monitoring, management, and capacity planning to MicrosoftSystemCenter so that you can provide a unified view of physical and virtual infrastructure and applications from a single console (SystemCenter) so that you can find and solve problems quickly!

Gain deeper VMware visibility

With VeeamMP, you can take full advantage of your existing investment in MicrosoftSystemCenter to monitor more than 850 events and 200 metrics that come with you. There is no better way to gain VMware visibility in MicrosoftSystemCenter than in this case! MicrosoftSystemCenter shows what is going to happen with your application and operating system. And when you add VeeamMP, you will also be able to monitor virtual machines (VM), VMwarevSphere, and all hardware, storage devices, and the network resources (including relationships and dependencies) on which they are running. MicrosoftSystemCenter is used with VeeamMP to provide truly superior visibility.

Control capacity planning

You can integrate VeeamMP's new capacity planning report into MicrosoftSystemCenter so that you can easily develop and plan your infrastructure requirements. Quickly identify overused resources to avoid accidents, and use "what-if" modeling to manage the growth of virtual infrastructure.

The capacity planning report shows you the number of days left for CPU, memory, and storage devices in a graphical form. With VeeamMP, you can plan the number of virtual machines that can be added based on current resource utilization and know how much storage space is really left. VeeamMP can provide the right tools for your work.

Meet and exceed your service level agreement

With the growing availability requirements for round-the-clock applications, Veeam understands that you need to resolve problems quickly! VeeamMP provides a detailed, unified view that enables you to identify relationships and dependencies between physical hosts, virtual machines, critical applications, and services, so that you can immediately see where the problem occurs.

With the right information, you can solve the problem yourself and escalate it to the appropriate level. Using the built-in VMware knowledge base and related metrics alerts, you will be able to quickly identify the root cause of the problem, saving time in solving the problem rather than blaming each other.

Improve data center efficiency

With VeeamMP, you can expand your existing investment in MicrosoftSystemCenter to optimize existing data center processes and save costs. You can now manage virtual and physical environments from one console and avoid the costs and inefficiencies caused by additional monitoring frameworks.

VeeamMP also reduces management and deployment costs through agentless monitoring and saves more time and cost by reducing manual troubleshooting steps. In addition, you can leverage VeeamMP's new oversized / undersized virtual machine reports to optimize critical IT resources.

Mature solution

In conjunction with MicrosoftSystemCenter, VeeamManagementPack has been validated in more than 1000 successful deployments worldwide. It is a scalable, reliable, and mature solution that extends deep VMware monitoring, management, and capacity planning to MicrosoftSystemCenter.

Characteristics and advantages

Learn more about hundreds of built-in rules and monitors, topology diagrams, and reports

Monitor relationships and dependencies between physical hosts, virtual machines, applications, and services

Manage and plan to develop new capacity planning reports

Use the built-in comprehensive VMware knowledge base to solve problems faster

Use vSphere analysis reports for virtual machines of the right size to improve data center efficiency and find free virtual machines or junk files

Supported Microsoft platform

SystemCenter2012SP1OperationsManager

SystemCenter2007R2OperationsManager

WindowsServer2012

Supported VMware platform

VCenterServer4.x and 5.x

VirtualCenterServer2.5

ESXi3.5, 4.x and 5.x

ESX3.x, 3.5x and 4.x

Here are the new features in the VeeamManagementPackforVMware6.0 version

With VeeamManagementPack (MP) v6.0 and MicrosoftSystemCenter, you can take full advantage of new capacity planning reports, storage heat maps, and real-time analytics to permanently control virtualization management challenges.

Version 6.0 includes new and enhanced features in the following areas:

New capacity planning report

Eliminate uncertainties in VMware capacity planning and identify capacity issues before they really cause problems. With VeeamMP, you can study trends, predict, identify overused resources, and perform modeling to help optimize resources and manage the evolution of virtual infrastructure.

VeeamMP provides four capacity planning reports that can be directly integrated into MicrosoftSystemCenter: 1) host failure modeling, 2) performance prediction of data storage devices, 3) performance prediction of vSphere clusters, and 4) virtual machine capacity prediction. For example, you can easily see what happened to the CPU and memory available in the event of a host failure (see figure 1).

New models for storage devices and networks

The new topology view in v6.0 maps not only vSphere computing resources, but also distributed storage devices and network structures.

Storage device topology: virtual machines (VM) can be mapped to the storage devices on which they are running. You can delve into real-time dashboards, as well as key metrics that monitor latency, configuration, and usage (see figure 2).

Network topology: virtual machines can be mapped to software-defined network components. The network topology allows you to view the usage of each switch and analyze the packets. VeeamMPv6.0 fully supports distributed virtual switches, including CiscoNexus1000V.

Computing topology: allows you to view the host, its physical hardware, logical hypervisor components, and the virtual machines they are running.

New SystemCenter2012 dashboard

VeeamMPv6.0 has more than 30 new dashboard views that can take advantage of the new SystemCenter2012OperationsManager dashboards and widgets, allowing you to view the performance of critical vSphere systems in real time. You can view the on-demand dashboards in your environment, such as "Top Ten hosts for CPU" for each cluster and "Top Ten Virtual machines for disk input / output" for each data storage device (see figure 3).

Other vSphere analysis reports

VeeamMPv6.0 provides easy-to-use reports of immediate value that contain information about common problems in any virtual infrastructure. You will find that graphical views facilitate quick interpretation, and reports that drill down links can provide in-depth analysis to quickly resolve the problem. The new reports include:

Data storage device space usage heat map: shows the virtual machine space usage and increased color-coded heat map for each data storage device (see figure 4)

Data storage device performance usage heat map: shows the virtual machine IOPS of each data storage device and a color-coded heat map of latency

Virtual machine elapsed time: the availability of virtual machines can be tracked to ensure that service level targets are met

VMotion: analyze virtual machine migration and find virtual machines that are not working properly

Biggest troublemaker: lists vSphere objects and VeeamMP monitors that may generate the loudest noise and alarms in the environment

Too large and too small virtual machines: provides guidance for virtual machines of the right size and runs more efficient virtual data centers

Zombie virtual machines: find idle virtual machines that waste resources and shut down virtual machines that take up valuable storage space

New and unique performance analysis and correlation monitoring

These new monitoring types provide the corresponding dynamic relevant data in the alert description. Unlike other VMware monitoring solutions, these monitoring types can accept multiple performance metrics inputs and collect relevant data from other vSphere objects to help resolve problems more quickly. For example, host CPU usage alerts can provide information about the first five virtual machines that caused high CPU usage on specified hosts (see figure 5).

Please note that VeeamMPv6.0 has more than 25 new types of monitoring that provide key vSphere metrics, such as memory swapping, CPU preparation time, storage latency, configuration, and snapshot usage

New platforms supported

VMwarevSphere5.1

MicrosoftWindowsServer2012

MicrosoftSystemCenter2012SP1

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