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My guess on what Veeam has “nworks” for VI Admins on Dec 22

PostDateIcon December 19th, 2008 | PostAuthorIcon Author: Rich Brambley
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what could it be?

The more readers handle the free VMware administrator mystery present from Veeam the more the wrapping paper is getting torn. All that present shaking and examining trying to guess what it could be has been bad for the intended surprise by the folks at Veeam, or has it? Honestly, I have no inside information, and I am just as stumped as the rest. I do have a guess I’ll share, however.

First, to see a full size image of the present with the latest rips in the wrapping go to boche.net’s post Further unwrapping of the free tool from Veeam.

As for my guess on what it could be – well, based on the fact that the latest paper rip reveals some monitoring information and that Veeam recently purchased nworks which is known for it’s system monitoring tools,


I’m going to guess a “lite” version of Veeam Monitor 3.0. In fact, this screenshot from the Veeam Monitor 3.0 web page looks pretty familiar doesn’t it?

Veeam also recently announced the release of nworks Connectors Version 4.0 recently:

“… announced general availability of version 4.0 of its nworks enterprise management connectors, the first major update since Veeam acquired nworks in June. Version 4.0 includes new features and updates for the nworks Smart Plug-in (SPI) for VMware for HP Software Operations Manager, and the nworks Management Pack (MP) for VMware for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. The new MP includes breakthrough functionality that enables end-to-end monitoring from ESX servers all the way through to enterprise applications running inside virtual machines.”

Here’s some more quick information copied from Veeam’s press release about the relationship between the Monitor and nworks Connectors tools:

“The nworks Management Pack (MP) and Smart Plug-in (SPI) for VMware are complementary to Veeam Monitor. Depending on their requirements, customers can use the nworks connectors, or Veeam Monitor, or both solutions to manage and monitor VMware performance. Customers currently on maintenance for the MP or the SPI can receive the new version at no additional charge.”

If you haven’t heard, to get your copy of the Veeam free tool you need to register here. Then on Monday December 22 you will get an email with instructions for obtaining your copy.

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  • Rich, are you one of those guys that can't be fooled during the holidays or birthdays? Can you pick it up, shake it, and then tell what's inside like Johnny Carson used to do? Haha.

    Nice sleuthing my friend. Let's see what happens on Dec 22 now.

    -David
  • Doug, Sven,

    I spent about 30 mins this morning looking at the Veeam web site and reading the recent press releases. I was actually surprised how the clues from the "wrapped image clues" matched the publicly viewable info already there. I'm sure anyone who took the time to look at little closer would have come to a similar conclusion

    Tom, Tony,

    As of this reply I have not watched the demo, nor have I used the tool yet myself. Thanks for the extra client / server application info. I was not aware of the application tiers.

    Wouldn't it be great if the Veeam just gave away the entire Monitor 3.0 tool since nworks Connector is a described as a complimentary tool?
  • Tony
    Well, original Veeam Monitor is client-server: I hope Veeam keeps the architecture in the free tool. We will know this soon enough!
  • tom
    Yes, my guess after reading veeam's site is that this will likely be the client-only version, not the full version, which is licensed on an annual basis, which makes it too expensive for many SMBs...so we have to download it, try it, and see what we don't get with the client-only version...

    Meanwhile, thank you for figuring it out!!

    My guess is you figured it out by watching the demo that Veeam offers, then compared what you saw on the demo with what is shown in the 'wrapping paper' image.

    Thank you, Tom
  • In the Netherlands we call this a: Peter R de Vriesje!
    Good work (had some spare time?)
  • Rich,

    Looks like a lot of detective work went into this...

    -doug
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