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The VMware administrators holiday gift from Veeam has been revealed. As promised, I received an email this morning announcing that a new free version of Veeam Monitor 3.02 is available for download. A description of the tool can be found on the products web page:

“Veeam Monitor is an easy to deploy, framework-independent VMware monitoring solution that was created expressly to help you better manage the health and performance of your VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) environment. Veeam Monitor provides support for troubleshooting and issue resolution, as well as trend reporting and capacity planning – equipping you to proactively manage ESX / ESXi infrastructure system health and performance today and over the long term.”

The product’s Release Notes reveal the limitations of the free version:

Veeam Monitor 3.0.2 features a new free functionality mode which is automatically enabled if you install the product without a license, or if your your license expires. Veeam Monitor Free Edition has the following limitations compared to the full version:

• Performance history lookup is limited to 24 hours
• Number of alarms is limited to ten
• Performance and trend reporting is disabled
• Alarm modeling is disabled
• Guest OS process management functionality is disabled.

Veeam Monitor requires a SQL 2005 database or installs SQL 2005 Express by default. It is my understanding

that allthough the Free Edition has the already mentioned limitations, all data required is collected and available for analysis once a license is purchased and the full version is activated.

Of course, I can’t resist the opportunity to say “I told you so!” A few tweets from this morning sum it up best:

“@VMDoug @veeam So how many registrations for the Veeam gift did you guys end up with? BTW, I feel like I should say “Elementary, Watson””

rbrambley (rbrambley)
22 December 2008, 7:15 am

“@rbrambley Not sure on the total number of registrations, looks like enough to bring our downloads to a crawl…youre blog was top referer.”

VMDoug (Doug Hazelman)
22 December 2008, 7:20 am

“@rbrambley And yes, you did figure it out on Friday, congrats on following the clues Sherlock ”

VMDoug (Doug Hazelman)
22 December 2008, 7:22 am

Thanks to all VM /ETC readers who made Veeam’s viral marketing campaign a huge success! Fee free to leave feedback here about your experience with Veeam Monitor. There’s a good chance Doug Hazelman will be monitoring the comments and probably be able to help answer any questions about the product.

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