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Veeam introduced the free Veeam Monitor 3.0 back in December as a Christmas gift for VI admins. Apparently, Veeam Monitor is the “gift that keeps on giving” now that the tool has been updated to version 4.0. The new version is vSphere ready and provides unique VMware storage monitoring, hardware monitoring, and reporting.

Check out the YouTube video featuring some of the brand new capabilities.

More information about Veeam Monitor 4.0 for VMware and instructions for downloading can be found at Veeam’s product page: New Veeam Monitor 4.0 for VMware- new standard for managing VMware environment

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, Read the rest of this entry »

I was lucky enough to attend a live demonstration of the new Hyper9 virtual infrastructure search and monitoring tool this week, and as a result a limited number of VM /ETC readers will be lucky enough to have access to the currently closed Hyper9 beta program in the near future. Stay tuned to VM /ETC for information on signing up for access to the exclusive beta program, but for now, this post provides a first look at some of the features demonstrated to me. I’ve also been given permission to provide some screen shots.

Hyper9 was announced publically back in September, and then caught the attention of many VMworld 2008 attendees. Scott Lowe, Edward Haletky, Eric Siebert, and Keith Ward are some of the many that have already written about their impressions of this tool’s capabilities. In general, Hyper9 is a search based management tool that promises to “rock your world” of virtual infrastructure management. Hyper9 can be used to query for information at the hardware, hypervisor, and VM operating system levels.

So, what exactly is Hyper9 and what’s so special about a tool that can search against all objects in your virtual infrastructure? Read the rest of this entry »

I first heard that the new VMware Administrator Portal (VCAP) for consolidated management of multiple VirtualCenter Servers (VC) would soon be released as a free product during VMworld 2008. True to their promise, VMware provided a technology preview version for download at the end of last week. I found out it was released when Yellow-bricks.com posted about it and then the VMTN Blog and Mike D posted about the Yellow-bricks.com update. So, I downloaded the virtual appliance and did some basic testing this weekend. Although I do not have multiple VCs or a lot of VMs to test with, the following is a summary of my notes and thoughts while setting it up. Read the rest of this entry »

Imagine what the Internet would be like without search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Live Search from MSN. Now imagine what managing your virtual infrastructure would be like with browser based searching abilities similar to the service these search engines provide. A couple of new virtualization management products that are currently in beta, Hyper9 and SearchMyVM, promise to do just that.

It’s exciting to think about the reporting and monitoring possibilities of a virtual infrastructure that is constantly indexed and quickly queried for information. Judging only by my speed reading, it sounds to me like many of the daily administrative tasks that are currently scripted or made possible via VirtualCenter plugins can be consolidated to a browser-like management solution and accomplished more efficiently.

The following is a link summary of various posts about the 2 products. As always, read the entire posts for more information. Read the rest of this entry »