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Veeam Offers Free Version Of Monitor 3.0

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Veeam Software, a provider of systems management tools for VMware ESX Server environments, today announced general availability of a new free tool: Veeam Monitor Free Edition. This lightweight version of Veeam Monitor is designed to provide comprehensive real-time monitoring in ESX and ESXi environments, including VMware’s free version of ESXi.

Veeam Monitor Free Edition is built from the ground up specifically for the virtual world, and uses an agentless approach (VMware API) to monitor system health and performance on both VMware ESX and ESXi. Customers can view real-time resource usage data for any virtual infrastructure object or collection of objects, as well as known infrastructure events, all on a single screen.  This unified view of the virtual infrastructure improves administrator productivity vs. fragmented views of isolated hosts and guests.

Key features of Veeam Monitor Free Edition include:

  • Consolidated view with drill-down in VMs – find out at a glance which components of the VMware infrastructure are the largest resource consumers, drill down to an individual VM to see how much CPU and memory it is consuming, and even connect to the VMware Virtual Machine Console – all right from the Veeam Monitor user interface.
  • Correlation of event and performance data – known virtual infrastructure events, such as VMotion, snapshot creation and deletion, or backup activities, are shown directly on the performance graphs.
  • Advanced alerting and flexible alarms – set up to ten e-mail notifications or SNMP traps for important events such as a given number of running VMs is exceeded, VM heartbeat is lost, or a specific event is generated by VirtualCenter.
  • Scalable architecture – client/server architecture supports multi-admin access to performance data without affecting ESX server or VirtualCenter performance.
  • Ease of deployment – takes just minutes to install, configure and begin using.

Release: Veeam Reporter Enterprise 3.0 Edition

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Veeam Software today announced general availability of its Veeam Reporter Enterprise Edition. The new offering is an advanced version of Veeam Reporter, the product for automated discovery and documentation of VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Veeam Reporter Enterprise is the first solution specifically designed for reporting and change control in large VI3 virtual environments.

Veeam Reporter Enterprise provides unattended data collection and scheduled or ad hoc reporting, as well as centralized Microsoft SQL Server data storage to help systems administrators discover, document and report on all the objects within their VMware virtual infrastructure. Its client/server architecture supports use by many administrators, who can each see their area of interest.

Like the original Veeam Reporter, Reporter Enterprise collects information about the VI3 environment, its components and configuration settings. From this collection, Reporter provides comprehensive Microsoft Visio, Excel, Word or Adobe PDF reports for analysis, change control, documentation and decision-making support.

Veeam Reporter Enterprise is available immediately, with North American pricing beginning at $375 USD per socket.

Veeam Goes After European Market With VMware Management Tools

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Veeam Software today announced its entry into the European market. The company has launched a dedicated sales organisation, headquartered in its new UK-based EMEA headquarters office, for customers seeking to improve the manageability of virtual IT infrastructures based on VMware‘s market leading virtualisation software. The European executive team will be led by Managing Director Colin Wright and comprise a number of executives who have joined Veeam Software from senior positions at VMware. In addition, Veeam is launching two new products, Veeam Monitor Version 3.0 and version 4 of its nworks enterprise management connectors.

A recent study by IDC found that eighty-two percent of European companies are using VMware. The study also found that across Europe, disaster recovery, backup and availability have been the main growth areas for virtualisation over the past year. In order to more effectively address these specific challenges, Veeam Software is establishing a sales organisation that mirrors VMware’s presence in Europe. From today, European VMware users will be able to access the entire Veeam Software portfolio, which includes Veeam Backup, Veeam Reporter, Veeam Configurator and Veeam Monitor. They will also be able to use the company’s nworks enterprise management connectors that enable organisations to manage VMware environments with systems management tools from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft.

Founded in 2006, Veeam Software’s fifty strong development team quickly created a range of systems management tools for VMware ESX Server environments. Veeam actively sought customer feedback to its early versions, and is now beginning the rollout of its 3.0 releases, offering advanced capabilities and the innovative features customers want most. The company will launch into Europe with two brand new updates.

Veeam Monitor Version 3.0, an easy-to-deploy VMware monitoring solution, provides VMware administrators with performance monitoring, capacity planning and trend analysis, as well as troubleshooting and problem resolution. In addition, Veeam will launch Version 4.0 of its nworks enterprise management connectors, composed of new updates for the nworks Management Pack (MP) for VMware for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager; and the nworks Smart Plug-in (SPI) for VMware for HP Software Operations Manager. Both products offer major new capabilities including hardware and sensor status.

Veeam Releases Backup 2.0 for VMware Infrastructure

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Veeam Software today announced general availability of Veeam Backup 2.0, a product offering both backup and replication for virtual environments. Version 2.0 includes added functionality, as well as a new optimized backup engine that allows for up to five times faster backup and replication performance than the 1.0 version.

Major new features in Veeam Backup 2.0 include:

  • Five times faster — Veeam Backup 2.0 has a new optimized backup
    engine, which allows for up to five times faster backup and replication
    performance than the previous version.
  • Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support — Veeam Backup 2.0
    leverages VSS to ensure consistent backup and recovery of VSS-aware
    applications, including Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft
    SQL Server.
  • ESXi support — Now customers can back up ESXi servers using VMware
    Consolidated Backup (VCB). File-level recovery is fully supported for
    guests running on ESXi, and full image restore is supported to ESX 3.x
    servers. These images can then be VMotioned to ESXi as needed.
  • Enhanced reporting and notification — Comprehensive real-time job
    statistics are available, including automated e-mail notification of backup
    job status, activity and performance details.
  • Backup portability — Veeam Backup users can now easily import backups
    made using previous versions of the software, or backups that have been
    archived to tape.
  • Support for third-party tape backup systems — Now users can specify a
    script to automatically run when the VMware backup is finished, initiating
    tape backups to begin.

Veeam Backup 2.0 is available immediately, and pricing still begins at $499 USD per socket.

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[Source: MarketWire]

Veeam Launches ProPartner Program For Resellers And Consultants

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Veeam Software, provider of systems management tools for VMware ESX Server environments, yesterday introduced a new program designed to support and enhance the virtualization practices of its value-added resellers, systems integrators and consultants. Dubbed Veeam ProPartner, the program includes a members-only online portal with access to NFR license keys, discounts on Veeam software for resale, lead qualification support, direct access to Veeam engineering and support resources, co-marketing support programs, and a partners-only knowledge base that should grow over time.

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“Virtualization represents great opportunity for those who know the technology and can help IT organizations plan, implement, manage and exploit its promise,” said Rick Hoffman, Veeam vice president of channels and alliances. “By joining the Veeam ProPartner program, they can make the most of every virtualization engagement for themselves and for their clients. More than 30,000 IT professionals already know us for our innovative, award-winning products, so Veeam makes a natural add-on to every VMware project.”

According to the company, benefits of Veeam ProPartner include:

  • Increased margins on every VMware engagement
  • Market-ready offerings to build a virtualization practice. For example, partners can use Veeam Reporter to do regular health checks.
  • Deal registration
  • NFR keys to put Veeam’s software in partners’ labs
  • Expedited support and access to engineering
  • Access to educational resources, including a partner-only knowledgebase
  • Joint marketing programs and opportunities
  • A direct link to Veeam’s world-class development team for ongoing dialogue

[Source: VMBlog]

Video: Card Trick & Demo from Maxim Ivanov, Marketing Manager with Veeam Software (VMworld Europe 2008)

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The interview below is part of our Virtualization Video Series, a recurring theme we want to implement on Virtualization.com featuring interviews with key players from the industry, event reports, etc.

This interview was recorded at VMWorld Europe 2008 in Cannes, France, and features Maxim Ivanov, Marketing Manager with Veeam Software.

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