New features in Veeam V7 MP for SCOM 2012 R2

New features in Veeam V7 MP for SCOM 2012 R2

Support for Hyper-V:

With Veeam MP v7, you can monitor health and performance of both Microsoft Hyper-V

and VMware vSphere environments. Now Hyper-V administrators can get the same great

monitoring, alerting, advanced reporting and unique dashboards that Veeam provides for

vSphere.

Heatmap Dashboard:

Easy to access live data from any object in your Hyper-V or vSphere environment with incontext dashboards and drill-down capabilities. Veeam widgets work in tandem with dashboards to give you instant visualization of the metrics that matter most to you.

Capacity planning for hybrid cloud:

Veeam Management Pack takes the guesswork out of planning resources to run your virtual workloads in the cloud. Capacity planning for both Microsoft Azure and for VMware vCloud Hybrid Service first analyzes your on-premises virtual workloads and then provides recommendations for the required cloud IaaS resources.

Key Components of Veeam Management Pack.

Veeam Management pack is the most widely used MP to monitor the VMware infrastructure in the organization. So today we will see the key componets of this Veeam Management pack

Following are the Key components

• Veeam VMware Collector — It collects event and performance data from VMware systems.

• Veeam Virtualization Extensions Service — It is used for centralized configuration of Veeam like adding Host to monitor,disable jobs,remove host,adding licenses etc.

• Veeam Virtualization Extensions UI — web UI for configuration of the Extensions Service and the managed Collectors.All Veeam relate config has t be done from this UI only. You calose use VEShell, which is Veeam powerhsell extension 

• Veeam Management Packs — It contain all the rules,monitors and other dasbaord which when imported to SCOM will give you rich visbility of your VM infrastructure.