ManageEngine OpStor Adds Support for EMC Avamar Backup Servers

ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation, and a real-time IT management company, has added device support for EMC Avamar to enable backup server monitoring in OpStor, its SRM and capacity forecasting solution.

The latest version of OpStor also features an intuitive dashboard that provides storage admins a snapshot of all the activity in their environment.

ManageEngine demonstrated OpStor and its new support for Avamar backup servers at Oracle OpenWorld 2014 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.

Backup and recovery strategy is an important part of the storage admins’ profile where monitoring the status of backup servers is of paramount importance. Juggling between two products – one for backup servers and another for monitoring – can be troublesome and time consuming for an admin. OpStor has the solution admins are looking for.

“Ensuring reliable backup and recovery are the core activities of storage admins, and backup servers are an indispensable part of that. With OpStor, which now supports monitoring of EMC Avamar backup servers, admins can be assured of reliable backup and recovery of their mission-critical data from a single console,” said Pravin Kumar, product manager, OpStor at ManageEngine.

Monitoring Backup Servers with OpStor
OpStor supports more than 100 different devices including RAIDs, tape libraries, switches, HBAs and host servers from a multitude of vendors such as EMC, HP, Dell, IBM, QLogic, Hitachi, Infortrend, Brocade and VMware.

OpStor lets storage admins view following metrics for Avamar:

• Servers: data protected, overall utilization, last updated time
• Client: last backup date, last modified time, client backup status
• Node: utilization by OS/user, network transmitted/received, disk reads/writes, utilization, state, ping time and more

Inclusion of support for Avamar backup servers has added a new dimension to the monitoring capabilities of OpStor. With the addition of backup servers, OpStor emerges as a one-stop solution for organization-wide storage monitoring needs.

In addition to the Avamar support, OpStor gains a new dashboard, which summarizes all the activity happening in the storage environment at a glance. With its new, intuitive dashboard, it leverages its capabilities to provide a snapshot of the overall status of a storage environment with the stats of the top 10 disks and tapes based on metrics such as reads, writes and IO/s. This new display will help storage admins address critical alerts and manage their devices more effectively.

OpStor version 9 is available with prices starting at $795 for up to 25 disks.

Users can request to download a free 21-day trial version of OpStor with the new dashboard feature and EMC Avamar. Existing customers can access the dashboard feature when they upgrade to OpStor version 9.