Veeam Management Pack v7 for System Center with Support for Hyper-V Available

Veeam Software, Inc. announced that the new Management Pack (MP) version 7 for System Center is available.

MP and System Center provide true app-to-metal visibility

MP v7 adds Hyper-V support, providing app-to-metal visibility within Microsoft System Center for both the Hyper-V and vSphere layers to proactively monitor and alert IT of issues before they affect operations. Veeam has also introduced the full-featured Enterprise Plus and the Enterprise edition to meet the different IT management needs and budgets of System Center users.

MP v7 extends System Center Operations Manager’s features to deliver visibility of virtual and physical infrastructures and their dependencies. IT managers receive the monitoring, analysis and planning tools needed to quickly resolve issues, make informed decisions and meet the 24/7 availability needs of today’s business.

New features in MP v7 include:

Real-time Hyper-V performance metrics: Gives Hyper-V administrators detailed real-time insight into what is happening in their environment. Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V displays real-time memory and CPU consumption for the host and each associated VM.
Capacity planning for hybrid cloud: Takes the time and guesswork out of planning hybrid cloud environments. MP v7 analyzes on-premises virtual workloads and recommends the appropriate Azure or VMware vCloud Hybrid Service resources so that IT can efficiently plan and budget for a hybrid cloud strategy.
vSphere host security profile reporting: Provides IT with visibility into vSphere security settings for firewalls and services including changes, when changes occurred, who changed the setting and other critical details needed to track security configuration.
Enhanced MP deployment automation: Reduces the time and effort needed to deploy MP to support the largest VMware environments by automatically deploying collection components.

“By fully integrating Hyper-V with Veeam MP v7 we now provide the rapidly growing Hyper-V user base with the same powerful management and monitoring tools that vSphere administrators have long enjoyed,” said Ratmir Timashev, president and CEO, Veeam. “This includes complete visibility of their critical virtual systems, risk mitigation, and proactive monitoring of Hyper-V from Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager console.”

“We are pleased to see Veeam support System Center with the Veeam Management Pack v7,” said Chris Van Wesep, director, product marketing, cloud and enterprise, Microsoft Corp. “With this latest release, Veeam Management Pack builds on Microsoft System Center’s unified approach to management for virtual and physical infrastructure across on-premises and service provider environments.“

“BC in today’s complex mix of virtual and physical resources requires solutions that understand the entire environment,” said Iain Mobberley, technical director, OCSL, a UK-based system integrator and gold Veeam partner. “Our customers depend on the Veeam Management Pack integrated with Microsoft System Center for critical visibility, monitoring and analysis views to reduce IT risks and deliver on SLA commitments.”

Two licensing options are now offered with MP v7:

The Enterprise Plus edition provides full features for strategic visibility of the app-to-metal stack and analysis tools needed for critical decision making, planning, optimization and right-sizing dynamic virtual environments. For example, IT could use MP to provide real-time forecasting analysis of a cluster’s capacity and determine the number of days until computing resources will be completely consumed, enabling administrators to react before a problem occurs. Current Veeam MP v6.5 customers with active maintenance can upgrade to Enterprise Plus edition free of charge.
The Enterprise edition is designed to handle tactical management tasks and includes monitoring and alert management, report templates, and sophisticated dashboards, along with a subset of the management features offered in previous versions of MP.

Introductory Offer for MP v7 Enterprise Edition for Hyper-V
Now through Dec. 31, 2014, Veeam provides up to 100 full-production licenses of MP Enterprise edition for Hyper-V, plus one year of maintenance per customer free of charge. These free licenses are eligible for upgrade to the full-featured Enterprise Plus.

Pricing
Management Pack v7 is available. In the EMEA region the Enterprise Plus edition is priced at €460 (vat net) per Hyper-V or vSphere CPU socket. The Enterprise edition is €250 (vat net) per socket and can be upgraded to Enterprise Plus. In other regions, Management Pack v7 is available at local pricing.

Veeam will showcase its availability solutions at VeeamON: The World’s Premier Data Center Availability Event, taking place October 6-9, 2014 at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV. It will bring together experts, customers and partners who will learn about enabling Always-On Business.

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