Veeam Management Pack for System Center
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Overview:
Veeam Management Pack (MP) is the most comprehensive System Center extension for managing and monitoring VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V management and Veeam Backup & Replication. Microsoft System Center administrators require real-time monitoring and visibility of their Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere environments to power their Always-On Business. Veeam MP provides complete app-to-metal visibility for both your virtual and physical environments, creating the “big-picture” view of your entire virtualized infrastructure - and all from within the native System Center Management console. With Veeam MP, IT administrators get access and insights to their mission critical applications, including insights into their Veeam Backup & Replication services - delivering on the promise of Availability for the Modern Data Center.
In today's Always-On Business, your team must be armed with accurate system data to make informed, strategic decisions. Veeam MP provides Availability for the Modern Data Center with critical insights from monitoring dashboards, alert management, reporting and capacity planning to keep business and IT services running smoothly.
App-to-metal visibility
Veeam Management Pack for System Center provides a clear picture of the relationships between physical and virtual infrastructure to simplify and accelerate problem-solving. With Veeam, you get integrated VMware and Hyper-V monitoring, alert management, reporting, topology views, dashboards and heatmaps, which put critical data at your fingertips. Plus, you can drill down through data to spot what's really going on, see historical trend reports and accurately predict future needs with capacity-planning tools.
App-to-metal visibility and protection for proactive management
Veeam Management Pack integrates seamlessly with Microsoft System Center, providing complete visibility of your virtual, physical and Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructures from a single console. With Veeam MP, you can visualize relationships and dependencies in topology views, drill down in-context, get real-time data and fix problems fast.
- Arms IT admin with the data they need to make better decisions
- Finds problems before they disrupt your Always-On Business
- Maximizes System Center ROI by adding visibility into virtual and backup environments
- Ensures availability of your critical VMs through real-time monitoring within System Center
- Predicts and prepares for growth of your virtual environment on-premise and for hybrid cloud
Advanced Hyper-V and vSphere management
Veeam MP extends System Center monitoring capabilities with detailed insights into Hyper-V and vSphere VMs and hosts, plus the hardware, storage and network resources they run on, as well as the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure.
Veeam MP automatically integrates System Center's native monitoring of critical applications like Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server and provides a drill-down view from the application to the virtualization layer, and further to the hardware data.
Complete Visibility
For the true app-to-metal picture, enhance your System Center investment with a management pack that fully understands the relationship between your physical and virtual resources. Veeam MP delivers deep visibility of your entire environment, all from a single pane-of-glass within the System Center Operation Manager console.
Veeam and Microsoft System Center work better together to deliver app-to-metal visibility and protection.
Veeam MP gives you complete, real-time data to help solve problems fast and plan for the future. From the Veeam Morning Coffee Dashboard for a broad view of critical metrics to start your day, to detailed alert management and reporting, Veeam MP provides the visibility you need to manage your missioncritical applications and services.
Veeam MP
Veeam MP includes strategic, capacity-planning tools with reports that forecast and help model on-premises and cloud resources needed to efficiently power your business. This includes deep-dive reports on oversized and undersized VMs, zombie VMs, lost storage and real-time alerts to notify you if your Veeam Backup Repository will run out of capacity or if a Hyper-V or vSphere cluster will run out of memory.
High-speed recovery
With the increasing demands for 24x7 application and service availability Veeam understands your need to shorten the time between problem discovery and system recovery. Veeam MP helps you quickly identify problems at the physical host, VM, and application layer. You immediately see where the real problem is and how it will affect business. As a result, your IT teams can eliminate the risk of blind spots, resolve problems faster and ensure SLA with greater confidence.
Verified protection
Veeam MP's real-time monitoring confirms both Veeam Backup job success and completion within the backup window. With Veeam MP's new detailed backup reports, you will know that you are ready to meet your recovery point objective (RPO). Veeam MP will proactively alert you if RPO targets are in danger of falling outside of desired ranges.
The proactive monitoring in Veeam Management Pack, coupled with Veeam Backup & Replication's high-speed recovery, keeps the total time of outages and issues to a minimum. And with continuous visibility of the mission-critical virtualization and protection infrastructure, you know that your business data is available - and protected.
Veeam Management Pack for System Center is available in two editions to best meet your IT operations needs and budget.
| Feature | Enterprise | Enterprise Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Environment managed | Hyper-V, vSphere and Veeam Backup & Replication | Hyper-V, vSphere and Veeam Backup & Replication |
| Tactical Management Real-time alerting |
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| Strategic Operations Advanced reporting of historical data, trends and future projections |
Solve problems faster with topology views
Enhanced topology views of your storage network and compute environments give you deep insights into your Hyper-V and VMware infrastructures.
See critical relationships and dependencies between hardware and the virtualization layer, including VMs, operating systems and applications. Storage topology views show you exactly which VMs are running on specific storage resources so you can see all the services that could be affected if something goes wrong. You can drill down at any point for real-time data.
Avoid downtime and meet SLAs
If you run an Always-On Business, you can't allow performance or availability issues to affect production. Veeam's alert management and visualizations cut through the clutter to help identify root causes and proactively avoid issues. Once you've pinpointed a problem, you can link to a comprehensive Knowledge Base of articles to identify, troubleshoot and fix problems with recommendations and step-by-step instructions.
Achieve higher efficiencies and maximize ROI
Veeam plugs directly into the native System Center management consoles for in-depth analysis reports, right-sizing recommendations, pinpointing hotspots and bottlenecks and identifying root-causes. Veeam MP also integrates into System Center Service Manager, enabling CMDB, Incident Management and more.
Forecast and plan accurately
With Veeam, you have the data you need to justify strategic decisions, plans and budgets so you can meet your growing business needs. Capacity-planning reports let you examine trends, forecast resource needs, use “What-if” modeling and track any over-commitment of resources in your VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. You can even project the resources you’ll need to move from on-premises workloads to VMware vCloud Air or Microsoft Azure so you can run a hybrid cloud environment.
Features:
Veeam Management Pack (MP) v8 for System Center provides app-to-metal visibility of VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Veeam Backup & Replication environments. The latest version of Veeam MP adds innovative, management features including:
- Support for new VMware vSphere 6 capabilities
- The latest in Microsoft Hyper-V management
- A new Veeam Morning Coffee Dashboard & Report
- Enhanced forecasting, modeling and right-sizing
- Updated Hybrid Cloud Capacity Planning
- Detailed snapshot and checkpoint tracking
- Topology diagrams for Compute, Storage and Network
Support for VMware vSphere 6
Veeam Management Pack includes VMware vSphere 6 support to manage the latest hypervisor platforms powering your business. vSphere 6 offers powerful new virtualization capabilities to drive IT efficiencies and performance.
You'll have full visibility of new vSphere features, such as Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) datastores and new vCenter alarms for key services such as host certificate tracking, hardware health, and vShield service.
Hyper-V management
Veeam Management Pack provides new Hyper-V management capabilities to keep IT admin in control with support for VMs on SMB 3.0 shared storage and critical metrics such as CPU dispatch time to show host stress in CPU scheduling. The new Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V dashboard now includes cluster-level views and is fully integrated into both System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Operations Manager for real-time performance views.
Veeam Morning Coffee Dashboard & Report
We call it the Veeam Morning Coffee Dashboard, because it's the first thing you'll want to see when you get to work. The Morning Coffee Dashboard gives at-a-glance, real-time virtual infrastructure status, including physical hosts, VMs, storage and the overall resource utilization. The Morning Coffee Report gives you the full picture of important metrics such as VM density, as well as compute and storage overprovisioning. Plus, it's an easy way for IT administrators to communicate status information up to management.
Capacity planning and right sizing
Are you deploying vSphere 6 on new hardware as part of an infrastructure refresh or growth plan for your virtual environment? If so, you can use Veeam MP's advanced capacity planning, "what-if" modelling and forecasting reports to understand how many VM workloads you can move to a new environment. You can also use Veeam MP's VM right-sizing reports to optimize your environment before a migration for even more efficiencies. Justify your budget and strategic plans for growth by leveraging data with Veeam MP-and upgrade with confidence.
Veeam MP's library of reports are integrated directly into the System Center console and include:
- Host Failure Modeling
- Performance Forecast for vSphere Datastores
- Performance Forecast for Hyper-V Storage
- Performance Forecast for vSphere and Hyper-V Clusters
- Virtual Machine Capacity Prediction
- Resize VMs to reclaim resources
- Capacity planning for hybrid cloud
- Capacity planning for Veeam Backup Repositories
Hybrid cloud capacity planning for Microsoft Azure and VMware vCloud Air
Hybrid cloud adoption continues to accelerate, and Veeam MP v8 has enhanced tools to help. Planning reports are updated with the latest Azure and vCloud Air resource specifications to accurately predict the size and class of resources you'll need as you move workloads to the cloud.
Detailed snapshot and checkpoint tracking
Forgotten snapshots and checkpoints can grow quickly, consume valuable resources and impact performance. See which VMs have snapshots or checkpoints in the real-time heatmap view, -then drill down to the detailed report showing the entire snapshot tree with individual snapshot timestamps and comments to quickly determine aging, owner and justification before you remove it or take other appropriate actions.
Storage, network and compute topology views
Topology views of your storage, network and compute resources allow you to quickly browse relationships and dependencies among your critical applications, services and the supporting virtual and physical infrastructures. Quickly locate the host or storage where a specific VM runs and understand how resource-sharing across your software-defined data center impacts your critical IT services. In-context links from these views let you drill down into real-time dashboards to quickly troubleshoot.
Monitoring and alerting
Veeam Management Pack delivers critical monitoring of data continuously, 24x7, to ensure Availability for the Modern Data Center, with a highly scalable, data-collection system. Dynamically correlated data in Veeam MP alerts provides operators with live troubleshooting recommendations to better understand the root cause and fix issues faster.
Veeam's comprehensive, built-in Knowledge Base serves as your expert-in-a-box, empowering your front-line monitoring team and reducing problem-resolution time. Every Veeam alert has a Knowledge Base article to help you find probable causes and provide a step-by-step solution for fixing problems.
Reporting
Veeam Management Pack gathers and correlates massive amounts of data to present actionable reports, which help you make better technical and business decisions. Configuration tracking and alert correlation shows you detailed tracking of configuration properties for all objects, so you’ll know what’s changed in your vSphere or Hyper-V environment. If there is an issue with resources or capacity, you will have a correlation of events to help you pinpoint the exact cause.
Other analysis reports include:
- VM Uptime Statistics to assist with SLA-compliance reporting
- Top Troublemakers to locate the “noisy” objects in your environment
- Idle VMs to find the “zombie” VMs wasting resources
- Switched-off VMs to locate powered-off VMs taking up valuable storage space
- Oversized and Undersized VM reports for guidance in right-sizing and optimizing your virtual machines
Dashboards
Veeam MP features unique dashboards to help you navigate your Modern Data Center, including:
- Veeam Traffic Lights, combining a Top-10 view of resource consumers, plus built-in, customizable thresholds for an at-a-glance view of problems.
- Veeam Heatmaps for at-a-glance visualization of key performance metrics.
- Veeam widgets to build your own visualization for the exact views you need.
Visibility for Veeam Backup & Replication
Get alerts for failed backup jobs right in the Operations Manager console. Veeam Management Pack delivers advanced analysis reports for Veeam Backup & Replication, including Protected and unprotected VMs, VM verification, Delegated Restore Permissions, Backup Copy job and Capacity Planning for backup repositories.
To see this in action, download a free 30-day trial of Veeam Management Pack. After 30 days, hypervisor management functionality will stop, but you get to keep the alerting and monitoring for your Veeam Backup & Replication environment.
Editions:
Veeam offers two editions of Veeam Management Pack v8 for System Center to best meet your management needs and budget.
Fully supported
Partially supported
| Veeam Management Pack for System Center Editions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Features | Enterprise | Enterprise Plus | Benefits |
| Topology views of storage, network and compute | Maps relationships and dependencies between physical and virtual resources to show how problems affect your business. | ||
| Monitors for performance, events and availability | See what's going on in your environment with real-time data, monitoring and alerts to help you meet service levels and eliminate problems. | ||
| Report templates | Analyze the health and performance of your environment with customized reports that you create. | ||
| Advanced dashboards | Get real-time performance views, customizable heatmap widgets and on-demand Top dashboards with "traffic lights." | ||
| Built-in knowledge base | Decrease time to resolution, with expert guidance. Provides context to warnings and alerts, and offers corrective actions. | ||
| Host Security Profile reporting for vSphere | Enterprise only shows current settings. Enterprise Plus tracks and reports security setting changes. | ||
| Capacity planning for hybrid cloud | Get invaluable guidance when planning your hybrid cloud environment. Analyze your on-premises virtual workloads and get recommendations for the IaaS resources required in Microsoft Azure or VMware Hybrid Cloud. | ||
| Resource right-sizing | Right-size and optimize your valuable resources by identifying both oversized or undersized VMs. | ||
| Configuration tracking and alert correlation | Determine whether configuration changes triggered specific alerts, so you can resolve problems faster. | ||
| Morning Coffee Dashboard and Report | Get at-a-glance, real-time status of your virtual infrastructure. | ||
| Snapshot Summary Report | Quickly determine snapshot aging, owner and justification. | ||
| Capacity planning and modeling | Use "what if" modeling and examine trends to predict capacity. Capacity planning for backup predicts when the repository will run out of storage and provides recommendations. | ||
| Idle VM discovery | Reclaim wasted resources from idle and powered off VMs. | ||
| Availability and protection status | Know which Veeam backups have valid recovery points, identify VMs that lack proper backup protection and see Veeam SureBackup verification. | ||
| Restoration Activity | See all valid Veeam backup recovery points for backup protection, including Veeam SureBackup verification. | ||
| Top troublemakers | Finds the noisy objects that generate the most alerts. | ||
| Veeam Collector auto-deployment for vSphere | Simplifies installation for faster deployment to even the largest environments. | ||
| Failover data collection for vSphere | Guarantees delivery of monitoring data with full redundancy of collectors, adds failover and load balancing. | ||
What's new in Veeam Management Pack (MP) Version 8:
Veeam Management Pack (MP) v8 for System Center delivers app-to-metal visibility of VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Veeam Backup & Replication environments. New in v8, Veeam Management Pack provides support for VMware vSphere 6 offering full visibility into all of the new vSphere features, Hyper-V management capabilities and the all new Veeam Morning Coffee Dashboard & Report, for at-a-glance, real-time status of your virtual infrastructures.
Support for VMware vSphere 6
Veeam Management Pack includes VMware vSphere 6 support to manage the latest hypervisor platforms that power your business. vSphere 6 offers powerful new virtualization capabilities to drive IT efficiencies and performance. You'll have full visibility of new vSphere features, such as Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) datastores, new vCenter alarms for key services such as Host Certificate tracking, Hardware health, and vShield service.
Enhanced Hyper-V management
Veeam Management Pack provides enhanced, Hyper-V management capabilities to keep IT admins in control with support for VMs on SMB 3.0 shared storage and critical metrics such as CPU dispatch time, which show host stress in CPU scheduling. The new Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V now includes cluster-level views and is fully integrated into both System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Operations Manager for real-time performance views.
Figure 1. Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V
Veeam Morning Coffee Dashboard & Report
Start your day with the Veeam Morning Coffee Dashboard. This view delivers at-a-glance, real-time status of your virtual infrastructure, including physical hosts, VMs, storage and overall resource utilization. The Veeam Infrastructure Report gives you the full picture of important metrics such as VM density, as well as compute and storage overprovisioning. Plus, it gives IT administrators any easy way to communicate status up to management.
Figure 2. Veeam Morning Coffee Dashboard
Hybrid Cloud planning for Microsoft Azure and VMware vCloud Air
As the demand to move on-premises, VM workloads to the cloud grows, Veeam MP provides increased support for Microsoft Azure machine types, allowing you to easily predict the resources you need to power those workloads in the cloud.
Detailed snapshot and checkpoint tracking
Forgotten snapshots and checkpoints can grow quickly, consume valuable storage resources and impact performance. See, at-a-glance, which VMs have snapshots or checkpoints in the real-time heatmap view. Then drill into the detailed report, to reveal the entire snapshot tree with individual snapshot timestamps and comments, so you can quickly determine aging, owner and justification before you remove it or take other appropriate actions.
Figure 3. VM Snapshot heatmaps quickly identify trouble spots
Visibility for Veeam Backup & Replication
Get alerts for failed backup jobs right in the Operations Manager console. Veeam Management Pack delivers advanced analysis reports for Veeam Backup & Replication, including the new:
- Backup Infrastructure Assessment report, proactively analyzes your environment to warn of possible backup issues.
- Job Configuration Change Tracking, tracks changes in the backup server job configuration, including a log of who performed the change.
- Delegated Restore Permissions Overview report, conveniently displays a summary of restore permissions and the corresponding roles configured in the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.
- Additional monitoring services, including:
- RPO Monitor, proactively generates alerts if RPO targets are in danger of falling outside of preconfigured ranges.
- Job transport mode failover, generates an alert when a backup job fails to use the recommended, more robust VM disk-backup methods.
- Backup version monitor, tracks the versions of Veeam Backup infrastructure components such as proxies and repositories.
Supported Environments:
Supported Platforms
Microsoft Platforms:
- Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1, R2, R2 Update Rollup 3 and later
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 and later
- Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 and later
VMware Platforms:
- vCenter Server 4.1 and later, including vSphere 6
Veeam Backup & Replication Platforms:
- • Veeam Backup & Replication v7 and later
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Pricing Notes:
- All Prices are Inclusive of GST
- Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.
- Veeam Software is licensed per physical CPU or socket for each Managed Server unless otherwise specified. Base products include first year maintenance.
- Veeam Software reserves the right to correct an error without notice.
- As of October 1st 2018, the minimum purchase requirement on all subscription orders must be 10VMs.
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