2009-10-06

Veeam Monitor 4.5

Veeam have released a new version of their Free Monitoring product

 

The following is a list of new features in the Veeam Monitor 4.5:

  • Full Veeam Business View integration for business‐centric performance monitoring,reporting and alerting. Please refer to this video for more information on this feature
  • Configurable custom views which represent “intersection” of groups from different Business View categories, for instance: only show VMs with department “Marketing"and purpose “Desktop”.
  • New view showing top loaded ESX hosts below the selected infrastructure node.
  • Uptime and socket count is now shown in ESX host’s summary.
  • Datastore free space alarm now can be set in relative amount (percents) in addition to absolute amount.
  • Support for Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 and Microsoft Windows 7
  • Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

The following is a list of new features in the Veeam Monitor 4.0.1:

  • Backend Microsoft SQL Server load is reduced dramatically comparing to previous Veeam Monitor releases.
  • Multiple enhancements improving product scalability and allowing for support of very large environments (hundreds of ESX hosts).
  • New “Disk Commands Issued” alarm counter representing the sum of read and write requests to a datastore has been added.
  • “Check Database” command in Veeam Monitor Server Settings program now also checks DB integrity and attempts to correct any issues encountered.

Release notes

And of course - there is more for the full version of the product, and for a free product 
it does a very good job!!