Veeam Monitor Captures My Attention

Veeam Monior is certainly the best monitoring software for VMware that I have ever evaluated. And, aside from it not being distributed as a virtual appliance, it’s worth the time for a simple install that requires a Windows server to host it.

What’s Veeam Monitor’s Value?

Want reports that are easy to customize and look professional, alerts that are meaningful, stats on disk latency and IOPS and graphs that say it all – Veeam Monitor can deliver them all.

You won’t get unnecessary flash animation or colored arrows but you will get real-time data that will help manage and report your VMware Infrastructure metrics.

The full version of Veeam Monitor features additional enterprise-oriented features including access to:

  • Performance history
  • Full storage monitoring capabilities
  • Trend analysis and capacity planning with scheduled reporting
  • Drill-down into a VM, ESX and vCenter for Windows and Linux process monitoring and management
  • Unlimited alarms and alarm modeling

But I like try before I buy and Veeam monitor has a free version that allows just that. I was amazed with how much I could do with the free version.overall_free

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Veeam Monitor is a tool worth installing. Here’s the link to Veeam’s website: http://www.veeam.com/esxi-monitoring-free.html

Note: Tested with VirtualCenter 2.5 U4 and ESX 3.5 U4 and vSphere 4.0 (VC 4.0 and ESX 4.0)

Originally posted 2009-11-01 08:38:59. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

VMware Infrastructure Toolkit – PowerShell Scripting

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Microsoft PowerShell

PowerGUI scripting is a must know for supporting VMware.

 

 

 

 

 

After spending days evaluating products that would report virtual infrastructure capacity to my liking and that were affordable, I opted to write my own reporting and capacity planning application using PowerShell scripts and Excel.

 

Using PowerGUI and VI Toolkit for PowerShell I created two scripts: one script queries the Virtual Center for data storage capacity and utilization. The second script queries for VM to host capacity and memory – CPU metrics. The information is saved to a .CSV files once a week.

 

Using Excel, I import the .CSV files into my VM Dashboard (Excel) and run calculation for each VM environment (DEV, QA, Prod). To enhance the look of the dashboard, I have thrown in graphs to show resource utilization and a trending graph.

 

The VM dashboard has been well received by managers and those who want to follow week by week changes and usage of the virtual infrastructure. It also helps to proactively grow the VI because we can see weekly growth of each environment and know in advance to add more storage or other server resources.

To get started writing PowerShell scripts or to borrow scripts already written visit the VMware VMTN blog for PowerShell.

Originally posted 2008-12-20 07:14:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter