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Today we are at VMworld Europe 2013. At the General Keynote VMware just announced three product updates in their Management Products portfolio.
- Cloud Operations: VC Ops Mgmt Suite 5.8 & vCenter Log Insight 1.5
- Cloud Automation: vCloud Automation Center 6.0 (vCAC)
- Cloud Business: VMware IT Business Management Suite 8.0
vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.8 What’s New
Enhanced monitoring of Microsoft applications
- Out of the box dashboards for Tier 1 applications (MS SQL, Exchange)
- Support for clusters (MSC)
- Application health according to clusters (MSCS & DAG), servers & instances
New storage analytics capabilities
- Out of the box storage dashboards
- Visibility – physical storage infrastructure and data paths (HBA, Fabric, Arrays)
- Application health according to clusters (MSCS & DAG), servers & instances
vCenter Operations 5.8 – Hyper-V Support
With VCOPs 5.8 there is support for Hyper-V Server & Windows Hyper-V using vCenter Hyperic and the Hyperic Management Pack. You need to have Hyperic agent deployed in Hyper-V Host to discover Hyper-V hosts & associated VMs. Relationships are automaticly created in vCOps
All Hyper-V Dashboards are available in the Custom UI (you will need a Advanced License or better)
Out of the box Hyper-V Dashboard
- Cluster, Host, VM Utilization
- Top 25 by CPU, Memory, Disk IOPS, Network, etc
- Datastore Capacity and Performance
- Disk Space Used, Usage by VM, Latency, Commands per Second
- Load Heatmaps
- CPU, Memory, Disk, Network
- Support for SCOM Maintenance
- Identify items from SCOM that are in maintenance mode
- Hyper-V Events
There are two Options for getting Hyper-V Information into VCOPs
- Through vCenter Hyperic and the Hyperic Managmeent Pack for vCenter Operations
- Through Microsoft SCOM and the SCOM Management Pack for vCenter Operations
vCenter Operations 5.8 – AWS Support
With the AWS Management Pack you can minitor your VMs running on Amazon.
Results available in the Custom UI (this also requires Advanced licenses or better)
- Pulls data from AWS Cloudwatch
Leverages the REST API exposed by AWS
Supports multiple AWS services such as - Elastic Cloud Compute
- EC2 instances
- Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes
- Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
- Auto Scaling Group (ASG)
Configurable by Service - Only bring in the services you wish to monitor
VM’s running in AWS
- vCenter Operations 5.8 – Packaging