Extending monitoring with management packs

With management packs, you can extend Operations Manager (OpsMgr) and its possibilities.

On a hybrid hypervisor environment, where there is a mix of Hyper-V and VMware ESXi servers, the Veeam MP extends the OpsMgr for monitoring, alerting, and for undertaking remedial actions on VMware vSphere.

Veeam MP for VMware uses the vSphere API to gather information to allow monitoring and reporting against all layers of the VMware stack, which include layers from the underlying hardware through network, storage, hosts, clusters, datacenters, and up to vCenter. Examples of the key metrics for the VMware admins include latency, CPU ready, disk, and memory pressure against a host.

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At the time of this writing, Veeam ...

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