Hyper-V Monitoring and Reporting with Veeam Management Pack for System Center
Hyper-V Monitoring and Reporting with Veeam Management Pack for System Center Mike Resseler Veeam Product Strategy Specialist, MVP, Microsoft Certified IT Professional, MCSA, MCTS, MCP Hyper-V Monitoring and Reporting with Veeam Management Pack for System Center Introduction Running a virtual infrastructure is and always has been a big challenge for IT teams. After initial setup and configuration of your hardware, networking, storage and virtualization layer, you need to maintain, manage and monitor it. The lifecycle of your environment is the part that costs the most and is sometimes ignored when implementing a solution. In an ideal world, you would implement a solution that would run solid for its lifetime and you would not need to manage, monitor or update it. But this ideal world doesn’t exist, and you need to have a good management solution. The Microsoft System Center suite delivers a perfect solution that allows you to maintain, update, manage and monitor your environment. One of the components of System Center is Operations Manager ‒ a management and monitoring framework. Operations Manager is extensible through management packs (MPs), which contain the knowledge, rules, monitors, graphical views, reports and more to manage and monitor your infrastructure. There are many MPs available. In fact, Microsoft provides System Center MPs to manage and monitor Microsoft solutions such as DNS, DHCP, AD, SQL, Exchange and others. Other MPs are from third-party hardware vendors such as IBM, HP, and Dell and allow you to monitor the hardware through Operations Manager. Those MPs are free when you buy hardware from the respective vendors.
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