{"id":11282,"date":"2011-06-10T08:37:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T08:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11282"},"modified":"2011-06-10T08:37:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T08:37:53","slug":"veeam-esx-monitoring-for-scom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11282","title":{"rendered":"Veeam ESX Monitoring for SCOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At yesterday\u2019s VMware event, I wandered over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/go.veeam.com\/5-ways-to-put-vpower-to-work-for-you.html?ad=aidanfinn\" target=\"_blank\">Veeam<\/a> stand to get myself a demo of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veeam.com\/vmware-microsoft-esx-monitoring.html\" target=\"_blank\">nworks Management Pack for VMware<\/a>.&#160; This allows OpsMgr (System Center Operations Manager 2007) to natively monitor ESX(i) without installing an agent on the host, with or without vSphere.&#160; They fired up an RDP session and gave me a guided tour.&#160; I was impressed with the solution.&#160; It had all you would expect from an OpsMgr monitored object: alerts, knowledge base, diagrams, and reports.<\/p>\n<p>This reinforces the fact that even if you do deploy ESXi then this does not rule out the use of what I believe to be the best monitoring solution out there (even if it is my job to convince you of that!).&#160; With the nworks management pack and OpsMgr, you can include the mainframe-important-like virtualisation layer in the management of your hardware, operating system, services, application, and SLA stack.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, if you are an SME then you can also use this management pack with System Center Essentials.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:045e27fc-25d2-495d-9587-fbc179b720da\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMware\" rel=\"tag\">VMware<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Operations+Manager\" rel=\"tag\">Operations Manager<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center+Essentials\" rel=\"tag\">System Center Essentials<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\" rel=\"tag\">System Center<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At yesterday\u2019s VMware event, I wandered over to the Veeam stand to get myself a demo of their nworks Management Pack for VMware.&#160; This allows OpsMgr (System Center Operations Manager 2007) to natively monitor ESX(i) without installing an agent on the host, with or without vSphere.&#160; They fired up an RDP session and gave me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Veeam ESX Monitoring for SCOM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[83,193,194,103],"class_list":["post-11282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scom-2007","tag-operations-manager","tag-system-center","tag-system-center-essentials","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}