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Veeam = New Gold Sponsor

I’m pleased to announce Veeam as the next Gold Sponsor

Now Veeam probably need no introduction as most people know I once was “the veeam guy” especially in Europe. Veeam are well known for the Backup solution Veeam Backup & Replication. They are the best at what they do but I’m not saying they are the best solution for everything, or the only solution in town but I can safely say they are seen as the community favourite. Ratmir the founder of Veeam has IMO invested a lot of money in supporting the community so you have to applaud them for that.

It took me sometime thinking about what I would say in this introduction and I figured that most people know about their Veeam Backup product so I might be a good idea to plug their other flagship solution Veeam Management Pack v7 for System Center

Veeam Management Pack is one of the best kept secrets and has been for many years. Its plain and simple if you use SCOM and you want to manage VMWare you need this in your life:
TBH it has that many features it’s hard to list. It’s packed full of reports and metrics and knowledge and the list is endless. So here’s how they position their features and benefits:

  • Get complete visibility of Hyper-V and vSphere environments in System Center
  • Monitor your Veeam Backup infrastructure from a single console in System Center
  • Manage and plan for growth with capacity planning reports
  • Find problems in real time and shorten the time between problem discovery and system recovery
  • Increase datacenter efficiency using analysis reports to right-size your VMs and find idle VMs or garbage files

Trust me it’s a no brianer… GOT VMWARE and SCOM YOU NEED THIS!

Devolutions = New Gold Sponsor

I’m pleased to announce that Devolutions is our new gold sponsor.
Now they have a free tool I’ve been using for sometime now after @dszp (who one the first people I connected to in twitter) told me about this wonderful software for allowing me to manage my RDP sessions like a local connection broker called Remote Desktop Manager

Actually what I found was it was so much more… not only does it have the ability to broker RDP sessions but has built in other clients too like: vCenter, Radmin, PC-Anywhere, Citrix, Telnet, VNC…… the list is end-less…

Endless connections

Remember back in the day we all use to use Veeam FastSCP well this is one of those most have tools. But my use case around the RDP connections was to make my life easier. You know how sometimes it can irritating when you have to break out the RDP (mstsc.exe) into command line just to switch to admin mode or change the RDP port???? well no more if you use Remote Desktop Manager.

VMturbo = First Gold Sponsor

I’m pleased to announce VMturbo as the first Gold sponsor . We’d looked at VMturbo at Canopy and thought it looked cool and had some advantages because of its hooks into vCloud.

VMTurbo’s is a Software-Driven Control platform that enables organizations to manage cloud and enterprise virtualization environments to assure application performance while maximizing infrastructure efficiency. What VMTurbo told me is they take a market-based approach to dynamically examine real-time performance characteristics, resource capacity, system constraints and service level priorities across the environment to determine, implement and adjust resource configurations and workload placement. This drives the necessary actions to bring the environment into a healthy state where performance is assured while maximizing efficiency — and keep it there as demands fluctuate— quickly, automatically, continuously and efficiently. VMTurbo enables enterprises to meet service levels and business goals, and is the only technology capable of closing the loop in IT operation by automating the decision-making process to control the environment in a healthy state.

So we all know I’m big on automation right now and this takes automation to a new level. Lets not automate just new stuff but automate the old stuff too.

As cloud and virtual environments grow in complexity, enterprises need a new approach to ensure that the best decisions are being made throughout the entire infrastructure, keeping everything running smoothly in real time.  VMTurbo’s patented technology is the only way to automate this process – enabling companies to fully harness the power of virtualization.

VMTurbo also has a 30 Day Free Trial of their Operations Manager product here.

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