Veeam Software, well known for its widely distributed FastSCP tool, announced that it has entered into the VMware management market with a new suite designed to address many of the challenges facing ESX administrators. According to Veeam, the management suite works with and extends VMware's own management platform, VMware VirtualCenter. The company said that the new suite offers the following capabilities: Repor Veeam Software, well known for its widely distributed FastSCP tool, announced that it has entered into the VMware management market with a new suite designed to address many of the challenges facing ESX administrators.According to Veeam, the management suite works with and extends VMware’s own management platform, VMware VirtualCenter. The company said that the new suite offers the following capabilities: Reporting and Documentation – Veeam Reporter automatically discovers and collects information about the VMware Infrastructure 3 environment, its components and configuration settings, including virtual machines, network, storage and VMotion. Reporter generates comprehensive reports in Visio, Excel, Word or PDF formats to help ESX administrators with configuration and change management. In addition, Reporter’s Storage Capacity Report helps administrators and datacenter managers with storage management, capacity planning and chargeback. Performance monitoring and troubleshooting – Veeam Monitor is an agentless solution that supports the monitoring of multiple ESX Servers and multiple VirtualCenters. Veeam Monitor provides single-screen detailed reporting and alerting of key usage and performance statistics by cluster, resource pool or virtual machine. Configuration management – Veeam Configurator allows administrators to manage advanced settings and subsystems of multiple VMware ESX Servers easily without accessing the command line, writing scripts or manually editing configuration files. Veeam Configurator provides a Windows GUI that integrates with and extends the capabilities of VMware VirtualCenter.“Virtualization technology offers an opportunity to dramatically improve the flexibility and manageability of enterprise systems,” said Ratmir Timashev, Veeam Software president and CEO. “On the other hand, fast virtualization adoption by medium and large enterprises creates new systems management challenges. These new virtualized environments call for different approaches, as well as new management tools. Traditional physical systems management tools simply aren’t designed to do it. Veeam has created the most comprehensive set of tools designed specifically for VMware ESX environments.”Veeam’s new management suite for VMware is now available at a cost of $270 per socket. The company will be demonstrating the new product while at VMworld Europe next week. Software Development