Veeam Reporter Enterprise for large, enterprise environments addresses 'VM Sprawl' and change management in a VMware Infrastructure Veeam has announced the release of its Veeam Reporter Enterprise Edition, a more advanced offering of its Veeam Reporter software. As the name suggests, Veeam designed the offering for reporting and change control in enterprise or very large VI3 virtual environments.“Change control is a fundamental discipline in datacenter management, and given today’s problems with ‘VM sprawl,’ it’s vitally important to have a clear and complete picture of your virtual infrastructure, its components, and their properties,” said Ratmir Timashev, Veeam president and CEO. “To effectively manage a large enterprise full of virtual machines, you must be able to see what you have, what storage resources are being consumed, and what is changing. Veeam Reporter Enterprise provides a clear view of the large virtual infrastructure, both today and over time.”Like the original Veeam Reporter, Reporter Enterprise collects information about the VI3 environment, its components, and configuration settings and then gives you the ability to view that information in a number of formats such as Microsoft Visio, Excel, Word, and Adobe PDF. The company has also added new features to Reporter Enterprise such as change management, which allows admins to get point-in-time views of their virtual environment and generate reports so that they can analyze configuration changes made over time. To control VM sprawl, the software allows admins to see which virtual machines were recently added into the environment, and it allows them to verify the owner of the virtual machine. It also provides detailed graphical reports to visualize datastore capacity and utilization, VM populations on each datastore, and usage statistics for local and shared datastores.The product is available starting at $375 per socket. You can find out more information and download a trial of Veeam Reporter on the company’s Web site. Software Development