Main news are User ACL authorization, OS agent alerting and VMware enhancements.
General
Internal user management.
You are be able to create users and groups in the tool and assign them rights based on ACL rules.
(visibility of HMC/Servers/LPARs/clusters/VMs).
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Alerting
Configuration UI
Alerting based on OS agent performance data (memory utilization, paging, LAN, SAN, SAN IOPS, SAN response time)
SNMP trap
OS agent data: new LAN packets metric
TOP10 page is enhanced about TOP10 tables per IOPS, LAN [MB/sec] and SAN [MB/sec]
VMware
Much faster data read from vCenters as real time data is used only
No need to set up historical counter levels, all required data is available without any VMware counter changes
Newly collected and presented metrics
CPU ready: per VM and aggregated graph per cluster
Datastore IO latency
Resource Configuration Advisor: it runs once a day, analyzes collected data and highlights problems in the environments
Custom groups enhanced about additional metrics (Memory, LAN, SAN)
Our storage performance monitoring tool STOR2RRD has been released v2.00 as well with these main news:
Support for EMC² VMAX
Support for DotHill AssuredSAN and its re-brands like HPE MSA P2000 and Lenovo S2200/S3200
HPE 3PAR re-implementation
You might not be aware of options which brings our support
SLA: next business day response time for critical issues
Regular health checks
Priority in implementation of new functionality which the customer requests
Creating customized reports based on the customer's requests
Enterprise edition of the product contains:
CPU Workload Estimator based on rPerf or CPW benchmark
Live Partition Mobility and generally LPAR migration support
Unlimited number of items in one Custom Group
Unlimited number LPARs/VMs in 1 PDF report
Check our demo site to see new features and storages. Value Added Reseller program is open for companies interested in becoming of our VAR in their countries
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LPAR2RRD 5.00 enterprise edition for customers under support containing further benefits will be released on the 25th of May.
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