vCenter Operations Management 5 Suite from VMware has been released


VMware has released vCenter Operations Management 5

The product has been announced and released already few days ago, but I was quite busy with my VCP preparation and studies, so I haven’t been able to cover this release yet. Now when I passed my VCP 510 (you can read my experience on this post: Ressources to prepare your VCP exam – VCP 510) , I’m able to take look at the release and the different versions, pricing and packaging…

The product suite is composed from 4 products – VMware vCenter Operations ManagerVMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator, VMware vCenter Configuration Manager and VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager.

The Capacity IQ product has been discontinued as it’s part of the suite now.

There are 4 editions of the whole suite – the first 2 versions contain only the vCenter Operations Manager product, you’ll be able to see a picture with different versions later in this post.

Here are the different editions:

vCenter Operations Management 5 Suite – version Standard
Advanced
Entreprise
Enterprise Plus

You can also Download Datasheet (pdf) of the product.

A quick quote from the product page:

The vCenter Operations Suite Standard Edition is purpose-built for VMware administrators who want to maximize the performance, workload and health of their vSphere environment.

The Standard version: 

-  Operations management dashboard providing key insights into vSphere performance, health and efficiency
-  Self-learning performance analytics with proactive smart alerts
-  Heat maps to easily locate trouble areas
-  Capacity metering, reporting and right-sizing capabilities
-  Efficiency, stress and risk scores to optimize VM density and consolidation ratios
-  Support for distributed environments with multiple instances of vCenter Server

The advanced version of the suite has more features:

-  Capacity metering, reporting and right-sizing capabilities – you’re able to automate the rightsizing of Memory, CPU etc…
-  Efficiency, stress and risk scores to optimize VM density and consolidation ratios
-  Support for distributed environments with multiple instances of vCenter Server

Then the Entreprise and Enterprise plus versions, they brings the other products included in the suite….. vCenter Infrastructure Navigator, vCenter Chargeback Manager and vCenter Configuration Manager.

The Standard and Advanced products are licensed and packaged per VM with pack of 25 VMs. The standard sells for $1,250 USD and the Advanced sells for $3,125 USD. The pricing also depends on the duration of the support – 1 year support is included, but you can buy Production (24×7 for Severity 1 issues) 3 Year Support as well.

The Enterprise edition starts at $4,875 USD. The enterprise plus you must get in touch with your local VMware Partner.

You can see a screenshot which compares all four editions in the image below. Click to see larger view.

VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite Editions - compare

Here is few screenshots from the product’s page.

The main dashboard.

vCenter Operations Management suite 5 Operations manager

 

The Health and workload view….

vCenter Operations Management suite 5 heat and workloads

And here is another screenshot from the product page – Application awareness. The product can monitor the performance of different windows applications.

vCenter Operations Management suite 5 application awareness

Nice looking… -:)

Source: VMware

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