SolarWinds

Solarwinds has released version 5.1 of its virtualization management product Virtualization Manager. This version is the follow-up of version 5.0 which was released in April this year. Virtualization Manager is the product which Solarwinds acquired when it acquired a company called Hyper9 in January 2011. Virtualization Manager delivers integrated VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V capacity planning, performance monitoring, VM sprawl control, configuration management, and chargeback automation.   Version 5.1 provides the following... [Lire la suite]

There are numerous tools available to assist network managers with their day to day tasks, but most come with a cost. Here are three of the top free tools from SolarWinds that help thousands of network managers every day. Realtime Bandwidth Monitor SolarWinds Real-Time Bandwidth Monitor allows you to monitor interfaces on your network to see how much bandwidth is in use or how much traffic is currently on those interfaces via a constantly updating graph. And it allows you to do so at a very granular level by offering sub-second... [Lire la suite]

Last week the network monitoring and management company SolarWinds announced its second free tool for VMware administrators: VM Console. The first one, VM Monitor, monitors ESX hosts health, providing statistics about the virtual machines state (vCPUs, vRAM, vNICs) and best practices thresholds to recognize performance degradation. This new product instead allows administrators to view, search for, take a snapshot, shutdown and restart the VMs without any interaction with vCenter. SolarWinds published a video to demonstrate... [Lire la suite]

Who's the smartest network engineer you know? It's YOU when you have our new Network Config Generator as your brainy, config-conjuring sidekick! Configuring VLANs and other advanced services can be tedious and time consuming. Who has time to go online and research network configuration settings? Now there's a faster and easier way to squeeze more performance and value out of your network by activating the device capabilities you've already paid for! Download our free Network Config Generator and in less time than it takes to say... [Lire la suite]

LANsurveyor Express for Microsoft® Visio® is a powerful Visio 2007 plug-in that makes it easy to get comprehensive network maps in just minutes! Accessible via the Visio toolbar, LANsurveyor Express automatically discovers your network and produces topology maps in Visio format. Plus, LANsurveyor Express uses Visio SmartShapes® to represent your network devices and populates each node's custom properties with the node's IP address, network name, and fully-qualified domain name. For a limited time the plugin is free instead of... [Lire la suite]

How can this help Exchange administrators? It’s often simple to not routinely keep an eye on our Exchange server as we attend to other tasks during our workday. Then, the phone rings, and it’s not good news. Fortunately, there is a simple tool that allows us to keep an eye on the server and potentially avert problems before they affect users. Similar to a Windows Vista gadget, SolarWinds’ Exchange Monitor is quick, easy, and free. It just sits there and gives us a quick status view of key parameters of our server. SolarWinds... [Lire la suite]

http://servervirtualization.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/10/16/solarwinds-offers-free-virtual-machine-and-network-monitoring-tool/ Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds, a provider of downloadable network management software, has released a free tool to monitor the performance of VMware Inc. virtual environments. The new tool, SolarWinds VM Monitor, and an update to its flagship Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) gives IT a way to manage and monitor their virtual machines (VM). SolarWinds VM Monitor is operated through a desktop... [Lire la suite]