One super interesting location to find (free) Microsoft Computer Based Trainings is on the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) website, where you can sign up and follow many courses.

Microsoft Virtual Academy

Improve your IT skill set and help advance your career with a free, easy to access training portal. Learn at your own pace, focusing on Microsoft technologies, gain points and get recognition.

As today (Jan 6th 2012) there are tracks on the following subjects (16 in total):

• Introduction To SQL Azure
  Microsoft® SQL Azure™ Database is a relational cloud database service (RDBMS) built on SQL Server® technologies. It is a highly available, scalable, multi-tenant database service hosted by Microsoft in the cloud. SQL Azure Database helps to ease provisioning and deployment of multiple databases. Developers do not have to install, setup, patch or manage any software, as all that is taken care of by Microsoft with this platform as a service (PAAS). High availability and fault tolerance is built-in and no physical administration is required.
  Customers can use existing knowledge in T-SQL development and a familiar relational data model for symmetry with existing on-premises databases. Additionally, customers can get productive on SQL Azure quickly by using the same development and management tools they use for on-premises databases services.
• Windows Azure Security Overview
  Learn the essentials of Windows Azure Security by covering the security protection included at every layer. We cover the security mechanisms included with Windows Azure at the physical, network, host, application, and data layers. Furthermore, get a basic understanding of some of the identity options you have to authenticate to Windows Azure.

  Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals – VDI
  Centralizing desktops and client computers is an increasing important consideration for all IT departments as they begin to evaluate Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Using VDI to consolidate maintenance activities reduces the time which end-users must spend on OS and application deployment, configuration, patching and compliance, while decreasing hardware costs through virtualized resource pooling and sharing. The VDI course provides a deep-dive into VDI planning and solutions as the final section in the three track program covering Microsoft Virtualization. Learn about when to use VDI, planning considerations, desktop models, Windows 7 integration, application delivery, user state virtualization and comparisons to other technologies. Explore how Microsoft’s v-Alliance partnership with Citrix strengthens and broadens the VDI offerings. Upon completing this course you will be able to understand, plan and deploy the appropriate VDI solution for your business.

• Enhancing Your Business and Career with the Private Cloud
  This track focuses on how the private cloud can help your business and your IT Pro career. You will learn about cloud business drivers and business processes. And you will be exposed to cloud computing at the business level and how to extend that knowledge to the technical level. Lastly you will learn how to extend your private cloud to the outside world and how the resulting hybrid cloud will benefit both your organization and the IT Pro.
• Overview and Infrastructure Changes in SCCM 2012
  This course provides an overview of the new System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (SCCM) product.
  After completing this course you will understand the features that enable SCCM to:-
• Easily distribute applications to users, regardless of device or form factor.
• Perform software updates.
• Device management improvements.

  The course will also cover how SCCM makes it easier to service the rapidly growing number of connected devices in your organization, such as smartphones, tablets, and virtual machines, through centralized global configuration management.

  Course modules will also show you the changes that help simplify the configuration and management of the infrastructure, how to use SCCM to gain insight to and control IT systems through easier maintenance, improved security and simplified configuration, as well as a number of other new features and updates to self-service application delivery, integrated settings management, antivirus management, UNIX and Linux support, compliance improvements, security updates, the new GUI, and much more!

• Understanding Microsoft’s High-Availability Solutions
  This course covers the best ways to provide continual availability to all applications, services, servers and VMs in your datacenter. The modules will cover all the planning, deployment and management considerations for bringing high-availability to every components of your datacenter or Private Cloud.
  By the end of this course you will have an understanding of the basics of each of Microsoft’s HA solutions and when each of them should be used. You will understand all the different methods you can use to keep your services up and running.
  Technologies that will be covered in this course include:-
• Hyper-V,
• Failover Clustering,
• Network Load Balancing,
• SQL Server,
• Exchange Server,
• IIS, DFS-R, DNS
• And every System Center product (including SC 2012) with a focus on Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
• Office 365 for the IT Pro – Platform
  Just exploring the features of Office 365? Wondering if it’s right for your business? Trying to determine what’s involved in migrating to Office 365? This track provides you an overview of the components that comprise Office 365, including the different licenses available and what’s included with each. From that overview, the next modules go in to greater detail on Office Pro Plus – the version of the Office suite unique to Office 365 – and how to deploy/activate it. Additional modules go in to detail on what kinds of administration you can perform with PowerShell, and an overview of the sign-on options available with Office 365, including directory synchronization with your existing Active Directory, and implementing Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) for single sign on between on premises and Office 365 cloud services.
• Microsoft Private Cloud Infrastructure
  This course focuses on how using technologies and tools from Microsoft can help your business build, deploy, and maintain a private cloud. You will learn about the core Windows Server products, and how to use them to build and support the virtualized and physical resources that are part of your private cloud infrastructure. You will be exposed to common cloud computing configuration and management practices, as well as technical details to help you be successful in building a private cloud for your business. Lastly, you will learn how using tools and technologies from Microsoft as part of your private cloud will benefit both your organization and you as the IT professional.
• Building Business Apps with Visual Studio Lightswitch
  Do you think building business applications requires hours of effort and big development teams? This course introduces Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch, the simplified, self-service development tool that enables you to build those business applications you need, quickly and easily for the desktop and cloud. These 5 modules will step you through Visual Studio LightSwitch and have you creating a business application by the end of module 2. After completing all 5 modules, you will have seen how to create an application, connect to and use data, make your application interface more friendly and also see how to extend Visual Studio LightSwitch.
• Office 365 for the IT Pro – Exchange Online
  Wondering how Exchange Online differs from Exchange on premises, and what it takes to migrate or coexist between the two?
  This track covers Exchange Online for IT pros.
  In addition to an overview of Exchange Online, additional modules in this track cover Administration, Migration, Hybrid environments, and Compliance and Archiving options in Exchange Online.
• Office 365 for the IT Pro – Lync Online, SharePoint Online & Deployment
  This track covers some of the collaborative aspects of Office 365, including Lync and SharePoint online, as well as best practices for an Office 365 migration/deployment.
  The modules include Lync Online Overview and configuration, SharePoint Online Overview, Administration, and Extensibility/Customization, as well as the deployment overview/best practices.
• Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals – The Platform
  Virtualization has become a key component of any modern datacenter, offering such advantages as easier deployment, resource pooling, server consolidation, application compatibility, high-availability, reduced costs and centralized management. The Platform course offers a deep-dive into the important technologies that contribute to the core virtualization infrastructure, and is the first track in the three track program covering Microsoft Virtualization. Learn about Microsoft’s virtualization offerings and strategy, datacenter planning, Hyper-V architecture, VM management, virtualized networking and storage, numerous other Hyper-V features, as well as advanced management with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Understand high-availability and disaster recovery considerations to keep your VMs up and running using Windows Server Failover Clustering. Explore how Hyper-V is both different and similar to VMware virtualization through technical and terminology comparisons. By the end of this track you will have the tools you need to plan, design and deploy your virtualized datacenter or Private Cloud infrastructure.
• Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals – Management
  Management has become a critical piece of maintaining a virtualized datacenter or Private Cloud by providing increased scale, faster deployments and integrated automation to reduce the total cost of IT ownership. The Management course provides an overview of Microsoft comprehensive management suite, System Center, and is the second course in the three course series covering Microsoft Virtualization. Learn about the System Center products at a high-level, or dive into any of the technologies which include: Operations Manager for monitoring servers and services; Configuration Manager for deploying software and maintaining compliance on all types of devices; Service Manager for automating IT processes; Data Protection Manager for backing up and restoring servers and VMs; Opalis for integrated and customized workflow processes; and Virtual Machine Manager 2012 for advanced VM deployment and management. Additional modules will cover the PowerShell scripting utility, the VMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 and Private Cloud concepts. After completing this track you will understand how to centrally manage and automate a datacenter of any size.
• Planning, Building and Managing a Private Cloud
  This track will cover the full cycle from understanding, planning and managing Microsoft private cloud offerings. It will start by introducing Microsoft’s vision for private cloud computing and give details on how to plan a successful private cloud project, i.e. from a business & capacity planning perspective and how to work with Microsoft’s Assessment & Planning toolkit. The last part of this track will focus on implementation using a hands-on view at how Microsoft System Center Management tools help manage a private cloud, plus an in depth discussion on how to implement these tools. We will also demo System Center VMM, Opalis and Avicode.
• Introduction To Windows Azure
  Cloud computing is here. Running applications on machines in an Internet-accessible data center can bring plenty of advantages. Yet wherever they run, applications are built on some kind of platform. For on-premises applications, this platform usually includes an operating system, some way to store data, and perhaps more. Applications running in the cloud need a similar foundation. The goal of Microsoft’s Windows Azure is to provide this. This track is dedicated to provide the foundational knowledge an IT Professional needs to be successful with the Windows Azure.
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012
  This course focuses on how using System Center Virtual Machine Manger 2012 can help your business build, deploy, and maintain a private cloud. After completing these three modules you will have learnt about the Virtual Machine Manger 2012 product, and the features it utilizes to build and support the virtualized and physical resources that are part of your private cloud infrastructure. The course will also expose you to cloud computing at the business level, from the perspective of Virtual Machine Manger 2012, and show how to extend that knowledge to the technical level. The last module will show you how to manage applications within your private cloud using Virtual Machine Manger 2012 to deploy, update, and manage them. At the end, we will have illustrated how using Virtual Machine Manger 2012 as part of your private cloud infrastructure will benefit both your organization and the IT Pro.

source: Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) website.

Here is a simple guide how to setup Veeam Backup & Replication and the NETGEAR ReadyNAS (2100, 3100, 3200, 4200 and PRO-desktop series) as backend storage (Veeam Repository) for VMware.

There are two ways to setup the NETGEAR ReadyNAS as a backup target device (Veeam Repository)

1. the first one is by using CIFS where Veeam Backup & Replication v6 would write to a network mapped path (UNC)
2. Or (the Veeam recommended way) you can provision on the NETGEAR ReadyNAS one or more iSCSI target/LUN for Veeam backup data. The Microsoft Windows iSCSI initiator can be used on the Windows OS where you want the Veeam Repository installed on, to directly connect to the NETGEAR ReadyNAS.

note: it is very hard to show performance specs, but iSCSI is also preferred over CIFS/UNC connections because iSCSI will perform normally faster than CIFS/UNC.

For both (CIFS/UNC or iSCSI) ways start by setting up the NETGEAR ReadyNAS with the RAIDar utility.

Here I configured initially just a few things: (check the NETGEAR installation guide) change the NETGEAR ReadyNAS from leasing a IP address from a DHCP Server to a static IP address.
note: personally I prefer a DHCP Server option called IP/MAC Binding this make sure that pre-defined IP clients (based on their MAC address) always get the same pre-defined IP address.
what ever way you choose, make sure the IP address for this NETGEAR ReadyNAS is always the same  

And also check if the firmware on the NETGEAR ReadyNAS is the latest (also for the RAIDar utility) and change the default password (username: admin password: netgear1) 

for this post I’m not going to over the username and share creation piece, (check the NETGEAR installation guide for this) I will use the NETGEAR ReadyNAS default admin credentials (the one to log in on the NAS) and I will use the default share “Backup” for CIFS connection.

1. First in Veeam Backup & Replication v6 create a new repository, by selecting the repository tab on the right, and Right Mouse Click in the repository screen and select Add Backup Repository…

2. now create a name for the Repository…

3. and select next.

4. select Shared folder

and select next.

5. now select (in this case the backup share) the NETGEAR readyNAS (by IP or DNS name)

and select next.

6. Set the Repository setting… (in my case default)

and select next

7. Set the vPower settings (in my case default again)

and select next

8. Accept the review

by clicking on Next…

9. The log on the next wizard screen should be all green…

and Select Finish and you are done!

your new CIFS repository is now there

10. Right Mouse Click on this created Backup Repository…

and select Rescan repository.

11. The process should finish successfully like the window below.

if you get a warning window “Backup repository is not accessible.” (like below)

Delete this failed repository and restart from step 1. but double check in step 5. if your DNS settings are working correct! A very easy fix is to use the IP address of the NETGEAR ReadyNAS (like below) and not the DNS name…

Now all you need to do is create a backup job,
and make sure you select your just created Backup repository (like shown below)
and your backup target is the ReadyNAS!

1. first connect your internetbrouwser to your NETGEAR ReadyNAS device (like https://192.168.102.47/admin/)
   Create an iSCSI target by going under Volumes –> Volume Settings (on the left) and select the iSCSI tab (as shown on the picture below)

2. secondly enable the checkbutton “Enable iSCSI support” as shown below and click Apply

3. Back in this window you are now able to create an iSCSI Target, by clicking on this button (like below)

4. Fill in the information and select “Create” (like below)

5. Accept the “are you sure notice” if you dare (like below)

6. and accept this “process might take a while…” notice below… (like below) if you like

7.the creation process has started (see below)

and…

we are good to go! (excellent info on these steps are also available on the NETGEAR ReadyNAS website here)

7. Now in this case I have a small environment, so I will have the repository service running on the same machine as my backup server VM…

Lets mount this iSCSI target (that we have created in the earlier steps) as a drive letter on this windows backup server VM (In my case this VM is running on Windows Server 2008 R2)

The Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator enables connection of a Windows host to an external iSCSI storage array using Ethernet NICs. This download can be installed on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000. For Vista and Windows Server 2008, the iSCSI initiator is included inbox. The Microsoft iSCSI software initiator makes it possible for businesses to take advantage of existing network infrastructure to enable block-based Storage Area Networks without having to invest in additional hardware.

If you are running an older OS on this server, you might have to install the Microsoft iSCSI initator which can be found here

Select the iSCSI Initator (in the Administrative Tools tab in start menu) (as shown below)

8. Fill in your DNS or IP of your above configured NETGEAR ReadyNAS iSCSI target and click on Quick Connect… (like below)

Your status Quick Connect status should be Connected and your iSCSI target(s) should be discovered with a Succeeded Login. (like the picture below) and you can select Done

9. run from the command prompt diskmgmt.msc , bring the volume online (Right Mouse Click on the info before the volume, and select Online) (see picture below)

10. Right Mouse Click on the volume and create the disk volume (in my case a Simple Volume)

11. Run trough the windows “Volume format” wizard to format the disk and give the volume a driveletter (in my case V: )

(excellent info on this is also available on the NETGEAR ReadyNAS website here)

12. Now setup Veeam Backup & Replication v6 by creating a new repository, Selecting the repository tab on the right, and Right Mouse Click in the repository screen and select Add Backup Repository… (see below)

13. now create a name for the Repository… (see below)

14. and select next. Select Microsoft Windows server

and select next.

15. now select populate and

select the iSCSI driveletter you have created in step 11.

and select next

16. Set the Repository setting… (in my case default)

and select next

17. Set the vPower settings (in my case default again)

19. Accept the review

by clicking on Next…

20. The log on the next wizard screen should be all green…

and Select Finish and you are done!

your new iSCSI repository is now there

Right Mouse Click on this created Backup Repository…

and select Rescan repository.

21. The process should finish successfully like the window below.

Now all you need to do is create a backup job,
and make sure you select your just created Backup repository (like shown below)
and your backup target is the iSCSI ReadyNAS!

that’s it!

VMware vCD VA keystore password is ‘passwd’ and not ‘password’ and the path is /opt/keystore/certificates.ks

Happy 2012 everybody!

We will show our new MP5.7 System Center Operations Manager for VMware there in details, and how you can manage your VMware enviorment with
Microsoft System Center

more info can be found here:

If you use VMware Workstation 8 on your desktop a lot, please make sure to update it from VMware Workstation 8.0.0 (build 471780) to the new VMware Workstation 8.0.1 (build 528992) (release notes here)

It looks like the new version is faster on use

(please be aware the update can take some time)

The biggest challenge for bare-metal recovery is mostly how to recover a backup set to a different host (with e.g. different (brand) network cards etc. that require different (some times kernel-mode) drivers.

With Veeam Backup & Replication a bare-metal restore is very easy (here is how;)

Veeam includes with Veeam Backup & Replication a very powerful command (extract)
this command can do your bare-metal restore

Basically, extract is just a very small (both Windows and Linux versions) program that you can store on your HDD. It even has a command-prompt wizard-like interface, so it’s very easy to use.
You can begin recovery without needing to install Veeam first.

Lets do this:

In my test-lab (read heavy, in power but also in weight notebook) I have setup Veeam Backup & Replication all in one VM. This means al components like the Microsoft SQL (express) Microsoft IIS and the Microsoft index server are running on one and the same VM.

Only the (for Veeam Backup & Replication) backup target disk, is a iSCSI NAS and I used the Microsoft iSCSI software initiators (help can be found here) to connect this as a normal drive letter.

Note: if you have the SQL part running on a SQL farm, you can normally backup the SQL farm.

Now lets backup this VM with Veeam Backup & Replication running on this machine (you have to use the Network Processing Mode, like the screenshot below, to have the Veeam Backup & Replication server to backup itself.)

on the backup target, and lets also copy the command line command extract.exe (for Windows) or the extract (for Linux) here…
(you can find extract here %ProgramFiles%\Veeam\Backup and Replication\) (see below)

This is how it would look like (a full backup file (*.VBK)
and the Extract.exe command line utility… in the folder BackupServer.
These are the only two files you need for a quick bare-metal restore(!)

NOTE: the extract.exe supports recovery from full backup file only (VBK), so there is no point to also copy VRB or VIB with it.

Here (below) is the command line screenshot (from a vanilla Windows machine) to extract the *.VBK file to a normal VM directory with the important steps underlined

1. extract.exe s:\BackupServer\VMstarter.vbk
2. Enter VM name: VeeamBackup5
3. Enter output dir: s:\BackupServer\BR

as you can read you can also make this an on-line command:

s:\BackupServer\extract.exe -restore -vm "VeeamBackup5" "s:\BackupServer\VMstarter.vbk" "s:\Backup
Server\BR"

The extract will look like this (below) in 5 minutes and 10 seconds on this machine (the VM is about 40GB)

Now as you can see the output are normal (*.vmdk *.nvram *.vmx and *.vmxf)
They are even so normal that you can instance start them with VMware Workstation (without any conversion needed) (see below)

Comments? please leave a comment or contact me.

Thank you!

I have been working with the VMware Fusion 4 beta software for some time, and this version is absolute perfect!
VMware Fusion4 is now official released and because it is so seamlessly integrated with the mac OSX, you sometimes forget you are working on a Mac )

This new version support x64 Virtual Machines so running vSphere5 (x64) nested works perfectly.

On top of the x64 Virtual Machines support, VMware was able to squeeze more than 90 new features in this version.

Now for a limited time VMware Fusion 4 is available for the Mac users for only $49.95 (!) you can get it online here: http://www.vmware.com/a/buylink/47

even better; if you type the promo code FUSION20 here on this portal you will see an even better price-drop

Veeam provides you a lot of documentation with regards to the installation and configuration of Veeam Reporter. You should definitely download the following documents:

• User Guide
• Quick Start Guide: Veeam Reporter Dashboard

This easy to follow step-by-step procedure explains how you can integrate Veeam Reporter within Microsoft SharePoint.

1. Create your own Veeam Reporter dashboard. The below screenshot shows you my own dashboard:
   
2. Create a new Page in your SharePoint environment:
   
3. Add a new web part on the new page
   
4. Select Page Viewer, which can be found in the Media and Content category:
   
5. Edit the Web Part to link the Veeam Reporter webpages to the new SharePoint page:
   
6. Copy the URL of the Veeam Reporter widget:
   
7. Paste the URL of the Veeam Reporter widget in the properties bar and modify the appearance settings:
   
8. Repeat step 7 and 8 until you have you finalized your SharePoint website:
   

Although Veeam Reporter provides you many possibilities to create a custom Reporter dashboard, there are some use cases to create a “Veeam Reporter SharePoint Site”. For example for giving insight into your Virtual Infrastructure to business stake holders (who uses SharePoint for their day-to-day reporting tasks)

Go to veeam.com to start your evaluation of Veeam Reporter.

Lately I got some questions on how the new vSphere™ 5 pricing is going to work for Veeam Surebackup™.

As probably known by most people that have any interest in the VMware vSphere products, the license for the next generation vSphere has changed a little bit. The software is not only licensed by the processor, but it has also a maximum amount of vRAM per license type that you are allowed to have on your VMware Cluster.

VMware made an excellent white paper with all the details in it, and this (can be found here)…

The Veeam Surebackup™ feature available in Veeam Backup and Replication Enterprise is a very powerful way to automate the (full) testing of your backup (sometimes called TTO, Test Time Objective)

TTO, Test time objective measures how easily a disaster recovery plan can be tested. It is highly advised to test a backup recovery, so you have confidence your backups can be successfully restored in case this is needed.

Before explaining the question, lets quickly describe How does Veeam Surebackup™ works?:

(the numbers on the explanations are related to the numbers on this drawing below…)

For the Surebackup™ functionality the Veeam Backup and Replication server will create a NFS connection from your backup server (2) to your VMware environment (1).

This connection the backup server (2) will present the compressed and de-duplicated backup data through this NFS connection back to your VMware environment (1) as a “normal” datastore where the VM’s are stored. (For VMware this is native VMware data, not compressed or de-duplicated data) and VMware is able to “normally” start the VM’s from here(!)

The backup-ed VM’s are fully started this way (no real need for extra disk space to fit this VM’s on is needed, since the backup files are “started from this backup target (the NFS mounted backup server “datastore”)

And because this test is done on backup files, all changes during this Surebackup™ test process will be discarded like the VM is a read only VM.

The whole testing procedure is done in a “virtual lab” isolated sandbox (3) Where the VM’s are fully isolated from VMware, so VM’s will not be changed. and this Surebackup™ will test the restore ability like a real restore is done.

Now how does this work with the new licensing changes from VMware?

VMware will count the “high watermark” off ALL VM’s running on your system (with the vSphere license manager module) in any given moment during a 24 hours period. (So this will be the highest reached memory reservation of all the switched on VM’s on you cluster during this 24 hours timeframe)
the vRAM calculation is than done on a AVARAGE of one year of those 24 hours periods.

So if you (like normal) execute this Surebackup™ job for a short period of time (just enough to test the VM machines, and you are not running your VMware cluster close to your vRam limits, you should be able to run surebackup just fine).

Please leave a comment if you have another vision on this

tHENKs!

Earlier Henk posted a nice article with regards to the Veeam nworks Management pack for System Center Operations Manager.

Time to take a sneak preview of the upcoming possibilities with Operations Manager 2012 and nworks. With System Center Operations Manager 2012 and the nworks management pack it will possible to visualize your VMware Service Levels agreed with the business owners.

This way your stakeholders will have always an accurate view of the services the IT department provides.

In our example we have defined 3 Service Level Objectives:

1. ESX availability: ESX servers should be available for at least 90% of the time
2. Memory usage: Taking into account the ESX memory optimization, we do not want to “spend” more then 150% of the physical memory on average of the time.
3. CPU usage: ESX servers should not be using more then 80% of their CPU capacity

Let’s look how this actually works.

1. Go to the Service Level Tracking (SLT) option within the authoring pane in the Operations Manager 2012 console and create a new SLT.
   
2. Give the SLT a useful name such as VMware Infrastructure Service Level
3. Specify the class of object you want to target. In our case the target is “nworks VMware ESX Host Servers”
   
   As you probably know, do not store any SCOM changes in the default management. In this example we will store our SLT to the management pack SLTs
   
4. Now we need to “translate” our above described Service Level Objectives to Operations Manager language.
   We will start with the availability SLO, next is the Memory SLO and we will finish with the CPU SLO
5. Add a new Monitor state SLO, give it a proper name, fill in the SLO goal (90%) and select OK.
   
6. Add a new Collection Rule SLO, give it a proper name, target MEMORY and select the collection rule HOST.Collect.memoryUsedPct. The aggregation method is of course Average and the SLO goal is less than 150.
   
7. Add a new Collection Rule SLO, give it a proper name, target CPUs and select the collection rule HOST.Collect.cpuUsedPct. The aggregation method is again Average and the SLO goal is less than 80.
   
8. We have now created our Service Level Objectives. Review the settings on the last step of the SLT creation wizard and select finish.
   

To review your VMware Service Level you can use either the reporting engine (to schedule, publish,… the report) or you can go the monitoring pane.

Let’s start with the reporting pane:

1. Open the Service Level Tracking Summary Report
   
2. Add the Service Level, define the timeframe and run the report
   
   

To view your Service Level in the monitoring pane, just go to the Service Level Tracking folder and review the Service Level generally or individual on a per Service Level Objective basis:

Please note that System Center Operations Manager 2012 is still in beta phase, meaning that the Veeam nworks management pack is of course not yet supported on an Operations Manager 2012 environment and should not be used in production without notice.

The beta version of System Center Operations Manager 2012 can be downloaded here.
Veeam nworks can be found here, so you just download the bits and have fun monitoring!

Feel free to contact me on steven.duckaert<at>veeam<dot>com.