Automated reporting and change management for your VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3).

Veeam Reporter Enterprise is the first reporting and change management solution specifically designed for large VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) virtual environments. Whether you need to document your virtual environment for executive management, to comply with internal or external requirements for IT documentation, or just to track and document changes, Veeam Reporter Enterprise can help you create management reports and detailed documentation on your virtual environment. In addition, Veeam Reporter Enterprise provides a fully automated way of integrating virtual infrastructure information into your enterprise's configuration management database (CMDB).

Designed for virtual infrastructure administrators, system integrators and datacenter managers, Veeam Reporter Enterprise is fully integrated with VMware vCenter and supports both ESX and ESXi servers, including standalone hosts and the free version of ESXi.

Features and Benefits

• Executive management reporting
• Executive management needs reports and diagrams on the VMware environment. However, documenting it takes a lot of time and effort. And by the time you create a report it is already outdated. Veeam Reporter Enterprise provides comprehensive and easy-to-understand reports in Visio, Excel, PDF or Word formats automatically and right when you need them - avoiding the time loss, delays and errors associated with manually creating such reports. CMDB integration
• Many enterprises have implemented IT configuration management processes through a centralized configuration management database (CMDB). Veeam Reporter Enterprise integrates your VMware environment into this standard configuration management process. Reporter Enterprise provides a PowerShell Extension to run scripts that automatically export virtual infrastructure data (both for the current state and earlier points in time) into your CMDB. This eliminates the manual work of creating inventory spreadsheets, and automatically keeps your CMDB up-to-date. In addition, running your PowerShell scripts against the Reporter Enterprise server instead of vCenter removes a processing burden from vCenter, providing for better availability of this critical Virtual Infrastructure element. Change management
• Veeam Reporter Enterprise gathers infrastructure data periodically, which allows for configuration change re-porting. Administrators can get point-in-time views of their virtual environment, and generate reports to analyze configuration changes over time for configuration drift, security auditing and troubleshooting. Or, you can simply opt to receive an e-mail with all changes to the virtual infrastructure since the last data collection. Compliance and best practices
• When managing a dynamic, large-scale environment, it is important to have up-to-date reports on the configuration of all the elements of your virtual infrastructure. Reporter Enterprise helps you comply with your internal and external requirements and regulations, as well as IT best practices. Unattended data collection
• Veeam Reporter Enterprise provides unattended data collection, as well as centralized data storage to help you discover, document and report on all the objects within your VMware Virtual Infrastructure right now, and at any point in the past. It collects information about your VI3 environment, its components and configuration setting, on an ongoing basis. Reporter Enterprise separates the data collection and report generation operations, so you can set automated collection to occur at specific intervals, ensuring an up-to-date view is ready at any time. PowerShell access
• Reporter Enterprise provides a PowerShell Extension to run custom queries against the collected virtual infrastructure data, both for the current state and data from earlier points in time. Running your PowerShell scripts against the Reporter Enterprise server instead of vCenter allows you to offload script processing activities from vCenter, providing for better performance and availability of this critical Virtual Infrastructure element. The Veeam PowerShell Extension is fully compatible with the standard VMware PowerShell Extension and uses the same data structures, allowing you to run your existing PowerShell scripts against the Reporter Enterprise database with few, if any, modifications VM sprawl control
• The ease with which VMs can be created leaves some organizations with a problem called virtual machine (VM) sprawl. VM sprawl affects storage requirements, due to backup demands, as well as infrastructure capacity. With Veeam Reporter Enterprise, VMware administrators can easily see all VMs recently added to the infrastructure, so they can verify the owner of a given VM and confirm if it is really needed Built for enterprises
• In large organizations, there are typically multiple people involved in managing various elements of the virtual infrastructure. Veeam Reporter Enterprise's client-server architecture provides a web-access interface and SQL Server database back-end, allowing everyone to generate and view granular reports on their area of interest. Reporting content

VMware Infrastructure 3:
ESX/ESXi Server 3.x; VirtualCenter 2.x
SQL Database
MS SQL Server 2005 Express or MS SQL Server 2005. If you do not have one, the Veeam Reporter Enterprise setup will install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.
Veeam Reporting Server
Hardware
Processor: Pentium III CPU or faster
Memory: 256MB RAM (512MB recommended)
Free hard disk space: 5.4 MB of disk space + additional 230 MB if installing MS SQL Server 2005 Express
Network adapter: 10 mbps or faster recommended
OS
WindowsXP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista
Software
Microsoft Installer 3.1
Veeam Web Access
Hardware
Processor: Pentium III CPU or faster
Memory: Memory: 256MB RAM (512MB recommended)
Free hard disk space: 19 MB
Network adapter: 10 mbps or faster recommended
OS
Windows XP (SP2), Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista
Software
Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0 or later
IIS 5.1 or later.If not installed, the MS Windows Installation disk to set up IIS.
Microsoft Installer 3.1
Report Viewing Console
OS
WindowsXP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista
Software
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later
Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later
Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel 2003 or later, Microsoft Excel 2007 (for Storage Capacity reports and Raw Data Analysis), Microsoft Visio 2003 or later, PDF reader