In this webinar replay, you’ll learn from one of the biggest names in the virtualization world -Greg Shields of Concentrated Technology.

• Tasks in VM Security
• How tasks are managed across Hyper-V environments today
• Whether VM-centrism is security friendly
• What’s missing from WFS
• Tactics to make management of multiple VMs across multiple clients better
• Specific benefits to providers

With the addition of our latest product – Cloud Backup for Hyper-V – we now have a full suite of Hyper-V management products. We have dubbed this suite our 5nine Hyper-V Cloud Management Suite and it has a all new product page, detailing what is included. Here’s a quick summary of what you get in the only third-party Hyper-V Cloud management package:

• Backup – backup and recovery virtual machine  in you Hyper-V cloud infrastructure. Features include bare metal restore, Microsoft VSS support, and support for up to a 16-node Hyper-V cluster.
• Monitor – monitor the status of your Hyper-V servers and virtual machines in your Hyper-V cloud. What is up and what is down? What server is out of memory or storage? What is the resource utilization trend in my Hyper-V cloud?
• Virtual Firewall and Anti-Virus - manages and secures virtual network traffic, security heartbeat that stops VMs if rules aren’t being enforced, anti-virus and anti-malware protection, bandwidth throttling, and stateful packet inspection

It’s a COMPLETE management suite for your Hyper-V cloud. For more information and a free evaluation, visit the 5nine Hyper-V Cloud Management Suite product page.

Find out what virtualization expert, Greg Shields, had to say about managing and monitoring Hyper-V in the cloud in this webinar.

Just announced, the new 5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V is a highly scalable, fast, easy to use and cost effective backup and replication solution designed specifically for Hyper-V Private Clouds.

Hosting companies, cloud providers, and enterprises using Hyper-V Private Cloud asked us for a simple, fully scriptable and cost effective tool that performs backup and restore. The new 5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V is that tool.

The newly released 5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V is a part of 5nine Cloud Manager for Hyper-V that includes 5nine Cloud Backup, Monitor, Anti-Virus and Virtual Firewall for Hyper-V.

Features include:

• Fully Scriptable, with PowerShell API, so the backup system could be easily integrated into Cloud Providers control panel and for end user recovery, as well as any other Cloud Management applications (read API documentation here).
• 5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V runs on Server 2008 R2/SP1, Server 2008 R2 Core and FREE Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2/SP1.
• Operate at the Host level, not the Guest level, allowing for image-based backups that don’t impact running virtual machines or their applications.
• Employs Microsoft VSS to ensure that guest OS and VSS-supported application data has backup integrity and allowing you to perform backups anytime, without having a dedicated backup window.
• Ability to restore an entire VM, similar to a bare metal restore.
• Support for up to a 16 node Hyper-V clusters with hundreds of VMs and CSVs.
• Includes a centralized Backup Management console, even at the lowest license level.

For a limited time, a FREE version of 5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V is also available. Its only limitation is that it is limited to sequential backup and restore of virtual machines and doesn’t offer an API.

Server virtualization can dramatically simplify backup and disaster recovery. This is the chance that organizations of all size have been waiting for. It’s time to rethink your disaster recovery and data protection strategy!

5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V is much easier to use and less expensive than legacy tools. By providing data protection and disaster recovery of the virtual infrastructure you will protect your investment in virtualization and save your company from disaster.

Unlike traditional file-based backups, 5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V provides image-based backup. This allows for quick recovery of an entire set of Virtual Machines on demand or at a scheduled time.

With the release of the new 5nine Backup, the 5nine Cloud Manager for Hyper-V suite now includes 5nine Virtual Firewall and Anti-Virus for Hyper-V, 5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V and the new 5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V. The 5nine Cloud Manager for Hyper-V suite is the best choice you can use to create the most affordable, secure, and easy-to-maintain Hyper-V infrastructures, while still adhering to Microsoft Best Practices for free, core, and full installations of Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2/R2 SP1.

We welcome your feedback at info@5nine.com!

Pricing and Availability:

5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V can be purchased through www.5nine.com web site, 5nine distributors, preferred resellers, and/or by contacting info@5nine.com.

5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V is currently priced at $99.00/managed server (host), independent of the socket amount. If purchased with 5nine Cloud Monitor – you’ll get Cloud Backup for only $149.00/server (host).

Please fill out 5nine Cloud Manager for Hyper-V Buy Now form to receive price for all 5nine Manager for Hyper-V Cloud components, or contact 5nine Software at: info@5nine.com, +1 877 275 5232

In this webinar replay, you’ll learn from one of the biggest names in the virtualization world – Greg Shields of Concentrated Technology.

Watch the full webinar, below…

In the webinar, Greg covers:

• How monitoring local resources of hosts and VMs is easy
• How monitoring private cloud resources is also easy because those resources are still within your control
• How monitoring public cloud resources (really just virtual machines) is HARD

To solve the challenge of monitoring VMs in a public cloud, you need tools that:

• Aren’t affected by by the status of the host or guest
• That can use WMI to gain additional information about the VM guest OS
• That aren’t dependent on third-party products or hosting provider software
• Offer API and scripting
• Are cluster and live-migration aware
• Single interface that applies to all hosts and guests
• Support both private, public, and hybrid cloud scenarios

5nine’s Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V is the solution to consider

We are proud to announce that an all new 5nine product has been released – Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V. This tools is an All-In-One Monitoring Solution’ for Hyper-V Private Cloud deployments using all flavors of Server 2008 R2/SP1, Core and FREE Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.

On of the greatest benefits of Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V is that it is incredibly scalable and scriptable. Designed for large and medium size Hyper-V Cloud providers, Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V was created to eliminate common use of multiple tools to perform Real Time Monitoring of Hyper-V/Server 2008 R2/SP1 Private Cloud environments.

5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V provides PowerShell, REST and OData APIs that allow seamless integration with other Cloud Management solutions.

“The greatest benefit of 5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V is that it helps to avoid use of multiple management tools for monitoring of your virtual environment. Today, – Cloud providers often use SCOM and SCVMM, but also tools like Nagios to monitor their cloud infrastructure in real time. You can use 5nine Cloud Monitor as an ‘All-In-One’ monitoring solution for Windows Server 2008 R2/SP1, but also for GUI-less FREE Hyper-V”- said Konstantin Malkov, CTO of 5nine Software, — “5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V is also fully scriptable and has various APIs that allow seamless integration with other Cloud Management Tools”.

Features and Benefits of Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V Include:

• Consolidation of multiple management tools into one, reducing the amount of time spent using and maintaining multiple tools.
• Scriptability via REST, OData APIs or PowerShell interface provide seamless integration into Cloud Provider’ management applications.
• 5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V runs on Server 2008 R2/SP1, Server 2008 R2 Core and FREE Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2/SP1.
• Real-time agentless monitoring and historical trending of key performance metrics including CPU, Memory, Network, Disk I/O, and Disk Queues to identify performance issues for hosts and VMs.
• Threshold alerting via email to let you know when there is a problem.
• Performance dashboard offers the latest information in one place.
• Monitoring of selected Services and Ports, providing multiple methods.

5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V is the first piece of our upcoming Cloud Manager product. In conjunction with 5nine Virtual Firewall for Hyper-V, and upcoming 5nine Hyper-V Cloud vBackup – 5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V can be used to create the most affordable, secure, and easy-to-maintain Hyper-V infrastructures while still adhering to Microsoft Best Practices for free, core, and full installations of Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2/R2 SP1.

5nine’s Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V is a powerful and affordable tool for all-in-one management of Hyper-V private clouds. You can try it at no cost with our free evaluation — DOWNLOAD NOW

In a new post by virtualization guru, David Davis (@davidmdavis) at VirtualizationAdmin.com, he shows you how to use our free 5Nine V2V Easy Converter to move a vSphere virtual machine to a Hyper-V virtual machine.

The post starts off by covering 3 Reasons to V2V – 1) Testing Hyper-V 2) Consolidation and Conversion and 3) Moving from one Production hypervisor to another. From there, shows you how and where to download the free 5Nine V2V Converter. However, most of the article is dedicated to demonstrating how you would use V2V Easy Converter to perform a vSphere to Hyper-V VM Conversion, Step by Step.

Read the full article here: How to Perform a vSphere to Hyper-V Conversion by David Davis

And don’t forget to download the free 5Nine V2V Easy Converter, here.