Veeam sent me an email on Christmas day and they said that they had a present for me. The present turned out to be their new FREE Veeam Monitor for VMware ESX and ESXi.

This is a much larger application than, say, the Solarwinds free VM Monitor. However, unlike VM Monitor (which uses SNMP to gather performance information and doesn’t support ESXi), Veeam’s free Monitor for ESX and ESXi can go directly to a Virtual Center server, ESX hosts, and ESXi hosts to gather performance information. Veeam Monitor also keeps historical performance data in SQL Express and uses a client/server model where you can have a Veeam Monitor Server and Client on different machines.

I installed the free Veeam Monitor and was impressed. Here are a couple of screenshots.

I recommend trying out the free Veeam Monitor for yourself!