In This Edition:

• NEW FREE TOOL: VM Console
• Supercharge Your VMware® Management Powers
• Introducing Virtual & Server Profiler
• Affordable Network Configuration Management for All!
• Announcing Orion Failover Engine (FoE)
• Get Your Geek On With New Product Training Videos
• Renewing Your Maintenance is Easier Than Ever

What do you do when a virtual machine is running amuck—or not running at all—and you just want to restart it without slogging through vCenter™ or vSphere™? Bounce that blue-screened troublemaker with our free VM Console!

Now you can quickly and easily shutdown and restart a virtual machine. Download our free VM Console and in less time than it takes to locate your vCenter or vSphere login credentials, you can bring a hung, frozen, or otherwise unresponsive virtual machine back to life. Now those are some awesome superpowers!

But that’s not all. You can even take a snapshot before you bounce a VM and monitor the real-time up/down status of all the VMware VMs in your network.

With our free VM Console, keeping an eye on your VMware environment has never been easier!

• Bounce (shutdown & restart) VMs without logging into vCenter or vSphere
• Get end-to-end visibility into your VMware environment – from vCenter through ESX hosts to VM guests
• Track the real-time up/down status of your VMs from your desktop & without logging into VMware apps
• Take a snapshot of your VM prior to shutdown

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Need more than just up/down VM monitoring? Maybe in-depth performance monitoring data is what you’re after? Download a free trial of Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and get affordable, easy-to-use performance management for all of your virtualized servers and network devices!

• Monitors the performance of virtualized Cisco® Nexus 1000V switches & VMware servers (vSphere, ESX, and ESXi), & automatically tracks VMs during vMotion™
• Tracks VM availability and performance metrics, including CPU & memory utilization, disk usage, & network bandwidth
• Monitors key vCenter statistics to ensure that your virtualization environment is running smoothly
• Automatically discovers, identifies, & monitors new virtual machines added to any VMware server
• Leverages out-of-the-box VM reports & maintains VM performance using built-in alerts to receive instant notification of VM-related issues

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Virtual & Server Profiler gives you a consolidated view into physical server performance, along with VMware cluster, host, & virtual machine performance. When combined with the power of Storage Profiler, Virtual & Server Profiler maps physical & logical storage to the guest OS, applications, & virtualized environment. That means you can keep an eye on your entire IT environment—from applications & logical connections to the physical infrastructure of the storage array! Now that’s what we call x-ray vision!

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Every busy network superhero needs a sidekick. A sidekick who can help take care of time-consuming tasks such as backing up and modifying device configurations. A sidekick who can prepare network compliance reports. A sidekick who can keep a vigilant eye on the network and warn you when policy and compliance violations occur.

Meet Your New Sidekick—Orion Network Configuration Manager (NCM)!

Orion NCM simplifies executing bulk network configurations in multi-vendor network environments while closely monitoring changes to configuration files and alerting you to potential problems.

Download a FREE Orion NCM trial and put your new sidekick to work!

• Schedule automated backups of all device configurations in complex network environments
• Modify configurations, change community strings, update ACLs, & block MAC addresses across two, ten, or even hundreds of devices—simultaneously!
• Receive real-time alerts when network configuration changes occur to protect against & quickly respond to unauthorized, unscheduled, or erroneous changes
• Detect configuration policy violations to ensure compliance with federal regulations & corporate standards including PCI, SOX, HIPAA, and FIPS

Orion Network Configuration Manager even delivers powerful capabilities found in five- and six-figure network configuration and change management (NCCM) solutions—but at a highly-affordable four-figure price! That means you can automate time-consuming network configuration tasks and still have enough money left over to buy that that portable field of invincibility generator you’ve had your eye on!

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Check Out the New Features in Orion NCM v6.0!

• Fire up user tracking & quickly identify which device is wired or wirelessly connected to which end host resource
• Integrate Orion NCM data into Orion NPM alerts – include diagnostic data from config scripts, the last config changes, or trigger an action to back up the running config
• Use the wizard-like interface in config change templates to quickly & easily execute advanced config changes—no scripting expertise required
• Share config change templates with one-click import or export to or from the SolarWinds online community, thwack

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Sometimes bad things just happen!

Server hardware issues, operating system lock-ups, power outages, and death rays emanating from the Delta Quadrant can all shut down your Orion server. Our new Failover Engine (FoE) can save the day by providing two-minute failover for your Orion network management system—ensuring that you never lose visibility into network performance.

Learn More About the Orion Failover Engine >

Catch a triple feature starring Orion NPM v10! See for yourself why SolarWinds customers are giving these videos an enthusiastic thumbs up.

		Network Monitoring: Orion NPM Installation, Configuration and Initial Discovery Learn how to install and configure Orion NPM and begin monitoring your network in less than an hour. Watch Now >
		Monitoring VMware Servers in Orion NPM v10 Learn how to monitor virtual machine performance, VMware host server health, & critical vCenter Server statistics. Watch Now >
		Using ConnectNow™ in Network Atlas Learn how to create network maps that automatically show device connections & real-time performance statistics. Watch Now >

Ready to get your hands on Orion NPM v10?

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While you’re amplifying your network engineering awesomeness, get the geek cred you deserve by becoming a SolarWinds Certified Professional (SCP).

Learn More About Certification >

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Is your maintenance up to date? SolarWinds licensed products include a year of maintenance from the date of purchase and renewing your annual maintenance provides tremendous ongoing value at a small fraction of the original purchase price. When you keep your maintenance active, you have access to:

• Product updates (major enhancements, new features, and bug fixes)
• Technical support (phone and email)
• Additional product components to extend functionality
• Beta program participation
• Brown bag lunch sessions with product managers and development leads

Now it's easier than ever to renew!

Do you know that with our co-terming program you can pick a single date for renewing maintenance for all of your products, regardless of when they were purchased? Contact us to co-term today!

And do you know that you can quickly and easily renew online in the SolarWinds Customer Portal? Just look under "License Management" after you login and click on the handy "renew" buttons.

Here’s one last helpful tip. Make sure you don’t miss an important renewal notice. Please email us if your contact information has changed.