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•   Microsoft® Hyper-V® Support
  • Hyper-V Host Discovery (does not require SCVMM)
  •  Rich Performance monitoring support
    • Compute, storage, network
  • Capacity Planning support
  •   Leverage powerful features like “Time Travel” and “DNA Comparison” for Hyper-V
  • Multiple Hyper-V based dashboards, alerts, trends, and reports
  • Link to SolarWinds Storage Manager target view for Hyper-V LUNs
• Multi-Hypervisor Support
  • Manage VMware and Hyper-V from a single pane of glass
  • Leverage and create unified dashboards across all of your VMs and Hosts
• User Interface Improvements
  • New and improved tab based UI for easier navigation
  • Access recently viewed pages and thumbnail previews
  • New product help page and FAQ
  • New “all reports” page for quick reporting
  • Map widget can now be exported to an external portal

For a complete list of all new features, please visit our release notes.

• Time Travel: Enables historical problem diagnosis in fast moving virtual environments. Answers questions such as:
  • What happened at 3am last Tuesday?
  • Which VMs on the host were driving the most CPU use at that time?
• vSphere™ Plugin: Launch Virtualization Manager from within the client.
  • Leverage Virtualization Manager from within vCenter™ client
  • Launch Virtualization Manager modules from vCenter inventory, dependency maps, Performance Analyzer, and more.
• Capacity Planning I/O: Support for storage and network I/O in capacity planning.
  • Understand datastore capacity through measurement.
  • Answer “when will I run out?” and “how many more will fit?” for storage and network I/O.
• Alert Recommendations: Detailed alert recommendations and “active links” from alerts.
  • Launch directly from an alert into dependency map, search, DNA and performance analyzer in context.
  • Improved alert recommendations
• Improved Performance Charting
  • Increased line count on charts
  • Multiple metrics for each CI (same units)
  • Graph overlays
  • Alerts, notes, config collection
  • Stack charts
• New Out-of-the-Box Content: New dashboards, alerts, and trends.
  • 2 new dashboards
    • Host and Cluster Health
    • Showback: Usage broken down by folder and resource pool.
  • 12 new alerts
    • VM Disk Latency, Host To Datastore Latency
    • Host Bus Resets, Command Aborts
    • “Phantom Snapshots”
    • Datastore Excessive Log File Usage
    • Multi CPU VM Potential Unused CPU
    • Host Network NIC Utilization
    • Memory Limit Less Than Allocated
  • 18 new trends
    • Thin Provisioned Reclaimable Space
    • Amazon EC2 Cost by Folder, Resource Pool

For a complete list of all new features, please visit our release notes.