version 5.00 has been released

There is a new release of LPAR2RRD.
Main news are User ACL authorizaton, OS agent alerting and VMware enhancements.

General
•    Internal user management.
You are be able to create users and groups in the tool and assign them rights based on ACL rules.
(visibility of HMC/Servers/LPARs/clusters/VMs).

IBM Power Systems
•    Alerting
  -    Configuration GUI
  -    Alerting based on OS agent performance data (memory utilization, paging, LAN, SAN, SAN IOPS, SAN response time)
  -    SNMP trap
•    OS agent data: new LAN packets metric
•    TOP10 page is enhanced about TOP10 tables per IOPS, LAN [MB/sec] and SAN [MB/sec]

VMware
•    Much faster data read from vCenters as real time data is used only
•    No need to set up historical counter levels, all required data is available without any VMware counter changes
•    Newly collected and presented metrics
  -   CPU ready: per VM and aggregated graph per cluster
  -    Datastore IO latency
•    Resource Configuration Advisor: it runs once a day, analyzes collected data and highlights problems in the environments
•    Custom groups enhanced about additional metrics (Memory, LAN, SAN)


Our storage performance monitoring tool STOR2RRD has been updated to version (2.00)

Newly supported storages and features:
•    EMC² VMAX
•    DotHill AssuredSAN and its re-brands

Best regards
Your LPAR2RRD support team.