vFabric Hyperic Now Part of Zimbra Appliance

As of this week, organizations using the popular Zimbra next generation email and collaboration solution, can download a new VMware Zimbra Appliance that is set up for simplified management and monitoring with vFabric Hyperic. Requiring no additional setup, Hyperic gives Zimbra admins instant visibility to be able to pinpoint, correct, and prevent application performance problems they may see while tuning the application for their organization or running under load. This instant integration offers piece of mind and a greatly simplified administration of the Zimbra application.

Known for their hosting Zimbra and providing Hyperic monitoring for all their customers, managed hosting provider Contegix has tested the new appliance and has this to say of it:

“Contegix is committed to providing our customers with the best hosting services possible. The combination of Hyperic and Zimbra® Appliance increases our visibility into how customers are using email and collaboration. It enables us to increase our productivity and efficiency in managing this critical part of this infrastructure, while simultaneously helping our customers make smarter business decisions.” — Matthew Porter, CEO and co-founder of Contegix.

Key Benefits

• Flexible Alerting – Hyperic can alert Zimbra administrators within a minute of when the Zimbra application or any of its infrastructure starts to have a performance degradation, indicating a problem is about to occur. Hyperic alerts allows alert recipients to vary based on problem type, time of day and escalation workflows. They can also initiate control actions to self-heal established problems without administrators needing to intervene.
• Automated Control Actions – Hyperic control actions can automatically implement problem fixes, such as restarting a mail server.  When used for established problems or regular maintenance, this can reduce the number of off-hours issues that demand Zimbra administrator attention.
• Advanced Diagnostics – Zimbra administrators now have access to historical trending, log files, and a deep variety of performance indicators so they can have the insight into everything they need to know to quickly pinpoint the root cause of service problems, enabling them to restore service levels with a minimum impact on business productivity.

Pricing and Availability

Zimbra Appliance is currently available starting at USD $625 per 25 mailboxes for a perpetual license. Hyperic agents are now included on all Zimbra Appliances. For more information, visit:  www.vmware.com/products/zimbra

Hyperic is currently available in two editions: Hyperic HQ, the free, open source edition; and vFabric Hyperic, the commercial edition starting at $300 per Zimbra server per year.  For more information, visit http://www.vmware.com/products/springsource-hyperic/

For more information on this announcement, please see the ‘VMware Simplifies Monitoring of Zimbra Appliance with vFabric Hyperic’ press release here: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/zimbra-hyperic.html

Thanks to all the users, community members and the entire Zimbra team for helping us to deliver this integrated appliance!

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