Companion for VMware

What is Companion for VMware?

Companion is a product which provides continuous monitoring of the VMware vSphere environment and alerting functionalities. Companion continuously monitors VMware vSphere and checks for overall health.

Companion gives you insight in your VMware vSphere environment like no other solutions do: simply, with no unnecessary data and with data formatted for easy problem identification.

Companion monitors availability, performance and utilization of the VMware vCenter server, VMware Site Recovery Manager, ESXi hosts, datastores (including VSAN datastore) and network interfaces. It checks alarms, latest log data, VM snapshots status, VMware tools status and many other key elements in the VMware vSphere environment.

If a change in alarms occurs, or if some of the objects in VMware vSphere environment become unavailable, Companion will send you an e-mail alert with latest logs retrieved from VMware vSphere.

In normal everyday scenario, Companion generates daily, weekly and monthly reports with all relevant data formatted for easy identification of problems and administrator permissions changes.

Companion is distributed as:

  • Rasperry Pi SD card image which you can use to run Companion on Raspberry Pi 3 B+
  • VMware vSphere virtual appliance which you can import into your VMware vSphere environment

Companion report includes:

  • VMware vCenter server – Basic information
  • VMware vCenter server alarms
  • VMware vCenter server licenses
  • VMware vCenter server administrative permissions
  • VMware vCenter server VMs snapshots
  • VMs with no VMware tools
  • Cluster – basic data
  • Cluster – resource data
  • Cluster shared datastores utilization
  • VSAN datastore – basic information
  • VSAN datastore – disk groups
  • VSAN datastore – resyncing objects
  • VSAN datastore – VSAN objects health
  • ESXi hosts – basic data
  • ESXi hosts – current performance
  • ESXi hosts – physical network interfaces statistics
  • ESXi hosts – local datastores utilization
  • VMware Site Recovery Manager – basic data
  • VMware Site Recovery Manager – recovery plans
  • VMware Site Recovery Manager – protection groups
  • VMware Site Recovery Manager – protected virtual machines
  • vSphere Replication RPO events
  • Cluster – historical performance (day, week, month)
  • ESXi hosts – historical performance (day, week, month)

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Compatibility

Companion has been tested with following VMware vSphere versions:

  • VMware vSphere 6.0
  • VMware vSphere 6.5
  • VMware vSphere 6.7
  • VMware vSphere 7.0

Companion requires VMware vSphere Essentials edition and above (VMware vCenter server is required).

Trial and purchase

Feel free to download the products, documentation and trial keys on the downloads page.

You can use the product in trial mode until you are sure it is the right choice for you.

If you want to purchase a product, feel free to contact us at info@quaddons.com or using the contact form.

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