Installed as a WFP-extension – 5nine Anti-Malware and Virtual Firewall 3.0 continues to support 5nine v-Firewall 2.x PowerShell APIs and Management GUI similar to the popular 5nine Virtual Firewall and Anti-Virus version 2.x. Agentless, easy to deploy and powerful, the Security and Compliance Solution for Windows Server”8” and the NEW version of Windows Server Hyper-V is built using advanced Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) architecture and APIs for the new Hyper-V Virtual Switch. Thus the new version of 5nine Anti-Malware and vFirewall does not require installation of In-Guest drivers to perform Intra-VM filtering and protection.
The new 5nine Security and Compliance Solution is built exclusively for the upcoming Windows Server “8” Hyper- V architecture to meet increasing demand for Anti-Malware and Compliance solutions for Microsoft virtualization and for Microsoft Private Cloud.
This preview from 5nine Software has become a reality due to very elegant and powerful WFP and Microsoft’s Hyper-V Virtual Switch and extensions developed by 5nine.
Are you a service provider or enterprise implementing Hyper-V? You need a solution to security and protect that Hyper-V infrastructure and the critical company applications running inside.
Here are 5 reasons why 5Nine Security Manger is the right choice:
Reason #1 – You Need It
5nine Virtual Firewall controls network traffic between virtual machines (VMs) and allows to manage the security of your Hyper-V environment, programmatically, on per-VM basis. Besides the firewall functionality, the ‘smart Anti-Virus’ detects and blocks malicious activities and improves the security of Hyper-V virtualized environment – without causing capacity bottlenecks.
Compliance is a crucial piece of any service provider or enterprise. No matter what standards you have to comply with, protecting your virtual infrastructure is a key piece of the puzzle.
Reason #4 – Value
5nine Security Manager is less expensive than the competition and available as a free trial
Reason #5 – Vision
5nine Security Manager is from a visionary in Hyper-V tools and praised by many Virtualization experts. It’s used by leading service providers and large enterprises in their Hyper-V infrastructure.
To view a video on 5Nine V-Firewall for Hyper-V or to download a free trial or purchase the software go to CLICK HERE.
With the addition of our latest product – Cloud Backup for Hyper-V – we now have a full suite of Hyper-V management products. We have dubbed this suite our 5nine Hyper-V Cloud Management Suite and it has a all new product page, detailing what is included. Here’s a quick summary of what you get in the only third-party Hyper-V Cloud management package:
Backup – backup and recovery virtual machine in you Hyper-V cloud infrastructure. Features include bare metal restore, Microsoft VSS support, and support for up to a 16-node Hyper-V cluster.
Monitor – monitor the status of your Hyper-V servers and virtual machines in your Hyper-V cloud. What is up and what is down? What server is out of memory or storage? What is the resource utilization trend in my Hyper-V cloud?
Virtual Firewall and Anti-Virus - manages and secures virtual network traffic, security heartbeat that stops VMs if rules aren’t being enforced, anti-virus and anti-malware protection, bandwidth throttling, and stateful packet inspection
It’s a COMPLETE management suite for your Hyper-V cloud. For more information and a free evaluation, visit the 5nine Hyper-V Cloud Management Suite product page.
Find out what virtualization expert, Greg Shields, had to say about managing and monitoring Hyper-V in the cloud in this webinar.
Just announced, the new 5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V is a highly scalable, fast, easy to use and cost effective backup and replication solution designed specifically for Hyper-V Private Clouds.
Hosting companies, cloud providers, and enterprises using Hyper-V Private Cloud asked us for a simple, fully scriptable and cost effective tool that performs backup and restore. The new 5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V is that tool.
Fully Scriptable, with PowerShell API, so the backup system could be easily integrated into Cloud Providers control panel and for end user recovery, as well as any other Cloud Management applications (read API documentation here).
5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V runs on Server 2008 R2/SP1, Server 2008 R2 Core and FREE Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2/SP1.
Operate at the Host level, not the Guest level, allowing for image-based backups that don’t impact running virtual machines or their applications.
Employs Microsoft VSS to ensure that guest OS and VSS-supported application data has backup integrity and allowing you to perform backups anytime, without having a dedicated backup window.
Ability to restore an entire VM, similar to a bare metal restore.
Support for up to a 16 node Hyper-V clusters with hundreds of VMs and CSVs.
Includes a centralized Backup Management console, even at the lowest license level.
For a limited time, a FREE version of 5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V is also available. Its only limitation is that it is limited to sequential backup and restore of virtual machines and doesn’t offer an API.
Server virtualization can dramatically simplify backup and disaster recovery. This is the chance that organizations of all size have been waiting for. It’s time to rethink your disaster recovery and data protection strategy!
5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V is much easier to use and less expensive than legacy tools. By providing data protection and disaster recovery of the virtual infrastructure you will protect your investment in virtualization and save your company from disaster.
Unlike traditional file-based backups, 5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V provides image-based backup. This allows for quick recovery of an entire set of Virtual Machines on demand or at a scheduled time.
5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V can be purchased through www.5nine.com web site, 5nine distributors, preferred resellers, and/or by contacting info@5nine.com.
5nine Cloud Backup for Hyper-V is currently priced at $99.00/managed server (host), independent of the socket amount. If purchased with 5nine Cloud Monitor – you’ll get Cloud Backup for only $149.00/server (host).
We are proud to announce that an all new 5nine product has been released – Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V. This tools is an All-In-One Monitoring Solution’ for Hyper-V Private Cloud deployments using all flavors of Server 2008 R2/SP1, Core and FREE Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.
On of the greatest benefits of Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V is that it is incredibly scalable and scriptable. Designed for large and medium size Hyper-V Cloud providers, Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V was created to eliminate common use of multiple tools to perform Real Time Monitoring of Hyper-V/Server 2008 R2/SP1 Private Cloud environments.
5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V provides PowerShell, REST and OData APIs that allow seamless integration with other Cloud Management solutions.
“The greatest benefit of 5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V is that it helps to avoid use of multiple management tools for monitoring of your virtual environment. Today, – Cloud providers often use SCOM and SCVMM, but also tools like Nagios to monitor their cloud infrastructure in real time. You can use 5nine Cloud Monitor as an ‘All-In-One’ monitoring solution for Windows Server 2008 R2/SP1, but also for GUI-less FREE Hyper-V”- said Konstantin Malkov, CTO of 5nine Software, — “5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V is also fully scriptable and has various APIs that allow seamless integration with other Cloud Management Tools”.
Features and Benefits of Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V Include:
Consolidation of multiple management tools into one, reducing the amount of time spent using and maintaining multiple tools.
Scriptability via REST, OData APIs or PowerShell interface provide seamless integration into Cloud Provider’ management applications.
5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V runs on Server 2008 R2/SP1, Server 2008 R2 Core and FREE Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2/SP1.
Real-time agentless monitoring and historical trending of key performance metrics including CPU, Memory, Network, Disk I/O, and Disk Queues to identify performance issues for hosts and VMs.
Threshold alerting via email to let you know when there is a problem.
Performance dashboard offers the latest information in one place.
Monitoring of selected Services and Ports, providing multiple methods.
5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V is the first piece of our upcoming Cloud Manager product. In conjunction with 5nine Virtual Firewall for Hyper-V, and upcoming 5nine Hyper-V Cloud vBackup – 5nine Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V can be used to create the most affordable, secure, and easy-to-maintain Hyper-V infrastructures while still adhering to Microsoft Best Practices for free, core, and full installations of Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2/R2 SP1.
5nine’s Cloud Monitor for Hyper-V is a powerful and affordable tool for all-in-one management of Hyper-V private clouds. You can try it at no cost with our free evaluation — DOWNLOAD NOW
The post starts off by covering 3 Reasons to V2V – 1) Testing Hyper-V 2) Consolidation and Conversion and 3) Moving from one Production hypervisor to another. From there, shows you how and where to download the free 5Nine V2V Converter. However, most of the article is dedicated to demonstrating how you would use V2V Easy Converter to perform a vSphere to Hyper-V VM Conversion, Step by Step.
We, at 5Nine Software, are honored to have reviewed great reviews of our Virtual Firewall product by two distinguished Microsoft “gurus”. Leandro Carvalho a Microsoft MVP in Virtualization wrote a review with Dr Tom Shinder (who has written numerous Microsoft technology books) that discussed how Virtual Firewall fills a much-needed gap when creating a private cloud with Hyper-V technologies.
In Leandro’s article, A Malware and Firewall Protection Solution for the Private Cloud, he talks about how when companies of all sizes set out to create a private cloud, they struggle to find a solution that offers centralized firewall, antivirus, and antispyware. Private clouds must be able to fence off virtual machines (or groups of VMs) for different purposes – production, development, lab, DMZ, or multi-tenant scenarios.
Leandro’s article over on Microsoft TechNet covers how Virtual Firewall is the ideal solution as it provides the necessary features like:
Centralized firewall rule configuration
PowerShell Administration of the Virtual Firewall
Antivurus and Antispyware
Heartbeat service to ensure that rules are really being applied on each VM
Bandwidth throttling
For a quick demo of 5Nine Virtual Firewall, watch this video:
