Veeam has announced the beta for version 8 of their Veeam Management Pack for System Center.

v8 is available for download here.

Here is a brief rundown of the new features in addition to overall tuning and general improvements :

Sphere 6.0 support – pretty much self explanatory

The Morning Coffee report – Veeam MP’s new Infrastructure Summary report provides a single overview report to check the status of the entire environment.

Hybrid Cloud Capacity Planning report  – The report now offers updated analytics with improved logic and accuracy.

Checkpoint/vSphere snapshot tracking – Now includes a heatmap to assist in quickly identifying storage-related performance issues across the entire virtual environment

Support for SMB shares for Hyper-V – SMB shares can now be seen in the Storage Topology view, with drill-down to the virtual machine (VM) level.

For more information check out Veeams site.