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Stratora v2.4.0 — Your whole infrastructure, one operational picture

· 3 min read
Stratora Team

Open a site in Stratora 2.4.0 and you see the whole location at once: 23 nodes across a mixed Hyper-V and VMware estate, the network topology, availability and alerts, the VMs and the services they run — one physical site, comprehended in about five seconds. That's the release in a sentence. Virtualization is no longer a separate tab you go check; it's part of the operational picture for the site it lives in.

Virtualization isn't an island​

Most monitoring tools treat hypervisors as their own world — a VMware console here, a Proxmox UI there, a separate dashboard you remember to open. Stratora 2.4.0 takes the opposite view: whatever a site runs, Stratora folds it in.

Discover a hypervisor through the normal add paths — network discovery, an IPAM subnet scan, or the setup wizard — and Stratora classifies it (VMware vSphere, vCenter, Proxmox VE, or Hyper-V), onboards it with the credential you already have on file, and brings its hosts, VMs, and datastores into the site it belongs to. Time-to-value is about 30 minutes, and a site that runs all three platforms simply shows all three.

  • Auto-generated dashboards appear when you add a hypervisor and are cleaned up when you remove it — per-platform and site-level views with VMs and their run-state, hosts, datastores (including thin-provisioning headroom), and vCPU and capacity rollups.
  • A vCenter management-plane view gives you the managed ESXi hosts, the VMs across them, and the datastores in one place — the inventory the way vCenter sees it, inside Stratora.
  • VM and host status use the same at-a-glance indicators as everything else in Stratora, so a stopped VM reads the same way a down switch does.
  • Network topology maps lay out cleanly and center on load, so a site's shape is legible the moment you open it.

Reliability and security, hardened​

New surface area is only worth adding if the foundation holds. Three changes in 2.4.0 make the platform you already trust a little more trustworthy:

  • Your alerts survive a monitoring blip. If a collector or metrics source goes briefly unreachable, capacity and health alerts are now preserved rather than cleared — you won't lose sight of a filling datastore or a degraded array because a collector blinked.
  • Escalations show everyone. On-call notifications now surface every intended recipient, including any that couldn't be reached — no silent gaps in who got paged.
  • Tighter credential handling on collector configuration.

Upgrading​

v2.4.0 is an in-place upgrade from v2.2.1. Your existing monitored infrastructure is preserved.

Bundled Components: Agent 2.4.0 (Windows) · Agent 2.4.0 (Linux) · Collector 2.4.0