VMware Virtualization Management

Overview:

VMware’s vCenter management platform provides a proven approach to managing the virtualized datacenter, allowing you to streamline IT management and reduce operating costs. It offers the most comprehensive platform for optimizing critical IT processes and workflows in datacenter. Tens of thousands of customers rely on VMware vCenter to manage their IT infrastructure.

The platform also grows with you, with options that provide the right level of management capabilities to support any management challenge, for companies of any size, structure or level of maturity.

Current VMware vCenter solutions include:

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vCenter AppSpeed
• VMware vCenter Chargeback
• VMware vCenter Lab Manager
• VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager
• VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• VMware vCenter CapacityIQ

All of our solutions integrate with VMware vCenter Server, the heart of VMware’s management platform. In 2009, VMware will continue to extend its management solutions in to new areas, including configuration, capacity and application performance management in the cloud infrastructure.

Simplified Management:

The cloud operating system provides a dramatically better approach to IT management. The dynamic nature of virtualization accelerates IT processes like never before, and frees you from the tyranny of dependency on different parts of the infrastructure. The resources in your infrastructure are aggregated so you can stop worrying about managing resources in silos. Existing management tools and processes don’t adequately address the new world of virtualization on their own.

A cloud operating system is characterized by hardware and location independent applications, service level contracts between the infrastructure and applications and a shared, dynamic infrastructure.

With VMware vSphere, the industry's first cloud operating system, virtualization management is built-in to the platform, providing IT with an opportunity to transform management, and deliver higher service levels to the business. The maturity and expansiveness of the platform drives IT management efficiency, and lowers operating expenses by streamlining operations. Building blocks like VMware VMotion and VMware DRS let you balance workloads on the fly in response to changing business conditions, while VMware High Availability and VMware Fault Tolerance protect critical workloads against unplanned server downtime.

VMware vCenter solutions let you meet service levels with ease and simplicity – availability and other services can be provisioned with a few clicks. With VMware vCenter, you can lower operating costs and realize greater productivity than you can with tools designed for physical management.

VMware vCenter solutions provide comprehensive management of applications and infrastructure in this flexible, fluid environment and integrate with leading systems management vendors for seamless, end to end datacenter management.

Simplified Applications Management

• VMware vCenter Lab Manager enables on-demand access to a library of multi-tier application configurations, reducing provisioning delays for application developers and testers, streamlining the release management process, and freeing IT for more strategic tasks
• VMware vCenter AppSpeed provides automated monitoring, and detection of performance issues for multi-tier virtualized applications, enabling faster troubleshooting and remediation

Unified Management:

The VMware vCenter platform – built on VMware vCenter Server – is the universal hub for virtualization management. Monitoring, provisioning, patching, migration, capacity management, disaster recovery, and many other critical functions can be managed from a single console for multiple application platforms. VMware’s partners also allow you extend VMware vCenter’s capability through integrated plug-ins.

VMware vCenter offers the most advanced virtualization management platform in the industry. With vCenter, you are able to focus on managing pooled infrastructure rather than individual components. vCenter is designed to aggregate networking, storage, memory and CPU resources and manage them as a collection of resources that can be allocated dynamically based on business needs.

VMware vCenter also protects your existing investments. You need to manage physical and virtual systems, and have existing solutions that provide critical systems management capabilities across the datacenter. VMware believes you need to flexibility to manage physical and virtual systems seamlessly with the best solutions for the job. VMware vCenter solutions integrate with your existing management tools for end-to-end physical and virtual management. VMware has partnered with industry-leading systems management vendors like BMC, CA, HP, and IBM/Tivoli to make sure you have certified solutions for broad datacenter management.