Vmware Virtualcenter Centralized Management, Automation and Optimization for IT Infrastructure

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VMware VirtualCenter Centralized management, automation and optimization for IT infrastructure

at a glance How Is VMware VirtualCenter Used in the Enterprise?

VMware® VirtualCenter delivers centralized manage- VirtualCenter delivers centralized management, operational auto- ment, operational automation, resource optimization and mation, resource optimization and high availability to IT environ- high availability to IT environments. Virtualization-based ments. distributed services equip the data center with unprec- • Centralized management capabilities allow IT organizations edented levels of responsiveness, serviceability, efficiency to organize, monitor, and configure the entire IT environment and reliability. VirtualCenter delivers the highest levels of through a single interface resulting in lower operating costs. simplicity, efficiency, security and reliability required to manage virtualized IT environment of any size. • Rapid provisioning with deployment wizard and virtual machine templates reduces the time and effort for creating and deploying b e n E f i t s virtual machines to a few mouse clicks. • Align available resources with pre-defined business • Performance monitoring capabilities, including utilization priorities while streamlining labor and resource inten- graphs of CPU, memory, Disk I/O, and Network I/O provide the sive operations using VMware DRS. detail needed to analyze the performance of physical servers, and • Migrate live virtual machines and conduct non-disrup- the virtual machines they are running. tive maintenance of IT environments using VMotion™. • Operational automation through task scheduling and alerting • Enable cost-effective application availability indepen- improves responsiveness to business needs and prioritizes actions dent of hardware and operating systems using VMware needing the most urgent attention. HA. • Secure access control, robust permissions mechanisms, and integration with Microsoft® Active Directory guarantee authorized access to the environment and its virtual machines. Responsibili- ties can be delegated to tiers of system administrators.

VirtualCenter Management Server • Resource optimization through performance monitoring, multi- server resource pools, and dynamic workload balancing delivers

Manage the highest virtual machine to physical server ratio while improv- ing service levels to software applications. Automated data center-

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ESX Server ESX Server ESX Server operating system, and software applications. • Migration of live virtual machines across entirely separate physical servers with VMware VMotion makes the maintenance of IT environments non-disruptive. • High availability provided by VMware HA enables broad-based, cost-effective application failover independent of hardware and Physical Servers operating systems.

VMware VirtualCenter provides a central point of control for managing, monitoring, • Integration with third party systems management products provisioning and migrating virtual machines. through Web services APIs provided by the VMware Infrastructure SDK. VMWARE VIRTUALCENTER PRODUCT DATASHEET

KEY FEATURES

How Does VMware VirtualCenter • Performance and scalability - New – Virtual Infrastructure Web Work? » New - Large-scale management. Man- access. Manage virtual machines and age hundreds of servers and thousands access virtual machine graphical con- VirtualCenter is composed of five main com- of virtual machines. VirtualCenter 2 starts soles without installing a client ponents: up faster, is more responsive and is de- - ESX Server configuration. Centralize • VirtualCenter Management Server is signed from the ground up to handle the management and configuration of all the central control node for configuring, largest IT environments. ESX Servers in VirtualCenter. provisioning and managing virtualized IT • Interoperability - New – Enhanced inventory model. environments. The Management Server Manage the complete inventory of runs as a service on Microsoft® Windows » New -Support for ESX Server 3. virtual machines, resource pools and 2000, Microsoft® Windows XP Professional VirtualCenter 2 adds tested and certified physical servers with greater visibility and Microsoft® Windows Server 2003. support for management of ESX Server 3. into object relationships. The new in- • VirtualCenter Database is used to » New – Support for VMware Server. ventory model provides the flexibility store persistent information about the VirtualCenter 1.4 adds tested and certi- to organize objects into folders and physical servers, resource pools and virtual fied support for management of the free create two separate hierarchical views. machines managed by the VirtualCenter VMware Server. - New – Enhanced object model. Man- Management Server. The database resides • Management age virtualized IT environment with a on standard versions of Oracle, Microsoft® consistent object model covering all SQL Server, or Microsoft® MSDE. » Virtual machine provisioning and migration. entities such as virtual machines, physi- • Virtual Infrastructure Client allows cal servers, and resource pools. administrators and users to connect - Deployment wizard. Create new vir- - New – Interactive topology maps. remotely to the VirtualCenter Management tual machines with a user friendly wiz- Visualize the relationships between Server or individual ESX Servers from any ard. Customize network identities and physical servers, virtual machines, Windows PC. operating system parameters to make new instances unique. networks and storage. Topology maps • VirtualCenter Agent connects VMware allow to easily verify correct configura- ESX Server with the VirtualCenter Manage- - New – Re-designed virtual machine tion for distributed services such as ment Server. templates. Save virtual machines as VMotion, VMware DRS and VMware HA. templates that can be instantiated in • Virtual Infrastructure Web access allows minutes. Minimize errors and down- - New – Centralized licensing. Man- virtual machine management and access time by establishing configuration age all VMware software licenses with to virtual machine graphical consoles standards for virtual machines. Re-de- an embedded FlexNet licensing server without installing a client. signed templates support easy virtual and a single license file. The following add-on products to machine patching and updating. Tem- » System monitoring. Continuously moni- VirtualCenter deliver resource optimization plates are stored on shared storage for tor physical servers and virtual machine and high availability functionality. greater reliability. availability and utilization from a single • VMware DRS dynamically allocates and - Virtual machine cloning. Copy exist- interface. balances computing capacity across col- ing virtual machines when a new in- - Alerts and notifications. Set green, lections of hardware resources aggregated stance of a server is needed yellow and red level alarms for CPU, into unified resource pools. - Cold migration of virtual machines. memory and heartbeat states to man- • VMware VMotion migrates live virtual Move a powered off virtual machine age and pre-empt problems. Alarm machines between physical servers from one physical server to another by triggers generate automated notifica- without disruption to end users dragging and dropping the virtual ma- tions and alerts. Schedule automatic chine icon. execution of system management • VMware HA provides easy to use, cost tasks such as sending SNMP traps, effective high availability for applications - Live migration of virtual machines. sending emails, running management running in virtual machines. Migrate running virtual machines from scripts, suspending, powering off, and one physical server to another with resetting virtual machines. Key Features of VMware VirtualCenter VMware VMotion. VirtualCenter delivers centralized manage- - New – Enhanced performance » Server and virtual machine manage- graphs. Monitor and analyze virtual ment, resource optimization, operational ment automation and security to virtualized IT machines, resource pools and server environments. These capabilities increase - New - Virtual Infrastructure Client. utilization and availability with detailed the efficiency, flexibility, and robustness of IT Manage ESX Servers, virtual machines, performance graphs. Performance environments: and VirtualCenter Server with a com- metrics can be defined with several mon user interface. VMWARE VIRTUALCENTER PRODUCT DATASHEET

KEY FEATURES

levels of granularity and can be viewed » New – Custom roles and permissions. in real time, or across a specified time Enhance security and flexibility with user- interval. defined roles. VirtualCenter users with - Reports. Export VirtualCenter data to appropriate privileges can create custom HTML and Excel formats for integration roles such as night shift operator or with other reporting tools and offline backup administrator. Restrict access to analysis. the entire inventory of virtual machines, resource pools and servers by assigning • New – Integration with third party users to these custom roles. systems management products through Web services APIs provided by the VMware » New – Audit trails. Maintain a record of Infrastructure SDK. significant configuration changes and the administrator who initiated them. • Distributed resource optimization Export reports for event tracking. » Resource management for virtual ma- » New – Session management. Discover chines. Allocate processor and memory and if necessary terminate VirtualCenter resources to virtual machines running on user sessions. the same physical servers. Establish mini- mum, maximum, and proportional resource shares for CPU, memory, disk and How Can I Purchase VMware network bandwidth. Modify allocations VirtualCenter? while virtual machines are running. En- • The VirtualCenter Agent is included in all able applications to dynamically acquire editions of VMware Infrastructure more resources to accommodate peak performance • The VirtualCenter add-on products VMware VMotion, VMware HA, and VMware DRS » New - Dynamic allocation of resources. are included in VMware Infrastructure 3 VMware DRS continuously monitors Enterprise. VMware VMotion, VMware DRS, utilization across resource pools and and VMware HA can also be purchased as intelligently allocates available resources separately licensed products with VMware among virtual machines based on pre- Infrastructure 3 and Standard VMware defined rules that reflect business needs Infrastructure 3 Starter. and changing priorities. The result is a self-managing, highly optimized and ef- • VirtualCenter Management Server is a ficient IT environment with built-in load separately licensed product. balancing • High Availability Product Specifications and System » New - Automatic restart of virtual ma- Requirements chines with VMware HA. Provide an easy For detailed product specifications and to use and cost-effective failover solution. system requirements refer to the VMware • Security Infrastructure Basic System Administration Guide located at http://www.vmware.com/ » Fine-grained access control. Secure the support/pubs/vi_pubs.html. environment with configurable, tiered group definitions and fine-grained permissions. » Integration with Microsoft® Active Di- rectory. Base access controls on existing Microsoft® Active Directory authentica- tion mechanisms.

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