(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Virtualization solutions provider VMware (www.vmware.com) has expanded its existing relationship with Hewlett-Packard (www.hp.com) to jointly develop management software solutions which manage both physical and virtual data center resources.
According to VMware’s announcement late last week, HP and VMware intend to deliver integrated physical and virtual datacenter management and automation software solutions. The partnership will bring greater management capabilities to VMware’s virtual data center operating system (or VDC-OS) concept, which will gain from the inclusion of various technologies within HP’s Business Technology Optimization software and VMware’s vCenter Lab Manager.
“Through an expanded co-development relationship with HP we would further strengthen the VDC-OS platform as the best place to run all enterprise applications,” VMware server division vice president and general manager Raghu Raghuram. “By integrating HP BTO technologies for application management with VMware vCenter and combining it with the performance, reliability and security of the VMware platform, we would be able to offer our joint customers an ideal foundation for their next-generation datacenters.”
Expanding on a partnership formed earlier this year between the two countries to introduce integrated software for automating the management of heterogeneous environments, the new agreement states that VMware will work with HP to integrate HP’s application discovery technologies with vCenter Lab Manager to deliver infrastructure visibility across physical and virtual environments. VMware’s vCenter Lab Manager includes a library of pre-configured virtualized application environments.
VMware’s contribution to the relationship, vCenter Lab Manager helps users manage physical and virtual resources.Following this integration, according to VMware’s announcement, the two companies hope to jointly develop and bring to market enhanced virtualization management offerings to better manage VDC-OS environments, which will help businesses efficiently pool all types of hardware resources, such as servers, storage devices and networks, into an “internal enterprise cloud,” which acts like a single organism.
HP software products division vice president and general manager Robin Purohit said in a statement, “By working closely with VMware and taking our joint solutions to market, we would bring the application and infrastructure management capabilities of HP BTO software to thousands of customers who are building out VDC-OS environments on the VMware platform.”
Highly elastic, self-managing and self-healing, VMware’s VDC-OS, first announced in September would enables businesses large and small to benefit from the flexibility and efficiency of a “lights-out” data center, which requires minimal IT staff. VMware said that a VDC-OS can also safely and automatically migrate workloads to external clouds if added compute capacity is needed.
