(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Virtualization solutions provider VMware (www.vmware.com) has unveiled its new vCenter product family, a set of policy-based, service-driven management solutions that provide improved business agility, as well as a beta version of VMware Go, a web-based service that makes it easier for first time customers to get started with virtualization.
According to VMware’s Monday announcements at its VMworld conference in San Francisco, the VMware vCenter builds on the innate capabilities of VMware’s vSphere 4 virtualization platform, offering simplified management and lower operating costs, as well as more dynamic and flexible IT services, enabling corporate IT departments to operate more efficiently as an internal service provider.
“VMware is uniquely positioned to evolve the way IT manages the datacenter, with the ability to inject policy across all layers of the stack to enable new levels of automation and efficiency,” VMware server division vice president and general manager Raghu Raghuram said in a statement. “With the VMware vCenter family of products, customers will be able to dramatically simplify infrastructure management, service delivery, and application management eliminating tedious manual tasks, achieving greater visibility into data center operations, and ultimately guaranteeing service levels through set-and-forget policy-based control.”
vCenter automates tedious day-to-day tasks such as provisioning, monitoring and capacity, change, incident, and performance management based on pre-defined policies designed to drive desired business outcomes.
VMware vCenter features infrastructure management applications including: AppSpeed, which provides visibility, service level reporting and proactive performance management for multi-tier applications; CapacityIQ, which models the effect of capacity changes, forecasting shortfalls and proactively reclaiming excess capacity to run virtual machines, resource pools, and entire data centers; ConfigControl, which maintains visibility and compliance standards in a dynamic virtual environment; and Site Recovery Manager, which automates the recovery process and simplifies management of disaster recovery plans.
It also includes service delivery management applications: Lifecycle Manager, which implements an automated process for managing the lifecycle of virtual machines; Chargeback, which provides business-wide accountability by understanding, allocating and reporting costs associated with the use of virtual infrastructure; Lab Manager, which simplifies development, QA and pre-production environments and gives administrators control over policies.
Also at VMworld, VMware debuted VMware Go, a free, web-based service that quickly sets up VMware’s ESXi hypervisor for small and medium sized businesses, allowing them to reduce their overhead and simplify their business operations by running multiple operating systems and applications on a single server without spending as much time and money to get started.
VMware emerging products and markets vice president Dan Chu said VMware Go is the innovation in VMware’s ongoing commitment to helping SMB customers run more agile, profitable, and resilient applications. “Nearly every SMB stands to benefit tremendously from virtualization,” Chu said in a statement. “VMware Go will simplify virtualization for SMBs to a few easy online steps and was designed with SMBs in mind. We want SMBs who may be sitting on the fence to realize all the benefits of virtualization without burdening their limited IT resources.”
Developed in partnership with Shavlik Technologies, a member of VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner Program, VMware Go is available as a beta offering, and is expected to become generally available as a free service in 2010.
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