VMware tackles data centre virtualisation
Posted on February 27, 2008
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Ian Williams in Cannes, vnunet.com, Wednesday 27 February 2008 at
00:00:00
Automation is the next stage for the virtual data centre
VMware unveiled four virtual machine management products at its VMWorld
conference in Cannes designed to help manage increasingly complex data centres.
The new applications are built on the company’s existing virtualisation
platform, and aim to automate labour intensive, error-prone and slow manual
tasks. Virtual machines encapsulate applications and operating systems in
standardised, hardware-independent packages that can easily be changed, moved
and manipulated. This means that tedious manual tasks on a physical server can
be efficiently automated in a virtual environment. VMware’s new products build
on this principle and use virtual machines to automate the steps of the IT
service delivery and business continuity processes, eliminating repetitive
tasks and minimising errors. “Automation is the next stage for the virtual data
centre,” said Raghu Raghuram, vice president of products and solutions at
VMware. “The new products are designed to increase the productivity of IT
administrators by preventing virtual machine sprawl and enabling business users
to self-provision capacity on demand. “They will bring unprecedented levels of
resiliency to all software applications running in VMware virtual machines.”
VMware Lifecycle Manager addresses the needs of infrastructure administrators
and allows companies to implement a consistent and automated process for
requesting, approving, deploying, updating and retiring virtual machines.
VMware Lab Manager tackles the needs of development and QA engineers and the IT
teams that support them by providing fast and simple self-service provisioning
of multi-tier virtual machine based environments while enabling IT control over
policies. VMware Stage Manager helps IT and application administrators
responsible for rolling new and updated IT services into production by helping
to automate the pre-production stages including integration, testing, staging
and user acceptance testing. VMware Site Recovery Manager uses hardware and
operating-system independent mobile virtual machines to give IT managers
centralised management of recovery plans, automate the recovery process and
enable better testing of recovery plans. “Virtualisation enables IT
organisations to automate tasks across traditionally disparate IT silos, such
as application development, opening up a whole new world for management in
virtualised environments,” said Stephen Elliot, research director for
enterprise systems management software at IDC. VMware Lab Manager is available
now. VMware Lifecycle Manager, Stage Manager and Site Recovery Manager are
expected by the second quarter.
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