Virtual Machine Manager
Unified management of physical and virtual machines
For IT professionals responsible for managing virtual infrastructures, System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008—a member of the System Centre family of system management products—provides a straightforward and cost-effective solution for unified management of physical and virtual machines, Performance and Resource Optimisation (PRO) for dynamic and responsive management of virtual infrastructure, consolidation of underutilised physical servers and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by leveraging the expertise and investments in Microsoft Windows Server technology.
Maximised Data Centre Resources: System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008 delivers end-to-end support for consolidating physical servers onto a virtual infrastructure; fast and reliable physical-to-virtual machine conversions; Intelligent Placement of virtual workloads on physical host servers that match workload requirements and a centralised console for resource management and optimisation.
Rapid Provisioning and Agility: System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM 2008) enables rapid deployment of virtual machines, centralised control of the ‘building blocks’ of the virtual data centre, and delegated self-provisioning by authorised end users. New in this version of VMM is Performance and Resource Optimisation (PRO), which can dynamically respond to failure scenarios or poorly configured components that are identified in hardware, operating systems, or applications.
Leverage Data Centre Expertise: System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008 utilises IT’s existing Windows expertise while minimising the need for extensive retraining of administrators and help desk personnel.
- Designed for virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server: designed to offer high performance, enhanced security, high availability, scalability and many other improvements. VMM takes full advantage of these foundational benefits through a powerful yet easy-to-use console that streamlines many of the tasks necessary to manage virtualized infrastructure.
- Support for Microsoft Virtual Server and VMware ESX: VMM now manages VMware ESX virtualized infrastructure in conjunction with the Virtual Centre product. Administrators running multiple virtualization platforms can rely on one tool to manage virtually everything.
- Live Migration allows your data centre to be dynamic: enables you to move virtual machines between Hyper-V hosts with no downtime, reducing the planned downtime associated with routine system maintenance. When Live Migration is coupled with VMM’s Performance Resource Optimization (PRO) feature, you can create a dynamic IT environment, automatically reallocating virtual machine workloads based on resource utilization and available capacity
- Hot-add and removal of storage: Hot-add and removal of storage reduces planned downtime associated with adding disk storage to your virtual infrastructure to accommodate increased storage requirements.
- Maximize data centre resources through consolidation: A typical physical server in the data centre operates at only 5 to 15 percent CPU capacity. VMM can assess and then consolidate suitable server workloads onto virtual machine host infrastructure thus freeing up physical resources for repurposing or hardware retirement.
- Support for Clustered Shared Volumes and third-party CFS: Cluster Shared Volumes enhances the virtual infrastructure by allowing multiple Hyper-V hosts to access multiple VMs on a single LUN simultaneously.
- Machine conversions are a snap!: Converting a physical machine to a virtual one can be a daunting undertaking—slow, problematic, and typically requiring you to halt the physical server. But thanks to the enhanced P2V conversion in VMM, P2V conversions will become routine.
- Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO: enables the dynamic management of virtual resources though Management Packs that are PRO enabled. Utilizing the deep monitoring capabilities of System Centre Operations Manager 2007, PRO enables administrators to establish remedial actions for VMM to execute if poor performance or pending hardware failures are identified in hardware, operating systems, or applications.
- Quick storage migration: Quick storage migration enables an administrator to move a virtual machine’s storage to a different LUN or even to a different host while the VM is running, both with a minimum of downtime.
- Windows PowerShell provides rich management and scripting environment: The entire VMM application is built on the command line and scripting environment, Windows PowerShell. This version of VMM adds additional PowerShell commandlets and “view script” controls, which allow administrators to exploit customizing or automating operations at an unprecedented level.
The Parative Footprint
We take pride in delivering outstanding solutions to our clients. And with over 30 years combined experience, we have designed and implemented solutions for over 140 clients.
With Parative you get 3 experts for the price of 1. Our principal consultants are certified PRINCE2 project managers, MCITP - enterprise administrators for Microsoft Active Directory, as well as leading experts in the field of migration.
Benefits
- Reduced costs with our accelerated implementation and migration solutions
- Access to experienced consultants who are specialists in their fields
- Transparent data consolidations, implementations and migrations for servers and end users
- Scalable and easy to implement solutions
- Increased customer satisfaction with faster responses to problems
- Reduced administrative overhead with reduced helpdesk calls
- Faster technology integration with our adapted testing environments
