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VMware's virtual infrastructure architecture enables business to lower IT cost through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. |
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Managing a virtual infrastructure enables IT to connect resources to business needs quickly. With virtual infrastructure, IT organizations can provision new services and change the amount of resources dedicated to a software service. Your data center can be treated as a single pool of processing, storage and networking power.
VMware VirtualCenter is virtual infrastructure management software that centrally manages an enterprise's virtual machines as a single, logical pool of resources. With VirtualCenter, an administrator can manage thousands of Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Linux and Netware servers from a single point of control. The VirtualCenter interface provides a powerful overview of all the virtual resources in a data center. From the VirtualCenter interface, administrators can perform:
- Continuous workload consolidation: Monitor and optimize the utilization of data center resources to minimize unused capacity while maintaining application service levels, by adjusting the resources dedicated to each software service.
- Instant provisioning: Reduce server-provisioning time from weeks to tens of seconds, allowing administrators to respond immediately to requests for IT services. Using server templates, administrators can ensure that new servers are fully consistent with current build and security policies.
- Zero-downtime maintenance: Safeguard business continuity 24/7, with no service interruptions for hardware maintenance, deployment, or migration. Use VMotion to move running operating systems and their applications off a system that needs maintenance, and then transfer them back when maintenance is complete.
Think about the questions below. If you can answer Yes to any of these questions, VirtualCenter can deliver significant benefits to your organization:
- Would you benefit from 8 to 5 system maintenance without having to notify users?
- Do you need to quickly identify performance issues within your IT infrastructure and respond within minutes?
- Do you have to manage dozens of virtual machines?
- Do you need to streamline the process of provisioning new compute and application resources?
- Do you over-provision in order to deliver SLA response times during spikes in demand?
- Do you need to increase capacity while reducing operational and IT cost?
