- efficieny
- speed of change
and opposite
- control
- manageablility
Virtualization and Automation helps.
Virtualization both introduces new elements to be managed as well as
The overall sol'n should be SLA driven:
- availability
- security
- performance
It should be utility like.
It consists of the VDC- OS and the management layer.
The VDC-OS has already built-in management like VMotion and DRS that ease the amount of mngmt humans have to do.
vCenter becomes the centralized management platform of the virtual dayaventer. Aside frm operational management tasks it also needs to provide the means to track how we're doing against SLA.
On the other hand the user becomes enabled.
Lab manager will serve as the means for this in the future.
Chargeback will also be provide supporting various models.
Even for those not ready to cross charge internally it may serve as a way to create awareness of the cost of usage of resources.
Life Cycle manager is key to automate provisioning and tracking changes throughout a VM's life right through to decommissioning.
This product tracks configs of servers.
For capacity management there will be Capacity IQ
It can predict when you'll run out of capacity and it identifies overprovisioned VM's.
In order to scale-out you can use vCenter linked mode. In case you run out of max number of supported objects a vCenter can manage.
Orchestrator allows you to apply actions across a large scale of machines automatically using a workflow process. For instance to apply a changes across a large number of VM's
With Appspeed we can garantee SLA's at the app level. Do assured mogrations and do root cause analysis for performance issues.
VMware aims to work with partners to integrate with the big 4 management platforms.
There are integrations, examples
- BMC remedy and life cycle manager
- CA data center manager (for apps) and stage manager
PSO have operational readiness assessments to help achieve the above.
