Overview
CA and VMware have a collaborative relationship that has enabled CA to bring to market solutions like CA Advanced Systems Management (CA ASM) and CA Recovery Management for backup, high availability, continuous data protection and disaster recovery across a virtualized IT environment.
VMware is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. The world's largest companies use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands.
CA is considered by VMware customers as a critical solution provider for managing virtual environments. VMware customers look to CA to provide meaningful business value and extend their mission critical applications. We provide joint CA/VMware solutions that help customers meet the challenge of building, deploying, managing, and securing their complex environments.
For VMware platforms, CA ASM supports management of VMware VirtualCenter (2.x), VMware ESX (2.5.x, 3.0.x, 3.5.x) and VMware GSX (3.x).
CA has established basic guidelines for supporting Unicenter software in a VMware environment. View their Support Statement for VMWare.
Press Releases
- VMware with AMD, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Red Hat and Others to Forge Open Virtualization Standards
- VMware Receives Support from Leading Software Companies
Qualified Software
- Backup Compatibility Guide
Lists backup software packages and versions compatible with VMware ESX that VMware or its partners have tested.
White Paper
- Vmware and CA: Working Together
to Maximize Business Value of Your
IT Investments
VMware and CA have collaborated to develop integrated solutions that enable your organization to effectively deploy, optimize, manage and secure physical and virtual systems across the enterprise - VMware and CA: Making the Most of Virtualization
A key consideration for any server consolidation initiative is to ensure you are making the best use of resources and that critical applications running on virtual machines receive the right allocation of shared resources. This white paper discusses the challenges, opportunities, and benefits associated with virtualization.
VMware on CA.com
- CA Advanced Systems Management
CA ASM centrally manages virtual and clustering technologies from VMware, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Sun, and Veritas to name a few. CA ASM lets you visualize virtual resources as clearly as physical resources. Using a patent pending proprietary functionality called ‘Dynamic Resource Brokering’, CA ASM optimizes virtual machine resources, improves performance and server availability – in direct response to changing business conditions through intelligent policy-driven automation. All of which ensures service levels are met while better managing risks, capital investments and delivering operational efficiency. - CA ARCserve® Backup
Help ensure that you sustain an optimized, business-driven infrastructure by streamlining the management of virtual, physical and clustered server environments. CA ASM centralizes the management and dynamic resource allocation of complex virtual platforms and is the cornerstone of the CA Virtual Platform Management solution. - CA XOsoft™ High Availability
Add another level of data protection by providing automatic failover for continuous application availability with CA XOsoft High Availability. Because data is increasing more rapidly than ever — with evolving types of information requiring strong protection — a single loss could mean irreparable damage to your organization.