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Key New Features of VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite

  • Intelligent Operations Groups provide operational insights into health, risk and efficiency of resources by application, line of business, production workload, configuration types, and other relationship type. Group memberships are updated to reflect changes in the environment dynamically to display accurate information in real-time, enabling you to better align with business teams and operations.
  • Flexible Group Policies let you define specific health, risk and capacity thresholds, alert types and notifications, business hours and many other configuration settings at a group level to prioritize operational activities for business critical applications, production workloads or business units.
  • Application-level monitoring of business critical applications (Microsoft SQL, Exchange, Oracle DB), Windows and Linux operations systems and physical hardware resources (CPU, memory, network, disk) using vFabric Hyperic is now included with the vCenter Operations suite. These monitoring capabilities combined with patented analytics extend operational visibility and proactive management capabilities across infrastructure and applications.
  • Operational compliance views enable you to proactively enforce configuration standards, detect configuration drift early and automatically remediate possible violations of IT policies, security hardening guidelines and regulatory requirements. These views are tightly integrated with the operations dashboards for comprehensive visibility into health, risk and efficiency of infrastructure and applications.
  • Actionable recommendations provide insights and guidance to help you better understand and resolve potential performance issues, capacity shortfalls and compliance risk based on VMware best practices.
  • Automated workflow triggers let you associate workflows created in vCenter Orchestrator with vCenter Operations alerts. For example, these workflows can automatically delete old VM snapshots when available capacity falls below a critical threshold or add resources when workload demands are rising above normal. Automated workflows help reduce Mean time to incident (MTTI) and mean time to resolution (MTTR).
 

Gain Comprehensive Visibility

Powerful visualization of performance, capacity and configuration issues and risks enable visibility across virtual, physical and hybrid cloud infrastructure and applications.

  • vCenter Operations Manager provides pre-built and configurable dashboards for real-time performance, capacity and configuration management.
  • Performance data is abstracted to health, risk and efficiency measures that allow IT to efficiently identify building performance problems with less effort.
  • Capacity analytics identify over-provisioned resources so they can be right-sized for most efficient use of virtualized resources. "What If" scenarios eliminate the need for spreadsheets, scripts and rules of thumb.
  • Out of the box templates ensure continuous compliance with security best practices, hardening guidelines and regulatory requirements.
  • Out of the box templates ensure continuous compliance with security best practices, hardening guidelines and regulatory requirements.
  • Designed for vSphere and built for Cloud, vCenter Operations is the best solution for managing dynamic VMware environments. Hooks into third party monitoring tools allow IT to leverage existing investments.
 

Eliminate Manual Processes with Intelligent Automation

Patented analytics provide actionable intelligence across the stack to automate manual processes for maximum efficiency and agility.

  • Infrastructure and operations analytics eliminate time-consuming problem resolution processes through automated root cause analysis.
  • Automated correlation of health, performance and change events at the infrastructure and guest OS-level help pinpoint lingering performance problems.
  • Automated rollback and remediation of configuration changes allow administrators to enforce IT policies.
  • Flexible capacity and cost reporting capabilities provide deep visibility into resource consumption trends.
  • Automated provisioning and configuration analysis detects unwanted changes and helps IT maintain continuous compliance with operational best practices and regulatory requirements.
 

Proactively Manage Operations

An integrated approach to automating operations allows IT to be more proactive and ensure optimal performance in the face of growing service level expectations and accelerating change.

  • Self-learning performance analytics and dynamic thresholds adapt to the environment to simplify operations management and eliminate false alerts.
  • Integrated smart alerts for health, performance and capacity degradation identify building performance problems before they affect end users.
  • Advanced capacity analytics allow administrators to optimize VM density and identify capacity shortfalls before they affect end users.
  • Real-time, integrated dashboards of performance, capacity and configuration change events enable a proactive management approach and help ensure SLAs are met.
  • Policy-based configuration management assures compliance across all aspects of the datacenter infrastructure, virtual or physical.

 

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