Key Benefits of VMware Stage Manager
Accelerate Change Requests to Production Systems
Traditionally, application change requests are time-consuming and error prone. Application owners must test multiple scenarios and hand-hold the application through each stage of pre-production to ensure success. It can take weeks or months to move a significant update into production. Building on VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware Stage Manager utilizes resource pools created in VMware VirtualCenter. Virtual machines associated with an IT service use designated resource pools as they transition through the lifecycle. At any time, environments can be captured and archived for auditing purposes. With VMware Stage Manager, application owners and IT administrators can easily clone virtual machines and automate the movement of applications through pre-production, all through an intuitive user interface.
Maintain Consistent Configurations Throughout the IT Service Lifecycle
Application owners often struggle with image configuration drift, where the pre-production assets do not match the production systems. Even within a single stage, shadow copies of an IT workload can drift out of configuration with each other, slowing down the IT lifecycle process. With Stage Manager, application owners can easily ensure that all environments are exact replicas, mitigating the risk of errors and potential downtime.
Visualize the Entire IT Service Transition Lifecycle
All to frequently, application owners have little or no visibility in to the status of IT Services as they move through pre-production and in to production. Manual requests and check-ins are time-consuming and sometimes inaccurate. Stage Manager allows application owners to visualize the entire IT service transition lifecycle through a unified view of all IT services, stages, and related resources.
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