VMware

Overview

" BMC’s Business Service Management platform extends VMware vCenter™ products, helping our joint customers achieve new levels of IT simplicity, reliability and responsiveness... The combined solution enables IT organizations to deliver improved service levels on a dynamic, flexible and reliable infrastructure. "

— Kia Behnia, Chief Technology Officer, BMC Software

BMC Software and VMware enable business critical service virtualization by giving you control of the full lifecycle of virtualization in your datacenter – from planning to configuration to management.

BMC provides a comprehensive solution that unifies the management of physical and virtual environments to help customers control their IT infrastructure. BMC and VMware solutions reduce costs, increase availability and assure continuous compliance and drive new levels of agility and automation for application deployment and delivery.

Learn more about VMware virtualization management.

Integrated Management Solutions

VMware partners with BMC to deliver complete enterprise management solutions to meet the physical and virtual management needs of our customers. 

The table below lists currently available products and solutions and highlights their benefits.

Product Management Capability Works with Customer Benefits
BMC Performance Manager for Virtual Servers v2.8 Operations ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x,  v3.5, v4.0
ESXi v3.5 and v4.0
  • Proactively manage the health and performance of both virtual and physical distributed computing environments
  • Centralized monitoring and management of vSphere, as well as the applications/services that vSphere supports
BMC Capacity Management Essentials v1.1 Operations ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 ESXi v3.5
  • Rapidly identifies virtualization candidates for consolidation
  • Automatically identifies underutilized and over utilized IT resources
BMC Performance Assurance for Virtual Servers v7.4.10 Operations ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 ESXi v3.5
  • Facilitates the planning and execution of consolidation activities and manages virtual server performance and capacity after consolidation
BMC Atrium Discovery & Dependency Mapping v7.6 Change & Configuration ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 ESXi v3.5
  • Dynamically discover and visualize virtual and physical infrastructures and the business services they deliver
BMC Bladelogic Operations Manager v7.5 Change & Configuration ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5
ESXi v3.5
  • Bring new virtual servers and applications on-line in hours by orchestrating the initial provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes across departments/silos.
  • Automatically creates, approves, verifies and closes corresponding change requests related to virtual images enabling the same auditable tracking and change control functions that enterprises typically require for the management of physical computers
BMC Atrium Orchestrator v7.5 Service Delivery ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 ESXi v3.5
  • Automate common virtual and physical tasks from self-service request and deployment of VMs for users to integration with change mgmt processes and applications
BMC ProactiveNet v7.7   ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 ESXi v3.5
  • A real-time analytics solution that detects performance abnormalities in the IT environment, delivers early warning of degrading performance, and reduces time from issue detection to resolution.

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