VMware

Overview

Get superior backup, high availability, continuous data protection and disaster recovery across a virtualized IT environment by taking advantage of CA and VMware’s collaborative relationship and CA Advanced Systems Management (CA ASM) and CA Recovery Management. CA/VMware solutions 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

Qualified Software

  • Backup Compatibility Guide
    Lists backup software packages and versions compatible with VMware ESX that VMware or its partners have tested.

White Paper, Datasheets, Surveys

  • CA Solution Brief
    Working with VMware, CA’s business service assurance, business driven automation and cloud management solutions deliver IT services in real-time providing IT executives with a solid, well-managed heterogeneous platform offering end-to-end visibility and a single point of control.
  • ITPI Virtualization Study
    Recommendations in this research report are based on a post-implementation analysis of data from 323 IT organizations. The study goal was to better understand the impact of virtualization on datacenter operating practices.
  • ITPI Virtualization Executive Snapshot
    This executive snapshot is a summary of the IT Process Institute server virtualization maturity study. Recommendations in the research report are based on a postimplementation analysis of data from 323 IT organizations. The study’s goal was to better understand the impact of virtualization on datacenter operating practices.
  • 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.

Integrated Management Solutions
VMware partners with CA 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

CA ASM r11.5

Operations

ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 ESXi v3.5, 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

CA Spectrum Automation Manager r11.5

Service Delivery

ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 ESXi v3.5, v4.0
  • Control complexity and automate processes in the data center to become more adaptive and agile
  • Manage change processes; ensure configuration compliance and dynamically provision servers (virtual or physical) and applications based on business need.

CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager r9.1

Operations

ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 ESXi v3.5, v4.0
  • Management solution for service mgmt, fault isolation and root cause analysis, and network configuration mgmt.  Focused on availability.

CA eHealth Performance Manager r6.1.1

Operations

ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 ESXi v3.5, v4.0
  • Network performance product that ensures the quality of service across entire network. Focused on performance.

CA Cohesion r5.0

Operations

ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 ESXi v3.5, v4.0
  • Simplifies application configuration mgmt, resolves problems due to change in configuration settings, eliminates compliance issues.

CA Recovery Management
CA ARCserve® Backup R12

Business Continuity

ESX 2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 and ESXi v3.5
  • Reduce Business Risk Makes DR possible when it would otherwise not be feasible

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 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.