VMware

Accelerate the Business Value of Your VMware Virtualization Investments with Visibility, Control and Automation.

CA Technologies and VMware have collaborated to deliver the people, products and processes that organizations need on their journey to mass virtualization and cloud computing. Our joint vision of enabling customers to more rapidly plan, provision, secure and optimize services is reflected in a lifecycle of virtualization value accelerators―each designed to address specific operational challenges, prevent your virtualization projects from stalling, and address the increasing business need for fast and flexible service delivery.

  • People – Established virtualization and cloud computing consulting services, enabling customers to move quickly, pragmatically and successfully from virtualization to cloud.
  • Products – Integrated solutions covering aspects of management across the virtualization journey, including: server consolidation and migration; service optimization; service automation and orchestration; and cloud service delivery.
  • Processes – Products and services to establish best practices in critical areas such as virtualization capacity planning and optimization, configuration management, service catalog and service portfolio management.

CA Technologies has established basic guidelines for supporting Unicenter software in a VMware environment.
View the CA Technologies Support Statement for VMWare.

Solutions

VMware partners with CA Technologies 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.

Virtualization Accelerator Solution Customer Benefits
Server Consolidation
Resource planning and rapid migration.
  • CA Hyperformix Capacity Manager
  • CA Server Automation
  • CA ARCserve Backup; CA ARCserve D2D
  • Accurately identify opportunities for consolidation and virtualization. Understand how applications will behave after virtualization to plan and time cap-ex budgets.
  • Rapidly provision applications and services to VMware, gaining more immediate cost savings and operational efficiencies.
  • Provide business with comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity guarantees.
Infrastructure Optimization
Deliver the control needed to meet and exceed business service levels .
  • CA Configuration Automation
  • CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager
  • CA eHealth Performance Manager
  • CA Virtual Assurance
  • CA Virtual Privilege Manager
  • Detect changes against established configurations to prevent unplanned outages and meet compliance objectives.
  • Rapidly detect problem root cause across physical and virtualized services and avoid costly service outages.
  • Detect anomalies in real-time and continuously optimize service performance levels in line with business requirements.
  • Centralize management of physical and virtualized services to reduce operational costs.
  • Control access from privileged users across your VMware platform to meet compliance requirements and prevent security breaches.
Automation and Orchestration
Dynamic resource management with end-to-end service provisioning.
  • CA Virtual Automation
  • CA Process Automation
  • CA Service Operations Manager
  • Self-service and automated virtual server provisioning using an integrated self service reservation system.
  • Orchestrate end-to-end management processes for more agile and responsive service delivery.
  • Single ‘pane-of-glass’ to quickly determine service quality and risk issues and prioritize according to business impact.
IT as a Service
Dynamic cloud services, continuously optimized for cost, quality and value.
  • CA Service Catalog and Accounting
  • CA Oblicore Guarantee
  • Define, publish and measure services in business terms, provide financial insight and automate the delivery of services.
  • Automate, activate and accelerate the management, reporting on and monitoring of your service level agreements and service delivery.

VMware on CA.com

  • CA Virtualization Management
    CA Technologies solutions can provision, control, assure, secure and optimize your VMware virtual environments. CA Technologies can help you better understand the costs and ROI potential to justify IT investments as you go. Robust management, along with advanced automation lets you focus on opportunities, not issues. We make enterprise-wide virtualization not only possible, but imperative.
  • CA ARCserve Solution Family
    VMware and CA Technologies partner to deliver high availability and risk-resistance for critical and near-critical information and applications, while lowering management and operational costs and complexity.