From Provisioning to Data Disaster Recovery
No other virtualization platform vendor provides the breadth of VMware’s virtualization management solutions with production-proven technology. Only VMware offers a comprehensive solution for management of the virtual infrastructure over the entire lifecycle of the virtual machine. Best of all, VMware's management solutions integrate with your existing systems management tools so you can use what you already have and get a single point of control for physical and virtual machine management.
With VMware management solutions, you can
- Centrally manage thousands of virtual machines
- Quickly add new server resources
- Manage the entire software lifecycle with VMware solutions
- Automate disaster recovery
- Automate patching of virtual machines and hosts
- Use your existing systems management tools
- Get full support for all VMware vSphere features
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Manage the Entire Software Lifecycle with VMware IT Services Solutions
VMware provides a set of management and automation products that work together with VMware Infrastructure 3 and/or VMware vSphere to manage IT service delivery across the entire software lifecycle. The products include developing, staging, deploying, updating, and retiring IT services. Users of other virtualization platform vendors must rely on third-party products.
- Implement a consistent and automated process for requesting, approving, deploying, updating, and retiring virtual machines with VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager
- Streamline the rollout of new and updated IT services from pre-production to production with VMware vCenter Stage Manager
- Support development and QA teams with fast and simple self-service provisioning, including a library of multi-tier environments, while retaining control over infrastructure and policies with VMware vCenter Lab Manager
All three solutions integrate with VMware vCenter Server so you can monitor all VM activity in the virtual datacenter. No other virtualization platform vendor delivers this breadth of integrated virtualization management capabilities.
- Microsoft’s offering for development and QA teams, a self-service portal included with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), provides only a fraction of VMware vCenter Lab Manager capabilities and is poorly integrated with the rest of Microsoft Systems Center. To access, users must navigate from SCVMM to an entirely different web-based user interface. Even then, the Microsoft SCVMM portal supports only basic virtual machine creation and management, not the VMware vCenter Lab Manager features such as multi-machine configurations, virtual machine templates, user and group resource controls, graphic monitoring tools, and network fencing—all essential to support active software dev/test environments.
- Microsoft’s SCVMM library feature is very rudimentary compared with the features of the VMware vCenter Lab Manager configuration library and the media library.
- Neither Microsoft nor the Xen vendors (Citrix, Virtual Iron, Red Hat, Novell) offer any solutions comparable to VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager or VMware vCenter Stage Manager. Third-party products would be required to supplement what’s lacking in Microsoft and Xen core offerings.
| Features | VMware Infrastructure / vSphere with vCenter |
Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V with System Center |
Citrix XenServer with Essentials Enterprise |
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| Lab Management Automation Tool | Only basic self-provisioning with SCVMM Self-Service Portal |
Requires Essentials Platinum Edition |
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| Virtual Machine Life Cycle Automation Tool |  |
Requires Essentials Platinum Edition |
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| Automated Release Management Tool | |
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