Key Benefits of Lifecycle Manager
With Lifecycle Manager, administrators can standardize IT services, streamline request and approval, track and control virtual machines and decommission them when they’re ready for retirement.
Standardize IT Services
Using Lifecycle Manager, administrators can create a catalog of IT services that represent groups of virtual machine configurations. Administrators can also define deployment policies for the different types of IT services. This feature enables better control over what type of resources are deployed into the IT environment.
Associate Chargeback Metrics
Lifecycle Manager enables IT to associate chargeback metrics to specific virtual machine deployments and resource pools. These chargeback metrics can be assigned to specific business groups, or tie in to existing financial systems.
Streamline Request and Approval
Lifecycle Manager establishes a consistent and scalable mechanism to route and approve all requests for virtual machines, and ensure policy compliance. You simply log in, make a request for a virtual machine and enter information to help Lifecycle Manager select the specific resources that best support your request. Requests are routed to the Approver, and if the request is approved, a virtual machine is deployed automatically, based on the user-defined criteria and the way in which IT has mapped those criteria to existing computing resources.
Track and Control Virtual Machines
Tracking who owns virtual machines in a virtual environment or keeping record of when they were created, deployed or de-commissioned can be challenging. Lifecycle Manager tracks virtual machine deployments with a Web-based request log, so you can keep an accurate record of when the requests are made, approved or denied, when the machine was deployed and how long it has been in operation.
Decommission Virtual Machines
Use Lifecycle Manager to initiate the decommission process. Lifecycle Manager provides better resource utilization by ensuring resources come back into the resource pool for future use. Lifecycle manager archives the virtual machine image prior to decommissioning so it can be stored at low cost for future use.