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VMware and CA: Making the Most of Virtualization

White Paper Published By: CA Service Assurance

IT organizations are challenged to meet today’s constantly changing business needs. This need for flexibility has resulted in the rapid adoption of server virtualization, making enterprise infrastructures more responsive, while introducing management considerations unique to virtualization. Unlike physically bounded infrastructures, the entities in virtualized environments are not visually apparent or recognized by most traditional management tools.



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CA Service Assurance
Published:  Feb 26, 2008
Type:  White Paper
Length:  13 pages

TECHNOLOGY BRIEF: CA UNICENTERŽ ADVANCED SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND VMWAREŽ VIRTUALCENTER
VMware and CA: Making the Most
of VirtualizationTable of Contents
Executive Summary
SECTION 1: CHALLENGE 2Discovery - Visualization - Optimization Discovery and Visualization ChallengesOptimization Challenges
SECTION 2: OPPORTUNITY 3CA and VMware: Collaborating for the CustomerTechnology Discussion: Virtualization and ClustersOpportunities for VMware/CA EnvironmentsDiscovery and Visualization OpportunitiesOptimization Opportunities
SECTION 3: BENEFITS 9Real Collaboration: VMware and CA
SECTION 4: NEXT STEPS 10
SECTION 5: ABOUT VMWARE 10
ABOUT CA Back Cover
Copyright Š 2007 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. This document is for your informational purposes only. To the extent permitted by applicable law, CA provides this document "As Is" without warranty of any kind, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. In no event will CA beliable for any loss or damage, direct or indirect, from the use of this document including, without limitation, lost profits, business interruption, goodwill or lost data, even if CA is expressly advised of such damages.Executive Summary
Challenge
IT organizations are challenged to meet today's constantly changing business needs. Thisneed for flexibility has resulted in the rapid adoption of server virtualization, making enterpriseinfrastructures more responsive, while introducing management considerations unique tovirtualization. Unlike physically bounded infrastructures, the entities in virtualized environ-ments are not visually apparent or recognized by most traditional management tools.Nevertheless, you need to know what resources you have and if you are using thoseresources to their fullest capacity. A key consideration for any server consolidation initiativeis to ensure you are making the best use of resources and that critical applications runningon virtual machines receive the right allocation of shared resources. In order to meet servicelevel agreements you need to ensure the services you provide match internal and externalcustomer expectations. These needs call for a comprehensive management solution.
Opportunity
Virtualization enables IT organizations to increase server utilization dramatically - oftenreaching 80%. With traditional server utilization often running at 10% or less, it's notsurprising that virtual environments are rapidly expanding.
VMware, Inc. is a leader in the x86 virtualization market and represents a significantportion of the x86 virtualized environments. VMware provides the capability to managethem through its VirtualCenter software. CA provides superior management services forvirtualized environments through its CA UnicenterŽ Advanced Systems Management (CAUnicenter ASM) software. The combination of VMware VirtualCenter and CA UnicenterASM gives you the greatest level of visibility and control into your virtualized and clusteredenvironments. The two products are complementary, giving you the capability to optimizeyour virtual server environments for the highest availability.
Benefits
By using a combination of VirtualCenter and CA Unicenter ASM you can visualize andmanage logical entities as easily and as well as physical entities, enabling you to:. Dynamically map virtual system resources to business processes. Ensure that critical systems are not deprived of required resources. Realize greater value from the virtualized environment. Manage common problems, such as virtual sprawl. Reduce IT costs, by ensuring that current IT investments are fully optimized. Treat your data center as a single pool of processing, storage and networking power
TECHNOLOGY BRIEF: CA UNICENTERŽ ADVANCED SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND VMWAREŽ VIRTUALCENTER 1SECTION 1: CHALLENGE Discovery - Visualization - OptimizationAs you start moving to large scale virtual environments with hundreds or thousands of virtualservers, you need to manage it well. Management of a virtual environment presents uniquechallenges; many organizations do not thoroughly anticipate the differences in managing avirtual environment from a purely physical environment. Many of your existing managementtools may, in fact, only be a... [download for more]

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