HP and VMware integrate virtual management technologies | | 2008-06-19 | | Responding to demand for greater virtual environment management tools, HP have announced a joint research and development project with leading virtualization management specialists VMware.
The collaboration will allow HP to implement its management and automation software to tackle performance, configuration and availability on VMware servers.
Currently HP offers base-level capabilities to manage VMware environments using the interfaces provided. VMware produces VMware Infrastructure 3 to manage its virtual machines and hypervisors, but has left it to third parties to build larger management tools leading to many systems requiring several Virtual Centers, with each attending its own set of virtual servers
The project will give HP software such as HP Operations Center, HP Network Management and HP Center Business Availability Center a greater level of integration with VMware’s VirtualCenter, allowing customers to monitor physical and virtual environments with a single tool.
HP’s Discovery and Dependency Mapping and Universal Configuration Management Database products are also equipped to discover virtual machines and import the configuration data about VMware servers into a central database.
HP’s Business Service Automation suite will enable automated tasks to be executed across virtual infrastructure including servers and clients and will manage a virtual machine life cycle, from creation to setting a date when a virtual machine expires, as well as physical device life cycles.
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