LAS VEGAS —
EMC, the storage and data protection company that is quickly morphing into a
cloud infrastructure provider, Feb. 14 launched an updated data center control
package that enables better overall use of VMware's popular vCenter server.
EMC made the
announcement at VMware's global partner conference, which is being held at the
Venetian Hotel through Feb. 16.
EMC, the
parent company of VMware, said the new IT Operations Intelligence v9.0 offers a
unified, graphical-user-interface view into an entire virtual data center
infrastructure as controlled by vCenter. This means that data center
administrators now can better visualize and understand the interrelationships
among virtual assets, their underpinning physical elements, the I/O sources
flows, and the applications and data sources that relate to them.
Most
conventional tools for IT environments are limited in their ability to
visualize these virtual machine connections. This can create so-called
"blind spots" that force IT operations teams to manually aggregate
bits and pieces of data from multiple sources in an attempt to identify,
understand and resolve issues in a virtualized data center—especially large
facilities with hundreds or thousands of server racks.
Key new features
in the upgrade, according to EMC, include the following:
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detailed
operational management insight into VMware environments, including
cross-domain availability and impact analysis for all VMware-attached
storage, and full impact analysis to the virtual machine level;
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visibility
into the connectivity and relationships among simple and distributed
virtual switches and networks from VMware and Cisco Systems, as well as
the ability to understand how problems in virtual switches and virtual
networks impact virtual machines and virtualized applications;
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enhanced
management display visualizations that provide cross-domain notification
detail and dashboard-like visibility using a new browser-based console
with mash-up capabilities;
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enhanced
availability management for virtualized applications, including composite
applications; and
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a framework
for managing Metro Ethernet-based service availability and discovering
Metro Ethernet topologies.
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