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Business Challenge
As virtualization on the server platform has matured, IT organizations have been more willing to deploy virtualization technologies as a means to maximize server resources. These virtual machines present unique challenges to the System Administrator and Operations staffs as identified below:
Business Need
- Customers need to understand-availability of resources across physical server and mapping to VM
- Customers need business relevance to optimize the use of their virtual machines.
- Customers want a single management interface, not a console for each unique vendor technology.
- Virtualized environment are deployed to production environment-customers need availability assurance
- Vendor supplied management tools are focused on resource management.
Our Solution
BMC Performance Manager for Virtual Servers provides real-time monitoring of the virtualized environment, generating events when critical availability and performance thresholds are exceeded. In a VMware deployment, BMC Performance Manager for Virtual Servers discovers all virtual machines and maps those virtual machines to their associated VMware ESX/GSX servers and/or VMwareGroups. With robust availability, performance and capacity metrics, and enterprise reporting, customers can proactively manage a complex VMware deployment to effectively maximize availability and performance of your environment.
Key Features & Benefits
- Single management interface
- Discovery of all virtual machines across the enterprise
- Manage critical availability, performance, and capacity thresholds
- Map virtualized resources to physical resources
- Provide business context to the virtualized environment
- Ability to answer the resource questions:• How much do I have?• How much is allocated?• How much am I using?• Who is using it?• How much is left?
- Enterprise level reporting
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Article
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"Greening the Data Center
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"Greening the Data Center
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Server Consolidation and Virtualization: Issues and Actions
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Brochure
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BMC Virtualization Management Solution Brief
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2008 BMC Annual Report
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BMC Business School Course Catalog
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BMC Educational Services
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Datasheet
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Server Management and Systems Monitoring
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BMC Performance Manager for Virtual Servers
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BMC Infrastructure Performance and Availability Management
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Performance and Capacity Management Service
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Managed Services Partner insert
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BMC Performance Assurance Suite for Virtual Servers Data Sheet
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Success Story
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BMC IS&T: The First and Best Customer of BMC Software
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BMC Configuration Manager Saves Time and Money for BMC IS&T
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White Paper
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Implementing BMC Performance Assurance in a VMware Environment
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Swing into Business Service Management - Seven Strategies
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Achieving Proactive Incident and Problem Management Using BMC Performance Manager
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Service Automation and Operation for Virtualized Environments
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Virtualization: Planning the Full IT Lifecycle
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IT Management and Virtualization Software Reduce Cost and Energy Consumption at BMC Datacenter : An ROI Case Study
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Achieve Utility Computing Results Today
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Capacity Management and the CDB BMC Solutions as the Cornerstone to a Capacity Management Strategy
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Data Center Virtualization: Best Practices for Maintaining Service Automation in your Virtual Data Center using BMC Software and VMware Solutions
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