VMware, Inc, a global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, has showcased four new virtual machine management products that bring unprecedented automation of IT service delivery and business continuity to the datacenter. These products extend the VMware virtualization platform by automating previously error-prone, slow and manual processes.
VMware's new products leverage virtual machines to automate the steps of the IT service delivery and business continuity processes, eliminating repetitive, rote tasks and minimizing the margin for error. The result can be scalable, repeatable and efficient IT processes.
VMware is introducing three IT service delivery products: VMware Lifecycle Manager, VMware Lab Manager and VMware Stage Manager. Each product extends the VMware Infrastructure platform and uses virtual machines and VMware VMotion to enable automation throughout the entire lifecycle of service delivery.
VMware Lifecycle Manager addresses the needs of infrastructure administrators, and allows companies to implement a consistent and automated process for requesting, approving, deploying, updating, and retiring virtual machines.
VMware Lab Manager addresses the needs of development and QA engineers and the IT teams that support them by providing fast and simple self-service provisioning of multi-tier virtual machine based environments while enabling IT control over policies.
VMware Stage Manager addresses the needs of the IT and application administrators responsible for rolling new and updated IT services into production, enabling streamlined and accelerated transition of applications through the pre-production stages - including integration, testing, staging, user acceptance testing - and into production.
For Business Continuity, VMware demonstrated VMware Site Recovery Manager, which can make disaster recovery more rapid, reliable, and manageable. Traditional disaster recovery solutions are slow and prone to failures because they involve many manual and complex steps, are almost impossible to test, and require exact duplication of the production datacenter hardware to ensure reliable recovery. VMware Site Recovery Manager uses hardware- and operating system-independent mobile virtual machines to deliver a groundbreaking solution, which can make disaster recovery more rapid, reliable, manageable, and affordable. VMware Site Recovery Manager delivers centralized management of recovery plans, automates the recovery process, and enables dramatically better testing of recovery plans.
"Customers have been deploying VMware Infrastructure as their strategic virtualization platform to reduce capital and operating expenses, help ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green," said Raghu Raghuram, vice president of products and solutions. "Automation is the next stage for the virtual datacenter. The new VMware products are designed to increase the productivity of IT administrators by preventing virtual machine sprawl and enabling business users to self-provision capacity on demand, and they will bring unprecedented levels of resiliency to all software applications running in VMware virtual machines."