VMware to step up data center automation game

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This is great news for the IT world. These tools will greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of virtual environments. And VMware is smart to focus on automation. They understand better than anyone that automation is the key to virtualization and then cloud computing.
Without it, you?re not likely to meet your financial and operational goals. Automation in a virtualized environment can increase efficiency and lower operating costs by eliminating labor intensive tasks. Centralized virtual sever managers are a must to reduce the time spent provisioning and managing VMs across a variety of platforms.There are also tools for migrating Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) VMs. These tools are indispensable with key features that provide the ability to move VMs to other servers ?live? without powering them down or experiencing any down time. Some important areas to consider:
?Asset and licensing management
?Automated network-based discovery and mapping
?Centralized provisioning of physical and virtual servers
?Creation and management of templates, images and clones
?Lifecycle management of VMs that may take minutes to provision and years to kill without the right tools and automation
?Configuration auditing, verification and alerts
?Tracking configuration baselines against changes intended?control drift from secure and optimized
?VM configurations and gold builds
?Security based on policies and rule based management with the automation of alerts for configuration violations?key for compliance requirements
?Release and patch management
? Physical and virtual server performance monitoring for Service Level metrics and reporting
?Self-Service? VM provisioning through a reservation system with role, rule, and membership driven access
?Orchestrated and dynamic resource allocation to automate the balancing of physical and virtual server resources
? Backup automation with scheduling and media management capabilities (image and file level backups)

Although this is a list of critical areas for automation, there will be other areas for you to consider as virtualization technologies mature.
Glen Seimetz, Senior Director Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Inc

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