Virtualization Products and Technologies

Virtual Machine Manager helps enable centralized management of physical and virtual IT infrastructure, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization platforms. It includes end-to-end capabilities such as planning, deploying, managing, and optimizing the virtual infrastructure.

Benefits

• Centrally creates and manages virtual machines across the entire datacenter
• Easily consolidates multiple physical servers onto virtual hosts
• Rapidly provisions and optimizes new and existing virtual machines

Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)—a feature new to VMM 2008—enables the dynamic management of virtual resources through management packs that are PRO enabled. As an open and extensible platform, PRO encourages partners to design custom management packs that promote compatibility of their products and solutions with PRO’s powerful management capabilities.

Data Protection Manager (DPM) is designed to provide advanced disk-to-disk-to-tape protection for infrastructures that depend on Microsoft virtualization technology. By using shadow copy-based block-level protection of your virtual disks, DPM delivers fast backup and efficient retention that doesn’t consume inordinate disk space. It protects physical servers running Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, or SharePoint products and technologies.

Benefits

• Helps protects both physical and virtual machines without downtime
• Provides dynamic protection and recovery options for systems and workloads

Operations Manager is a comprehensive service management tool which allows the monitoring of thousands of servers, applications, and clients. Operations Manager provides a complete view of the health of your IT environment and enables quick response to disruptive network events.

Benefits

• Includes system level and application level monitoring
• Allows for proactive management of systems and applications across the datacenter
• Integrates with Virtual Machine Manager to allow for automated resolutions of problems

Configuration Manager provides centralized configuration management of physical and virtual systems. Configuration Manager performs complete system deployment, software deployment, updates and patching, and also integrated compliance and configuration drift control.

Benefits

• Simplifies system deployment, task automation, and compliance management
• Makes policy-based security management easier, and thus businesses more agile