VMware announces vCenter Operations

"VMware to Integrate Performance, Capacity and Configuration Analytics to Streamline Management of Intelligent Virtual Infrastructure."


-Yahoo! Finance


What does this mean to you, VMware admin?

We can all admit after many years of working with VirtualCenter and vCenter, that there are some things left to be desired, where we depend on third parties to come in and tell us things VMware should already be able to tell us about "their/our" environment.

vCenter Operations appears to be bridging that gap.


From Yahoo! Finance, here are the main coverages:

• Proactively ensure service levels in dynamic cloud environmentsReal-time performance dashboards with patented analytics and powerful visualization of the health of the environment will allow IT to proactively pinpoint performance issues and risks before they become problems and impact SLAs. 
• Get to the root cause of performance problems faster 
  The combination of patented analytics and infrastructure-awareness will allow vCenter Operations to more accurately and rapidly determine symptoms so that infrastructure and operations teams quickly get to the root cause of performance problems. By enabling a more collaborative approach, vCenter Operations can speed problem resolution and change management cycles and reduce manual efforts by 40 percent. 
• Optimize deployments in "real-time" to enable self-service provisioningvCenter Operations will provide real-time analysis of performance and capacity to help teams make fast, informed decisions on deployment. This capability will be critical to enabling rapid and reliable provisioning needed in self-service environments. 
• Maintain compliance in the face of constant changeAutomated provisioning and configuration analysis will ensure optimal configuration by automatically detecting configuration changes and enabling rollback to help IT maintain continuous compliance with operational best practices and industry or regulatory compliance requirements. 

Further:

vCenter Operations Pricing and AvailabilityvCenter Operations is designed as a set of products and solutions that will bring together the performance, capacity and configuration management capabilities VMware has developed and acquired, including VMware vCenter CapacityIQ™, VMware vCenter Configuration Manager and Integrien Alive™. vCenter Operations will be available in three editions to meet the needs of customers managing both VMware vSphere-virtualized and physical environments.

• vCenter Operations Standard offers performance management with capacity and change awareness for VMware vSphere-virtualized and cloud environments.
• vCenter Operations Advanced adds more advanced capacity analytics and planning to vCenter Operations Standard's performance management for VMware vSphere-virtualized and cloud environments.
• vCenter Operations Enterprise offers performance, capacity and configuration management capabilities for both virtual and physical environments and includes customizable dashboards, smart alerting and application awareness.

The first versions of these editions will be available in late Q1 with prices starting at $50 per VM. vCenter Operations will be available through VMware sales and via VMware's more than 25,000 channel partners.

SOURCE:  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/VMware-Delivers-New-iw-792427071.html?x=0&.v=1