VM Discovery, Reporting & Inventory Management
"You can't manage what you can't measure" is an old business maxim, and is especially true in virtualized server environments. Identifying, tracking and reporting on your virtual server environment is as basic to managing VMs as it is to business management. Without effective VM Inventory Management it’s impossible to maintain control or grow your server virtualization environment safely.
V-Commander-FIM™ not only automatically discovers and tracks your entire VM inventory it can also save up to 25% of your current administrator workload!
One of the most common problems when it comes to virtualization management is lack of information… Not surprising when you consider that managing and reporting on virtualization inventories requires a lot of manual updating – especially where multiple VirtualCenters or vCenters are involved. Most organizations today have defaulted to some form of spreadsheet to accomplish this – which is time consuming, prone to errors and easily gets out of date or incomplete.
V-Commander-FIM™ (Federated Inventory Management)
But if getting real-time insight into your virtualization inventories is your problem.. We have the solution: V-Commander FIM™ provides IMMEDIATE value through:
- Centralized Inventory of Record: Real time VM Discovery & synchronization across ANY mix of vCenters and VirtualCenters, incorporating spreadsheet based attributes, and comprehensive reporting platform
- Inside the Container Monitoring: Automatic scanning of OS/Applications/Services inside the VM container, with the ability to compare any VM to any other or to itself at any point in time.
- Data Store Reporting: Mapping of VMs to files on disk, regardless if VMs get moved, renamed, or removed from inventory
- Historical Analytics: Automatic collection of historical event information from all VirtualCenters and vCenters, combined with analytics to understand VM and storage growth and trends as input to future predictions
- Built-in Costing: Automatic allocation of cost elements to both VMs and virtual infrastructure, combined with cost reporting and trending
Providing real time VM discovery & synchronization across any mix of vCenters and VirtualCenters, V-Commander-FIM™ creates a trusted real-time Inventory of Record complete with an extensive reporting system that provides enterprise visibility.
V-Commander-FIM™ goes to work right out of the box, immediately interrogating all of the VirtualCenters or vCenters in its environment to create a historical database of your complete environment, complete with costing information and automatic identification of VM lineage.
With V-Commander-FIM you will
- Reduce your troubleshooting time
- Reduce your ongoing support costs
- Improve your resource management
- Provide cost visibility
Reduce Troubleshooting Time
V-Commander-FIM™ pays for itself in a few months by reducing troubleshooting and ongoing support time; improving resource and capacity planning; providing needed cost visibility; and through tight integration with datacenter asset management systems.
Tracking VMs is essential to effective troubleshooting… Knowing where VMs were at a specific point in time allows administrators to quickly identify potential problem points and deal with them appropriately. Similarly, understanding the lineage relationships between VMs and how they are changing over time can radically shorten the time needed to identify problems.
Created with direct input from administrators from all types of organizations, the V-Commander-FIM reporting systems allows administrators to “slice and dice” the environment almost instantly; isolating the information they need to resolve the issues they are facing. Comparing a problem VM with its parent, another VM or itself a week ago can rapidly identify recent changes that have caused issues. And having operational VM commands (start, stop, clone, etc) available from within the inventory system, allows administrators to take direct action without having to switch over to VirtualCenter.
Reduce Ongoing Support Costs
In order to manage environments effectively, organizations also need to be able to associate a variety of additional information to VMs. These can be anything from the name of the business owner, to the cost center or project number, to specific information about the application or security level. Every organization has its own data elements that are important for it to track and report on. The ability to accumulate and associate this information to specific VMs is essential when it comes to true enterprise insight.
Not only does the Federated Inventory Management module discover, trace and track VMs across the entire enterprise… Its comprehensive reporting systems allows you to group, view and manage virtual machines based on criteria such as business unit, department, location, server purpose, expiry date, administrator or service level agreement, dramatically reducing the time it takes to manage the environment on an ongoing basis.Improve Resource Management
Understanding how your environment is trending is essential to predicting future (or current) resource requirements, and identifying when VMs scheduled for decommissioning provides a better management picture of resource use.
V-Commander-FIM automatically displays historical trending (even on day one!), and will automatically project that forward to show how maintaining growth curves will impact the environment. It also reports on resources that are scheduled to be freed up for reuse, greatly simplifying ongoing capacity management...
Provide Cost Visibility and Chargeback
Tracking costs and VM ownership is automatic with V-Commander-FIM. Whether you are planning on using cost information in improve financial transparency, facilitate discussions with business owners or to modify your cost allocation systems… the information is there for you to use.
Embotics V-Commander-FIM is built from the ground up to help administrators and IT managers gain the visibility to understand their VMware virtual environments faster more completely and more flexibly than they can with VirtualCenter/vCenter alone. A wide variety of associated information including inside the container profiles, costs and lineage are tracked and always available via the robust reporting platform. Best of all, its all automatic.
Embotics Quick-start Integration Program (EQIP™)
Designed to assist clients integrating the management of the virtual datacenter into their existing datacenter management systems, this on-demand integration offering integrates V-Commander with other enterprise management systems increasing the overall value for our clients.
Delivered remotely by Embotics, this integration includes the pushing of any or all of the VM inventory information contained within V-Commander to any enterprise system that accepts Webservices. (Asset management systems, DMDB’s trouble ticket systems etc).. Additional integration, for example the use of data from other systems to trigger policy or update VM attributes is also available..
Representing the best value in the market today, V-Commander-FIM is THE trusted real-time Inventory of Record and reporting system, saving administration time, improving troubleshooting and planning, and providing cost visibility for the whole enterprise.
