Management systems provided by the virtualization platform vendors (i.e. VirtualCenter / vCenter), require a great deal of manual intervention and process. This manual mode of operation is not efficient and does not scale well as the environment grows; leading to overloaded administrators, sprawl and inefficient operations. The solution is V-Commander-RCM™ (Resource & Cost Management) Module

V-Commander-RCM™ (Resource & Cost Management)

An average environment will be able to reclaim (and reuse the resources from), at least 30% of their VM resources, and at least 25% of their administration time, significantly reducing the ongoing support costs of the virtual environment.

Available as an upgrade to the V-Commander-FIM (Federated Inventory Management), V-Commander-CRM module provides immediate value through cost containment, better resource utilization, improved cost accountability and dramatically reduced admin time.

V-Commander-RCM focuses improving the utilization of both your physical resources as well as operational manpower by providing enhanced insight & reporting, automatic sprawl detection and decommissioning automation that includes email integration and end of life extension workflow.

Optimize the Use of Your Physical Resources

The lack of automation and the ease and rapidity of virtual server provisioning makes virtual sprawl a significant issue within the modern datacenter. Even well controlled environments will have a percentage of their virtual machines (VMs) redundant and unnecessarily consuming resources.

V-Commander-RCM™ automatically identifies 6 different classes of sprawl, including: excess snapshots, unused VMs, overprovisioned VMS, invisible inventory, forgotten offline VMs and orphan VMs, ensuring more efficient usage of your virtual server environment.

And by establishing and enforcing VM lifecycle duration policies, valuable resources can be regularly reclaimed and the time before you need to add infrastructure extended.

In addition, increased reporting and cost analytics simplify resource management and planning by not only calculating and projecting historical resource use, (complete with costing information), but also identifying the resources that are planned to be made available over time through VM reclamation.

Reduce the Ongoing Cost of Support

Enterprise wide information at their fingertips, combined with the automation provided by V-Commander-RCM™ allows IT administrators to dramatically reduce time spent troubleshooting, and to “manage by exception” rather than managing manually; allowing these highly skilled resources to focus on more added value activities.

Through the use of effective visualization, context driven information and actions, role based controls and extensive group manipulation tools, V-Commander-RCM™ greatly simplifies overall and ongoing management tasks, reducing admin workload even further.

In addition to automatic and continuous sprawl detection and simplified management, V-Commander-RCM also provides out of the box decommissioning automation.

This 3 tier policy sets up with a simple point and click, and automatically sends out reminders to both business owners and virtualization administrators when the scheduled decommission time is reached and includes expiry extension workflows ensuring that administrators only need to get involved when an exception occurs.

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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 the 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-RCM is the best way to get control of your environment, use automation to free up administrators, and optimize the use of valuable resources, allowing you to grow your virtual environments without the need to add more resources or staff improving the overall return on your virtualization investment.