Solutions


Solutions

Recognizing that our customers are at different stages in their adoption of server virtualization, V-Commander is architected to allow clients to add features and capabilities incrementally as their environment and needs change.

Customers typically start with the base module: V-Commander-FIM™ (Federated Inventory Management), providing enterprise wide VM Discovery, Insight, and Inventory Management. This module creates a self populating, trusted Inventory of Record and reporting system that saves administration time, improves troubleshooting and planning and provides cost visibility.

The insight provided by the base module is complemented by the second module V-Commander-RCM (Resource and Cost Management Module), which adds advanced costing, sprawl detection and reclamation automation to the base FIM™ module. This provides better resource management, cost containment, improved cost accountability and dramatically reduced admin time and ongoing support costs.

The third module V-Commander-ORM (Operational & Risk Management Module), complements the previous two by focusing on operational risk and control. This module adds process automation, sprawl prevention, continual monitoring and alerting as well as rogue and VM mobility controls completing the full functionality of V-Commander.

All modules are activated by a license key, and turn on without the disruption of installing another product, and of course all previous setups and activity are maintained so there are no database updates or re-syncs necessary... Just activate and start using!

V-Commander Modular Summary


 Federated Inventory Management Resource & Cost Management Operational and Risk Management
Trusted real-time Inventory of Record and reporting system that saves administration time, improves troubleshooting and planning and provides cost visibility
  • Real time VM Discovery & synchronization across any mix of vCenters and VirtualCenters
  • VM Identity management
  • Rear view mirror analysis
  • Basic Costing
  • Lineage tracking & Reporting
  • Data store reporting
  • Inside the container scanning and drift analysis
  • Inventory & population trending and forecast
 Better resource management, cost containment and improved cost accountability and dramatically reduced admin time

All Inventory Management Features PLUS:
  • Enhanced Insight & Reporting
  • Enhanced Costing
  • Sprawl Detection: Reclamation candidate identification
  • Reclamation automation including:
    • 3 tier policy enforcement
    • email integration
    • End of life extension automation
 Process automation and control enables fewer incidents and audit findings while improving fiscal operational and risk oversight.

All Resource & Cost Management features PLUS:
  • Constant monitoring of the environment identifying out of process VMs including:
    • VM Mobility control
    • VM approval enforcement
    • Unauthorized or "rogue" identification
    • Sprawl Prevention
    • End of life extension approval
    • Secure Repository

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.


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