VMware to step up data center automation game

VMware on Monday will roll out a product family dubbed vCenter to automate data center tasks and manage to service level agreements. The announcements will kick off VMworld 2009 in San Francisco this week. VMware's vCenter products are designed to ride shotgun with the company's vSphere cloud computing operating system. In a nutshell, vCenter is designed to automate tasks such as data center provisioning, monitoring, change and performance management. VMware added that vCenter is also designed to manage toward policies and service level agreements. Each virtual server that is deployed will operate to a specified service level. The vCenter family includes: AppSpeed to manage service level reporting for virtualized applications; CapacityIQ to manage capacity levels of virtual machines resources and data centers; ConfigControl, which checks compliance and configuration states; Site Recovery Manager, which automates disaster recovery tasks; LifeCycle Manager, which automates virtual machines from provisioning to retirement; Chargeback, which allocates infrastructure costs; And Lab Manager, which aims to ease development, quality assurance and pre-production environments. The vCenter apps will be sold a la carte per processor. Most of the vCenter family is generally available. Separately, VMware will announce VMware Go, a free beta service to get small and midsized businesses using virtualization tools quickly. VMware Go is a Web-based service that will walk customers through the ESXi, the company's free hypervisor. The VMware Go beta will start Monday and be generally available in the fourth quarter. More on VMware: TechRepublic: Most CIOs refuse to buy the hype on desktop virtualization VMware's SpringSource purchase sparks head scratching; Still doesn't solve the Microsoft problem VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? VMware: 'Somewhat better visibility' ahead

VMware to step up data center automation game

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