Gartner has named ManageIQ as one of their Cool Vendors in Server Virtualization Management.

Observing that “EVM Insight offers the industry's most in-depth discovery capabilities for VMs,” Gartner analysts Ronni Colville and Cameron Haight offer up a detailed review of many of EVM’s capabilities.

Here is a list of some of the things we think are cool about EVM:

• Configuration Management - virtual machines change over time, often in unpredictable and undesirable ways. EVM’s powerful comparison, drift, and baselining capabilities help spot policy violations, security vulnerabilities, and unauthorized changes.
• Non-Invasive - EVM’s agent-free architecture delivers a completely new way to approach configuration management in virtual environments. In the past, management had to wait until agents or drivers were installed on systems, a time-consuming and error prone exercise. EVM takes advantage of the virtual infrastructure to eliminate prolonged deployment cycles and the risk of destabilizing sensitive systems. You begin capturing data on systems almost immediately - so you can start taming VM sprawl and controlling your virtual infrastructure faster.
• Policy-Based Management - EVM Control brings a unique adaptive policy engine to the challenge of dynamic, high-speed virtual environments. Incorporating real-time configuration assessments, EVM selects the right policies to apply at the right time. Leveraging SmartState™, SmartHost™ and SmartVM™ technologies, EVM enforces policy at multiple control points, ensuring you can maintain standards.
• Web 2.0 - EVM’s powerful web interface leverages the latest user interface innovations to provide comprehensive views of information - in a flexible, easy-to-use format. Included are customizable RSS feeds, console mashups, tagging, and easy user customization. Virtual Intelligence provides comprehensive drill-down, rich visualization, and powerful analytics about the virtual environment, while a unique Virtual Timeline™ enables review of virtual life cycle events across time.
• SmartState™ - SmartState technology delivers the low latency, highly reliable data necessary to automate management at virtual speeds. SmartState technology leverages comprehensive understanding of virtual assets, formats, relationships, and dependencies to provide unparalleled visibility into virtual assets. That visibility feeds a highly refined real-time policy management system that factors configuration, operational, and user policies, combined with the current status of a system, to factor the optimal set of policy actions for any given situation.
• SmartTags™ - Web-based applications have increasingly begun to use tags in support of classification of blog posts, pictures, videos, and more. With EVM, tags now come to systems management - supporting classification, retrieval, reporting, and even access control. EVM can automatically assign tags based on system attributes - such as guest operating system, type of container, and many other considerations. Organizations can also apply their own taxonomy to describe and classify systems - test vs. production, varying service levels, security considerations, or any of a host of other options. Individuals can even assign personalized tags, simplifying management and information retrieval.
• Virtual Appliance - This increasingly popular application form factor allows organizations to speed their deployment of applications, resulting in a reduced time to value. Operating with a hardened linux operating system, the EVM Virtual Appliance delivers application files and logic, a database for information storage, and a directory supporting access control and policies - pre-configured and ready to go. Already have an organization database or directory? No problem - the EVM appliance can easily be configured to integrate with existing systems.
• Virtual BlackBox™ - In addition to a comprehensive Virtual Management Database™ (VMDB) containing information about the virtual environment a Virtual Blackbox™ can be added to VMs and appliances to enable management information to “follow” the VM across locations and management domains. The VMDB™ can track key configuration, change management, and operational events throughout the VMs lifecycle.