EVM Insight
EVM Insight™ - establishes a foundation for the control and automation of virtual environments by discovering and maintaining accurate configuration information, unique identification, genealogy, and relationship and dependency mapping. Comprehensive information and analysis is provided for hosts, virtual machines, virtual appliances, VMware® VirtualCenter instances, storage and network elements, operating systems, applications, patches, and accounts.
Challenges
Administrators need a real-time, comprehensive inventory of the resources supporting IT services. Today, those critical services increasingly include virtual assets. Virtualization makes it vastly more difficult to discover, assess, and classify those resources.
Effective management of virtual environments requires quantitiative information, at the physical level, about hosts, their storage and network elements, and associated VirtualCenter instances. But it also requires qualitative information about virtual machines, their operating systems, applications, patches, and accounts.
Since administrators can't accurately collect and maintain this information, they're left to try and cobble together legacy solutions and manual approaches to gather the needed data. Managers must select between two bad choices - go without the data needed to manage the environment, and risk delivering decreased service levels, or drive up administrative overhead and costs.
EVM Insight Benefits
- Establishes a solid foundation for managing virtualized environments
- Provides configuration information, dependency, and relationship mapping for virtual assets
- Captures and records important virtual asset events
- Enables unique, reliable identification for virtual assets
- Role-based notification of critical configuration events
- Enables service oriented views and tracking of virtual assets
- Visualization, reporting, and analytics for virtual assets and events
- Rapid time-to-value
Key Features
EVM Insight delivers critical capabilities that enable organizations to better understand their virtual environment. Comprehensive and up-to-date information about virtual assets provides the foundation for effective configuration management.
- Comprehensive Real-Time Discovery – captures and automatically maintains in-depth configuration information using patent-pending SmartState™ technology. Detailed configuration information is captured for hosts, virtual machines, virtual appliances, VirtualCenter instances, storage and network elements, operating systems, applications, patches, and accounts.
- Identification and Tracking - assigns unique identifiers to virtual assets for reliable tracking and recording of operational and configuration events across infrastructures and lifecycles using patent-pending Virtual BlackBox™ technology. Real-time event and configuration correlation enables point-of-origin, relationship, and genealogy mapping.
- Visualization and Reporting - delivers a rich set of reports, graphs and analytics about the virtual infrastructure with customizable role-based views and comprehensive relationship mapping, including genealogy, virtual services, host affinity, and snapshot trees. A unique Virtual Timeline™ supports user-friendly time-based presentation of infrastructure events, including configuration events such as discovery, operations events such as start and stop, and policy events. Patent-pending Virtual Thumbnails™ create an iconized, visual representation of information associated with virtual machine guests and hosts, including their status and level of compliance with policies.
- Baselining, Comparison and Drift Analysis - enables the identification and articulation of fine-grained differences between configuration versions, deviations over time, genealogical changes, and ad hoc comparisons. These powerful capabilities enhance impact and problem analysis, release management, and standards compliance in virtual environments.
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