Enterprise Virtualization Management Suite

ManageIQ's Enterprise Virtualization Management™ (EVM™) Suite provides the insight, control, and automation capabilities you need to effectively manage your virtual IT infrastructure. Our products are designed specifically to address the challenges inherent to dynamic virtual environments.

Challenges

As enterprises seek the benefits of virtualization, they quickly realize that virtual infrastructures are fundamentally different from physical ones. Traditional management tools don’t take these differences, such as suspended and inactive VMs, into account, As a consequence, they can’t keep up with the rate of change, increasing scale, and complexity found in virtual environments. New capabilities, such as live migration, seriously stress existing IT lifecycle processes for configuration and change management. The result? Enterprises need a fundamentally different approach to manage virtual assets.

EVM Benefits

Agent-free technology increases discovery efficiency and minimizes risk
Secure, fine-tuned virtual appliance solution enables rapid implementation and quick time-to-value
Scalability ensures ample capacity exists to meet growing virtualization management demands
Integration with existing enterprise infrastructure protects existing investment, supports IT processes
Cross-platform support allows flexibility in virtualization technology choices
Role-based administration and management enables enforcement of access and functional controls

EVM Suite

The EVM suite of products provide comprehensive management of virtual assets. They provide deep visibility into virtual machines - even when they're offline or brand new, captures interdependencies of virtual components, enforces controls over VM execution and operations, and easily integrates with existing management systems and processes. The EVM Suite is comprised of:

EVM Insight™- establishes a foundation for control and automation of virtualized environments by discovering and maintaining accurate configuration information, unique identification, genealogy, and relationship mapping for virtual assets. 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.

EVM Control™- provides real-time, policy-based management, security, and compliance controls over virtual assets. These policy-based controls, applied against virtual assets at key operations and configuration life cycle points, ensure the enforcement of IT standards, improve reliability and availability, and reduce risk.

Foundation Capabilities of the EVM Suite

The EVM Suite leverages advanced technologies that deliver the scalability, security, ease of use, and integration required to support enterprise-level virtual machine deployments.

Agent-free, non-invasive architecture - dramatically reduces risk and time-to value compared with agent- and driver-based systems, and reduces operational complexity. The architecture enables broad support for virtual machines and appliances due to the absence of an OS-specific agent.

Comprehensive configuration management capabilities, using patent-pending SmartState™ technology - enable the combination of real-time discovery, analysis, policy-based control of virtual machines across all states - even offline or paused.

Easy-to-use console - leverages powerful Web 2.0 technologies - including RSS, AJAX, tagging, and mashups - to support information sharing and collaboration. Provides a rich set of out-of-the box reporting, visualization, and analytical capabilities to simplify management. Role-based access controls limit console access, reporting, and views, with all activities logged for auditing purposes.

The EVM Virtual Management Database™ (VMDB™) - maintains configuration and relationship information about the virtual infrastructure, supporting change and release management processes. The VMDB provides a definitive and trusted source of virtual configuration information, and can be federated with a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) or other asset management databases.