Extend Management Disciplines to Your Virtual Environment
Virtual machines have become mainstream technology for adding servers to the IT infrastructure. However, it has also added a layer of complexity and overhead due to the exponential growth in the number of servers under management. In order to control server sprawl and optimize virtualization without increasing the staff and cost required to manage these environments, companies need to automate management best practices.
Manual and uncontrolled VM deployment results in:
- Increased management requirements - higher cost
- Software compliance issues - greater risk
- Configuration management problems - lower quality
- Security and risk exposure - greater risk
- Uncontrolled cost - higher cost
Opalis can reduce the time, cost, and error potential of manual approaches to virtual service management by automating virtual lifecycle management, incident response and change management in your virtual infrastructure. Opalis brings together your investment in tools from multiple vendors, the knowledge of your best people, and ITIL processes to rapidly respond to business needs.
"Enterprises must automate and control virtual machine lifecycle processes to prevent these exposures." Andi Mann, EMA.
Virtual Lifecycle Management
Opalis enables greater control over the virtual infrastructure by automating virtualization activities. This eliminates the latency and risk associated introducing new services, and ensures licenses and assets are reclaimed when the server is no longer needed. From the Virtual Machine Manager self service portal users can trigger workflows that:
- Orchestrate storage, server, application and management tools to build compliant services.
- Approve, clone, configure, deploy and verify virtual machine status.
- Backup, notify, tear down and reclaim assets.
- Power up and power down servers.
Opalis orchestrates Virtual Machine Manager, Active Directory, Operations Manager and Configurations Manager to dynamically provision a new business server.
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Product Links
> Opalis Integration Server> Opalis Integration Pack for VMware> Opalis Integration Pack for Microsoft Virtual Server
