Opalis & Microsoft Enable the Dynamic Data Center

An Integrated Solution with System Center to Automate IT Operations

Opalis IT process automation software orchestrates infrastructure resources, virtual lifecycle management and service delivery to standardize and automate IT operations in order to reduce costs, and improve the quality of service.
Opalis provides a drag-and-drop interface with pre-designed workflows that orchestrate System Center products and automate activities to dynamically respond to failure scenarios or poorly configured components in the environment. Users can also build customized workflows that dynamically trigger processes based on system state changes or service requests.

Virtual Lifecycle Management

Opalis enables greater control over the virtual infrastructure by automating virtualization activities. This eliminates the latency and risk associated with 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.

Automate Virtual Server Provisioning

Opalis orchestrates Virtual Machine Manager, Active Directory, Operations Manager and Configurations Manager to dynamically provision a new business server.

Incident Response

Opalis drastically improves MTTR (mean time to repair) by automating actions that triage, diagnose, and fix problems. Users can trigger automated tasks directly from Operations Manager that orchestrate System Center products for dynamic self healing. Using Opalis and Operations Manager users can:

• Triage and diagnose the root cause for resolution.
  
• Enrich the knowledge base with diagnostic info and escalate to an application expert.
  
• Replace a failing VM.
  
• Add capacity to a service.
  
• Automate other common remediation steps.

Multi-Vendor Virtual Management

With Opalis and Virtual Machine Manager, users can automate management to increase server utilization, and achieve dynamic resource optimization across virtualization platforms. Opalis also extends PRO for Virtual Machine management, with the ability to orchestrate and automate IT operations across multiple virtual environments regardless of the platform they are using.

Achieve On-Demand Business Services Across Physical, Virtual and Cloud Environments

Opalis helps customers achieve the promise of dynamic management of private and hosted clouds on the Microsoft platform by orchestrating Microsoft System Center tools and business applications. This enables users to move resources seamlessly between physical, virtual and cloud environments quickly, while adhering to best practices that enforce change and compliance.

• Cloud bursting - Scale capacity up or down based on dynamic events.
  
• Disaster recovery - Automatically fail over to cloud resources and avoid service interruption.
  
• Seamlessly move servers between private and hosted environments.

Resources

	­Brochure: View Opalis and Microsoft Brochure
	­Press Release: How Opalis Orchestrates System Center

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