Embotics V-Commader VMware, Hyper-V & Citrix Xen Management Tools
V-Commander is a solution that simplifies virtualization and private cloud management by providing out-of-the-box capacity management and performance optimization management.
Delivering all the core functionality from a single architecture, V-Commander simplifies and automates virtual machine (VM) and virtual infrastructure (VI) management with an intuitive GUI and policy-based configuration creation, monitoring and enforcement.
Key Features and Functions of Embotics V-Commander:
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Capacity Management
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VM Lifecycle Management
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Self-Service Portals
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Change Management & Audit
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Configuration Management
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Policy Based Automation
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Chargeback & IT Costing
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Performance Management
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Troubleshooting tools
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Real-time Centralized Reporting Engine
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Multi-Hypervisor support
v-Commander enables:
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Continuous non-intrusive monitoring across one or more virtual environments
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Creation of a centralized, auditable database providing a real-time view of all virtual assets, their relationships and changes over time
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Replace manual VM tracking spreadsheets to automatically track and report on the virtual inventory including who, what, where, when, why and cost
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Capacity planning and management to provide just-in-time intelligence to guide new placements and predict growth
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View performance and utilization of the environment and delegate restricted views to authorized external stakeholders
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Automated sprawl diagnostics to find and recover over-provisioned disks, orphaned VMs and VMDKs, idle or zombie VMs and powered off VMs
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Monitor and report on snapshot usage
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Track VM lineage and template compliance
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Policy-based lifecycle automation and enforcement over provisioning, placements, migrations, template compliance, configuration lineage and decommissioning workflows
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Provide VM owners with automatic notifications of a VM's expiry with one-click lease extension capability
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Enforce authorizations and approvals over the creation of new VMs
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X-ray VMs to track contents, monitor configuration drift, identify what changed and validate patch levels
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Model and track IT costs to provide cost awareness and/or chargeback
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Logically divide virtual infrastructure and prevent unauthorized placements and co-locations (e.g. multi-tenant isolation)
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Remove/restrict access to vCenter, while still delegating administration and reporting privileges to authorized users via an abstracted self-service portal
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Schedule automated reports for technical and business stakeholders