VMware VIRTUALIZATION AND CLOUD MANAGEMENT Installation guide

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Management
Simplify IT Management
IT Management Challenges
In the cloud era, IT organizations must respond nimbly to the
business while controlling costs. Progressive IT organizations are
becoming more like service providers, striving to enable self-
service models of IT consumption while maintaining control and
compliance. Virtualization has accelerated delivery of IT services
and is a required foundation for cloud infrastructure. Delivering
self-service and managing these dynamic environments requires
a new level of automation to minimize cost and ensure control
and compliance.
Traditional tools and processes that were designed for siloed,
static physical infrastructures cannot provide the automation and
control needed for inherently dynamic virtualized environments
and cloud infrastructures. They also lack the ability to manage
applications independently from their underlying infrastructures,
a requirement for mobility and portability across cloud
infrastructures. Only with a new approach can IT organizations
achieve the eciency, control and compliance they need to move
from cost center to service provider.
Transform IT Management
Recognized as the leader in virtualization, VMware is uniquely
positioned to build on this foundation with evolutionary, next-
generation management solutions designed specifically for
dynamic virtualized and cloud environments. These new solutions
replace inecient, manual processes with policy-driven
automation and deliver IT management capabilities as an intrinsic
part of the system instead of as an afterthought.
VMware first simplified infrastructure complexity through
virtualization and is now simplifying IT management complexity
with next generation management solutions. VMware
virtualization and cloud management solutions are purpose-built
for dynamic environments to fundamentally change how
organizations manage IT and deliver services.
This approach is built on the foundation of VMware vSphere™ and
VMware vCloud Director to enable a zero-touch infrastructure,
with the built-in automation and policy-based control required to
deploy a self-service model and deliver IT as a service. VMware
takes the complexity out of management, accelerating IT service
delivery, transforming operational eciency, automatically
assuring compliance, and reducing business risks.
AT A GLAN C E
Today’s IT organizations are under pressure to
increase service levels, implement self-service
provisioning and build the next-generation
infrastructure for the cloud—all with the resources
they have today. However, the traditional
management tools were built for siloed, static
environments and simply not designed to meet
today’s demands. As IT environments become
increasingly dynamic and businesses move towards
the cloud, a new approach to management is needed.
As the leader in virtualization and cloud
infrastructure, VMware oers purpose-built
management solutions for dynamic environments
that fundamentally improve how organizations
manage IT and deliver services. The VMware
approach enables zero-touch infrastructure, with the
built-in automation and policy-based control
required to deploy a self-service model. VMware
solutions fundamentally simplify how IT is managed
by accelerating IT service delivery, increasing
operational eciency, automatically assuring
compliance, and by reducing business risks.
KE Y B E N E FI TS
• Zero-touch automation – Create a zero-touch
infrastructure and optimize operational eciency,
with built-in automation to make smarter and
better use of virtual and cloud infrastructure.
• Policy-driven service assurance – Deliver self-
service with control and dynamically assure
compliance and performance in the face of
growing service-level expectations and
accelerating changes.
• Management and cloud interoperability – Ensure
freedom of choice through interoperability with
management ecosystem partners and cloud
service providers, using an open, standards-
based approach.

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Infrastructure and Operations Management
VMware infrastructure and operations management solutions
maximize operational eciency and dramatically simplify
infrastructure management, enabling IT organizations to:
• Create a zero-touch, compliant infrastructure.
• Build automation into the platform.
• Deliver self-service through policy-driven control.
Only VMware solutions give you the power to perform zero-
downtime maintenance, balance workloads on the fly in response
to changing business conditions, and protect critical workloads
against unplanned server downtime.
VMware infrastructure and operations management solutions
build on the strength of the vSphere platform and provide the
underpinnings for successful cloud implementations. IT
organizations can drive the highest levels of eciency,
automation and security while reducing operational costs with
VMware vCenter™ Server, the foundation for the VMware vCenter
product family. The industry’s most advanced virtualization
management platform enables seamless end-to-end datacenter
management through a rich set of APIs that enable integration
with third-party management tools.
VMware infrastructure and operations management solutions
simplify your virtual datacenter operations across virtual and
VMware Solutions for Virtualization and Cloud Management
Management and compliance are designed into each architectural layer of the new IT stack.
physical environments with “set and forget” policy-driven
administration and automated IT processes. The IT team can
optimize capacity with VMware vCenter CapacityIQ, streamline
disaster recovery with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager,
and ensure continuous configuration compliance with VMware
vCenter Configuration Manager.
Application Management
VMware application management solutions enable IT to quickly,
accurately, and confidently transition applications to virtualized
environments and cloud infrastructures. With VMware application
management solutions, IT teams can:
• Dynamically map application dependencies across the
datacenter.
• Monitor and assure application performance.
• Encapsulate applications to ensure portability and mobility.
Today, customers rely on VMware more than ever to run mission-
critical applications—84 percent of virtualized applications run on
VMware vSphere. As the rate of change accelerates and SLA
expectations grow, datacenter and application teams need to
ensure performance and gain better visibility into unknown,
unexpected, and unwanted application dependencies.

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For example, with VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager,
users can quickly understand application dependencies with
unparalleled accuracy to accelerate moves and changes with higher
levels of control and assurance. Using SpringSource® Hyperic, IT
organizations can monitor and manage performance for Web and
custom applications across physical, virtual and cloud
environments. VMware vCenter AppSpeed makes it simple to
monitor application transactions and break latency issues down to
the contributing components using non-intrusive technologies
designed for virtual infrastructures.
End-User Computing Management
With the increasing consumerization of IT, end users are
becoming more demanding, requiring anytime, anywhere access
from an ever-growing array of applications and devices. VMware
end-user computing management allows IT teams to:
• Provision and deploy virtual desktops rapidly.
• Manage virtual desktop images more easily.
• Deliver virtualized applications to endpoint devices.
These capabilities enable IT organizations to move toward user-
centric management and embrace cloud-ready services to
deliver the right content, in the right context, in a secure, policy-
driven manner.
Desktop and application virtualization breaks the bonds between
software, hardware and operating systems, eliminating the need
to actually install or manage desktop environments on end user
devices. From a central location, IT administrators can deliver,
manage and update all Windows desktops and applications in
minutes. This approach makes the testing, provisioning and
support of applications and desktops much easier and less costly.
For example, you can modernize your desktop infrastructure with
VMware View™ and VMware ThinApp™. Both oerings allow you
to better manage traditional desktop layers (operating system,
applications and persona) and increase the security and
compliance around these components while providing the
freedom and flexibility of access across a variety of end-user
devices. This is possible because desktops, applications and data
are secure in the datacenter and delivered as a managed service.
IT Business Management
VMware IT business management solutions allow IT and service
providers to confidently deliver new levels of self-service while
ensuring these new services are automatically governed with
appropriate business and process-level controls. Self-service
without business governance can lead to sprawl, cost, licensing,
chargeback, and security issues. To address these issues,
VMware solutions:
• Enable transparent cost reporting.
• Govern cloud provisioning processes.
• Track cloud software license usage.
VMware management products fundamentally simplify how IT is managed with built-in automation and policy-based control.

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For example, solutions such as VMware vCenter Chargeback help
users gain cost transparency and accountability across business
units to model, measure and assign costs for IT service delivery.
In addition, VMware Service Manager streamlines traditional IT
service management (ITSM) processes with intuitive, graphical
workflow modeling and enforcement, along with simple
automation of complex change, configuration, release and
provisioning tasks.
Simplify IT Management
Now
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management solutions can help transform your IT organization
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you simplify how you manage your IT infrastructure and the
applications that depend upon it.
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