VMware have announced the general availability of vCenter Operations version 5. This version enhances the previous edition by providing a more streamlined and integrated view on performance, capacity and management of your entire virtual environment. A new management portal enables those in IT to better manage and control their environment. Foundation IT have deployed Virtual Center Operations Manager to several customers over the last 6 months; in all cases we have been able to determine how well the environment is performing and the amount of capacity that remains. From this we have seen that the amount of capacity remaining is well over 50% for the hosts and all too often there are lots of SAN hotspots which can be better optimised to improve performance.
- Tighter integration of performance, capacity and configuration management
VMware continues to deliver on its strategy of converging management disciplines with deeper integration of VMware vCenter Capacity IQ™ and VMware vCenter Configuration Manager™ into the vCenter Operations Management Suite. This helps customers to identify emerging problems, “right size” infrastructure resources, identify and remediate performance issues caused by configuration changes.
- New dashboard and smart alerts for quicker, more effective health analysis
Leveraging the deeper integration of capacity and configuration management data, VMware has enhanced the vCenter Operations Management dashboard to provide more comprehensive views into the health, risk and efficiency of cloud infrastructure. New smart alerts provide proactive notifications of emerging health, performance and capacity issues. Automated root cause analysis can identify the offending metric across all layers of the infrastructure.