DynamicOps Adds Desktop Automation, Multi-Vendor Capabilities to Virtual Management Software By VSM News Staff published: Wednesday, December 10 2008
Automates
organization, deployment, and management of a virtual desktop infrastructure,
independent
of broker, hypervisor, or image deployment technology, all through a single
management console.
BURLINGTON, MA, December 10, 2008
- DynamicOps, a venture-funded Credit Suisse spinoff, announced
important new features for its Virtual
Resource Manager (VRM), extending the virtualization management software
from servers to desktops. The new features make it faster, more efficient, and
easier to organize, create, and control a virtual desktop environment. In
addition, VRM 3.1 fully supports Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor.
New features of VRM include:
- Extensions that support key
virtual desktop components included in Citrix XenDesktopTM and VMware's virtual
desktop infrastructure.
- Microsoft's Hyper-V support.
- The VRM Infrastructure Organizer, for
fast, efficient mapping of an organization's virtual assets into its
existing shared infrastructure.
VRM automates the management of virtual servers and desktops, from the
time they're created until they're decommissioned. Innovations such
as VRM's desktop extensions help IT organizations deliver high value and
competitive advantages to their customers.
"Desktop
virtualization is taking off, and large scale deployments see high rates of
change. These deployments need management tools to be efficient and
economical," said Rachel Chalmers, research director, infrastructure, the
451 Group. "DynamicOps' VRM can let desktop groups choose best-of-breed
point products while retaining overall control of their environment."
VRM desktop extensions support Citrix XenServerTM and key components
in Citrix XenDesktop, including Citrix Provisioning ServerTM, and Desktop Delivery
Controller. In addition to its current support for VMware's ESX server
and Virtual Center,
early in 2009 DynamicOps will release additional extensions for VMware's
just-announced VMware View 3 virtual desktop stack.
VRM, combined with these extensions, allows organizations to deploy
virtual desktop environments that can scale to thousands of virtual machines,
while reducing operational costs.
In addition to increased utilization of the virtual infrastructure,
VRM's automation capabilities greatly reduce the time to scale to large
deployments, helping organizations accelerate their breakeven time, while
eliminating the need to write and maintain scripts or in-house utilities that
are normally required during production roll out phases. VRM's ability to
integrate and abstract third-party technologies allows IT staff to
easily add, change, and remove components that enhance the user experience and
reduce cost without retraining operation support groups.
The VRM Infrastructure Organizer provides an efficient method to
inventory physical and virtual assets, and map virtual resources into their
shared infrastructure. Once administrators discover and organize their virtual
and physical compute infrastructure, VRM continues its automated management of
assets to facilitate capacity planning, auditing, enforce policy, and provide
chargeback for resources consumed. Any new virtual machines created are
automatically provisioned within the organizational framework established. VRM
provides the ability to define and manage policies for different types of
desktop users, based on varying organizational metrics and attributes.
"Enterprises are going to implement their desktop virtualization
solutions on multiple hypervisors and will need technologies to help monitor,
manage, and maintain large virtual environments efficiently and
cost-effectively," explained Mick Hollison, vice president of product
management, Desktop Delivery Group, Citrix Systems, Inc. "Citrix
XenDesktop is built on an open architecture and supports any hypervisor for
running virtual desktops. The combination of Citrix solutions and DynamicOps
management capabilities enables them to access a data center environment where
virtualization is fast, cost-effective, and efficient."
DynamicOps has also added
interoperability between VRM 3.1 and Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor,
giving enterprises more options to meet functionality needs as well as price
point.
VRM provides a single
management console to manage Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft hypervisors, making
interoperability between these different platforms faster, easier and in line
with stringent budget requirements.
About DynamicOps
DynamicOps offers virtual infrastructure provisioning and management
software. It is a private company based in Burlington,
MA. VRM creates a
secure environment where virtual machines are provisioned, tracked, and
maintained from cradle to grave. www.dynamicops.com.
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