Reflex Systems Announces Virtualization Management Center with Performance Monitoring

By VSM News Staff
published: Monday, January 26 2009

Enhanced version of VMC adds detailed analysis and reports for virtual servers

Atlanta, Georgia, January 26, 2009 - Reflex Systems, the pioneer in virtualization management and security, today announced significant new enhancements to Reflex VMC (Virtualization Management Center) including the addition of performance monitoring and enhanced web-based reporting capabilities.

Reflex's VMC is designed to provide customers with the essential management capabilities needed to effectively manage the complex, dynamic virtual environment, capitalize on the existing virtualization investment, reduce cost through efficient management, minimize downtime and maintain a reliable virtualized infrastructure running critical business-line applications.

The new performance features round-out Reflex VMC's already robust management capabilities which include virtual infrastructure discovery and mapping, configuration change monitoring, application and services discovery and monitoring, virtual network security, and reporting.

Virtual Performance Monitoring

Monitoring and managing virtual performance and the ability to correlate infrastructure configuration changes, network services and security events for performance impact enables organizations to increase business efficiency and business continuity in the datacenter. The ability to detect bottlenecks inside virtual infrastructure, over/under-utilized VMs, performance issues of critical applications, and network outages, allow administrators to improve service level performance for critical applications, perform effective capacity planning and quickly troubleshoot issues while optimizing virtual infrastructure.

"Our customers are finding that some of the most challenging aspects of rolling-out and managing virtual infrastructure requires the ability to correlate infrastructure configuration changes, network services and security events for performance impact to ensure systems are right-sized and properly managed to optimize performance," said Pete Privateer, CEO of Reflex Systems. "Adding in-depth performance monitoring and enhanced reporting functionality to Reflex VMC is a natural way for our award-winning management solution to evolve with the increasing need to properly manage virtual environments."

Reflex VMC provides performance data for the entire virtual infrastructure enabling customers to:

• Monitor performance of virtual infrastructure
• Optimize resource utilization
• Troubleshoot line-of-business application performance
• Verify DRS/load balancing and performance impact
• Perform forensics and root cause analysis
• Manage the performance impact of configuration changes
• Conduct virtual infrastructure capacity planning

Exclusive Features

The new enhancements provide Reflex VMC customers with several exclusive features including the ability to manage virtual environments from a single screen view, correlate infrastructure configuration changes, network services and security events for performance impact, access timeline-based performance  graphs, and access comparative analysis environment information.

"IT organizations seeking to reduce costs and improve flexibility are implementing virtualization. However, they soon find that virtualization brings new challenges and a requirement for new tools in systems management," said Charlie Burns, Vice President at Saugatuck Technology. "Reflex's new enhancements to their Virtualization Management Center provide an innovative way to overcome the challenges of managing performance in a virtualized infrastructure."

Availability

Reflex VMC is available for purchase now through authorized channel partners.  For additional information contact a trusted channel partner or Reflex Systems directly.  A free trial download is available at www.reflexsystems.com .

About Reflex

Reflex Systems is the industry leader in virtualization management and security.  Reflex VMC (Virtualization Management Center) dramatically increases the visibility, management and security of an organization's virtual infrastructure. Purpose-built on a strong security foundation, VMC provides the essential tools needed to bridge the gap between management and security in virtualized data centers. Reflex VMC provides infrastructure discovery and visualization, timeline-based management, application/services discovery, network security, performance, lifecycle management and policy enforcement.  Reflex VMC supports VMware's ESX server, Citrix's XenServer, and Microsoft's Hyper-V virtual server environments. Reflex Systems is based in Atlanta, Georgia and is privately held. For more information, including a trial download of Reflex VMC, visit www.reflexsystems.com.