EMC has updated its
storage resource management (SRM) to offer greater support for
virtualised operating environments.
EMC Controlcentre 6.0 manages storage discovery, storage
problems, compliance, infrastructure changes, and reporting in
virtualised and physical server environments.
Acting as a complement to VMware Virtualcentre, EMC’s
Controlcentre now offers customers extensive support for
VMware Infrastructure 3 software, and delivers significant
improvements in flexibility and customisation for SRM reporting,
said EMC.
“Virtual infrastructure provides simplified IT management for
datacentres of any size. But VMware Infrastructure customers also
tell us they want to surround their virtualised environments with
diagnostic tools that provide complete end-to-end visibility to
account for the physical infrastructure,” said Brian Byun, vice
president of global partners and solutions at VMware.
“EMC Controlcentre enables our joint customers to simply and
effectively manage storage resources in mixed virtual and physical
environments,” said Byun.
“Companies are deploying virtualisation software to increase
efficiencies, lower costs and enable business agility. While
businesses are realising many of these benefits today, IT tools
have lagged behind,” said Dave Russell, an analyst at Gartner.
“Lacking the ability to comprehensively discover, map, provision
and report on virtual server environments, users cannot effectively
connect the dots between the virtual and physical worlds and fully
realise the
cost efficiencies of virtualisation,” Russell said.
ControlCentre 6.0 offers comprehensive support for VMware
Infrastructure, including discovery, problem management,
compliance, change management, provisioning, and reporting of
VMware ESX Server host and guest servers - fully enabling SRM in
virtual environments.
EMC Controlcentre complements VMware’s Virtualcentre software by
providing end-to-end storage relationship information - from a
VMware ESX server host to the physical array devices.
EMC Controlcentre 6.0 will be available at the end of June.
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