VMware delivers VMware vCenter products - available through Workgroup
JOHANNESBURG – September 30, 2009 – The dedicated VMware division at Workgroup has announced the general availability of two new products: VMware vCenter AppSpeed and VMware vCenter Chargeback. Also announced is a major release of VMware vCenter Lab Manager 4.
These new products simplify and automate key IT processes such as application performance monitoring, chargeback, and management of dev/test environments to increase IT productivity in the data centre – delivering more value to customers as they scale out their virtual environments, says Angeline De Castro, business unit manager: virtualization at Workgroup.
“VMware vCenter AppSpeed provides service-level reporting and proactive performance management for multi-tier applications running in virtual machines,” she says. “AppSpeed gives IT administrator’s visibility into how application performance depends on the different tiers of virtual and physical infrastructure.
“Easy to install and non-intrusive, vCenter AppSpeed discovers, monitors, and reports within minutes of installation or download, helping customers increase application performance and uptime, troubleshoot and resolve performance issues more quickly and virtualise more machines at a faster rate.”
VMware vCenter Chargeback ensures accountability across the business by allocating and reporting on costs associated with the use of virtual infrastructure. With vCenter Chargeback, multiple factors such as cost-based models and fixed costs can be mapped to data centre resources and then applied across cost centres to ensure proper business alignment.
vCenter Chargeback helps customers:
- Provide business units with a clear view into resources consumed and their associated costs – enabling ‘showback’ of valuable information, even for organisations not yet ready to chargeback to the business.
- Automatically create detailed billing reports that can be submitted to business units within an organisation.
- Transition the IT environment from a cost centre to a value centre.
vCenter Lab Manager 4 provides IT with the ability to create and manage an internal cloud for dev/test, providing higher service levels to users through self-service access to resources needed for development, test, staging and deployment of complex, multi-tier applications.
“With vCenter Lab Manager, IT can give users on-demand, role-based access to a shared library of pre-configured multi-VM environments, eliminating the need for repetitive system setup and teardown, while enabling IT to maintain security and full administrative control,” says De Castro.
The new features in vCenter Lab Manager 4 include:
- Unification with VMware Stage Manager, creating a single solution to encompass multiple use cases including streamlined application delivery from development to production; simplified release management; and better training, support and online demo environments.
- Next generation network fencing capabilities to better support teams working on multiple instances of extremely large-scale application environments.
- Support for both ESX and ESXi form factors to give IT administrators more deployment choices for internal cloud resources.
Contact information
Workgroup, Angeline De Castro, (011) 654-6229, angelinedc@workgroup.co.za
