When was the last time your virtualization management system raised a red flag?

- Chances are, the answer to this question is never...

Virtualization management today tends to be manual with very little automation, creating an environment where poor inventory management and lost productivity prevail. This is probably not too much of an issue when environments are small and tactical in nature, but management becomes critical as you start to expand.

Manually driven management systems simply do not scale well, and will result in overburdened admin staff, significantly increased support costs, greater potential for virtual sprawl and operational risk which translates in turn to increased potential for compliance issues.

V-Commander™ is the undisputed market leader in the control of costs and risks for your virtual environment, and it's the easy to deploy automation and control system you need to prevent sprawl and allow you to scale your virtual environment successfully.

With V-Commander you will reduce your total operational costs, by eliminating virtual sprawl in all its forms, and dramatically reducing your ongoing support costs.

At the same time you will increase your operational efficiencies through out of the box automation, allowing your administrative team to manage by exception rather than manual effort and improving your decision making with enterprise insight and VM costing at your fingertips.

Automation will also improve your operational consistency, with the automatic identification of rogue VMs and out-of-process activity, and policy driven controls reducing exceptions and incidents.

Delivering value right out of the box, V-Commander installs quickly, is un-intrusive - no agents, drivers, or messy scripts. Most customers see immediate value within an hour of installation, and the average pay-back period for a V-Commander installation is under 4 months.

Reduce Your Operational Costs

Virtualization management is a manually intensive process, with a heavy ongoing support cost. V-Commander significantly reduces this manual workload, reducing ongoing costs and freeing up your administrators for more value-add tasks. V-Commander's automatic VM discovery and identification greatly simplifies VM management and troubleshooting, while its extensive reporting and advanced filtering and sorting, provides granular information on any aspect of any VM in the environment.

Continually monitoring the entire environment on behalf of the admin team, V-Commander provides real-time alerts of any "out of process" activity, while our reclamation policy frees administrators from the task of tracking end of life VMs, and ensuring that virtual resources are released for reuse in a timely fashion.

Increase Your Operational Efficiency

The policy based controls and alerts dramatically reduce the amount of ongoing support time required to maintain control and level of service. While at the same time, the detection of sprawl and the ready identification of reclamation candidates, combined with automated policy ensure that resource utilization is optimized. Built-in VM costing and tracking ensures complete cost visibility, improving overall decision making. Continuous monitoring enforces established policies, and identifies and alerts to "out of process" activities allowing continuous improvement.

Improve Your Operational Consistency

V-Commander ensures consistency (while reducing risk and increasing auditability) through a combination of automation and policy-based controls. Policies are implemented against "logical groupings", allowing organizations to logically associate any mix of virtual infrastructure elements, and associate specific policies to it; ensuring that VMs can only run where they are authorized.

For example: VMs with heavy transaction workloads can easily be restricted to more powerful hosts, without the waste of extra infrastructure. In the same way, production infrastructure can be restricted to production VMs, or SOX dependant applications can be isolated to a logical "SOX" zone. And these deployment policies are enforced throughout the life of the VM and not just at the initial deployment.

Embotics EQIP™ Program

When you deploy V-Commander, you can rest assured that it has been designed to fit into existing data center environments. With integrations with Active Directory, SQL Server, SNMP, SMTP and virtualization tools such as VMware VirtualCenter, Lifecycle Manager and Platespin PowerConvert, V-Commander delivers single pane virtualization management, making virtualization easier to control, manage and reduce risk.

The Embotics Quickstart Integration Program (EQIP™), is designed to assist clients integrating the management of the virtual datacenter into their existing datacenter management systems, this on-demand integration offering integrates the VM Inventory of Record with any other enterprise management system that accepts Webservices. (Asset management systems, DMDB's trouble ticket systems etc). This work is available through our professional services organization.