Self-Service Provisioning

Feature

Benefit

• Enable self-service and accelerate the delivery of IT services by giving consumers direct access to customizable service catalogs and virtual assets through role-based web portals.
• Provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) drastically reducing provisioning and approval times.
• Self-service consumers no longer hoard services as they can be more readily consumed.

• VMs, complex services, and multi-tier applications can all be requested and deployed automatically based on enforceable policies.

• Enable rapid provisioning and significantly reduce waiting times.

• Provide delivered services consistently through policy-based governance.
• Allow administrators and operators to scale further, leading to higher service to admin ratio.

• Recommend or automate workload placement based on business, platform and capacity policies.

• Allow for the rapid consumption and decommissioning of services, optimizing resource utilization and eliminating VM sprawl.
• Continuous discovery, tracking and inventory of all virtual assets.

• Provide delivered services consistently.
• Allow administrators and operators to scale further, leading to higher service to admin ratio.

• Give portal consumers an abstracted view from the underlying infrastructure.
• Provide visibility of the consumer’s services.
• Give portal consumers no indication of the hypervisor their service runs on.

• Allow DevOps consumers to test duplicate workloads that would otherwise cause network and domain conflicts if deployed in the traditional manor.

• Enable governance and enforcement of resources, and encourage consumers to treat your cloud resources as a library.

• Snapshots are a powerful tool, but they can also quickly get away from you causing resource and SLA issues.
• Snapshot Management is critical if you are going to extend this service to consumers.

• Critical information that is required to justify additional resources or to audit existing service usage.

• Conditions end consumers that virtual assets are not free, curbing excessive consumption.

• Create a secure, multi-tenant virtual environment with multiple organizations sharing the same infrastructure.
• Deliver a shared services environment, yielding benefits from economies of scale.

• Empower self-service consumers to perform VM management tasks, power on/off, drift analysis, etc., without requiring vCenter accounts.
• Increase accountability and curb consumption through integrated cost visibility.

• Allow self-service consumers to use the same account they use elsewhere in the enterprise.
• Leverage existing AD and LDAP groups to ensure existing security group definition is carried forward to Embotics vCommander™ administration and self-service portal access.

• Open web services-based SOAP APIs for bi-directional integration; for example, CMDB, Service Desks, ITAM, IPAM, and for hooks that enable workflows to integrate with third-party systems.

• Brand the self-service portal with your own logos and brand colors to match and integrate with existing company portal systems.

• Increase accountability and curb consumption through integrated cost visibility.

• Ensure governance and control: roles-based access, standardized service catalog ensures build consistency, and IT governance ensures configuration control and audit readiness.

• Eliminate manual, error prone processes through Embotics vCommander’s workflow and policy driven automation.

• Accelerate the delivery of IT services: publish standardized offerings to end users through a customizable service catalog.
• Automate the deployment of VMs while drastically reducing provisioning and approval times.

• Increase accountability and curb consumption through integrated cost visibility.

• Allow provisioning of services to the most cost-effective platform based on business requirements.
• Integration with VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).