APC offers PRO pack to automatically migrate virtual machines to healthy host environments through Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
APC by Schneider Electric has introduced the integration of InfraStruXure Operations with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to enable vendor-neutral inventory management, real-time analysis and resolution recommendations. The new PRO enabled management pack ensures that Virtual Machine Manager is aware of critical physical infrastructure alarms and events, including power, cooling, security and environment, and can execute corrective actions to move virtual machines to non-impacted areas within the data centre.
“A comprehensive view of the physical infrastructure allows companies to manage and monitor an increasingly complex IT environment, including the deployment and management of virtual machines,” says Dave Guidette, enterprise systems, services and software, APC. “Microsoft customers deploying virtual clusters and adopting the APC PRO pack now have the necessary insight into how their virtual machines relate to physical servers and their location. The APC PRO pack automatically migrates virtual machines to healthy host environments, enabling customers to maintain their service level agreements.”
InfraStruXure Operations integrates through Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager into the Virtual Machine Manager by use of a PRO pack connector. The APC PRO pack couples events from the physical infrastructure layer with information from the Microsoft virtual machines. This integration translates critical physical infrastructure events into server impact analysis, identifying how events will impact the host machines in a virtualised environment. The result of the impact analysis will prompt a migration of the virtual machines away from the affected hosts onto unaffected host servers.
Compatible with System Center Operations Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, InfraStruXure Operations is a function of the APC InfraStruXure Management Software portfolio, which allows companies to take an holistic view of data centre physical infrastructure, including traditional monitoring and control of power, cooling, security and environment, as well as predictive simulation and stranded capacity, equipment age and health, current and historic power usage effectiveness (PUE), energy use and costs.
InfraStruXure Operations enables vendor-agnostic inventory management with real-time device failures, presents data shown within the data centre physical layout and provides recommendations on how to resolve issues. Additionally, a location-based drill down provides a structured overview of data centre locations from a global to local view down to single assets and the PUE calculator supplies information on daily utilisation of energy.
“Microsoft is pleased to support the integration of InfraStruXure Operations with Virtual Machine Manager,” says Jim Schwartz, director of solutions marketing, virtualisation, Microsoft. “The APC PRO pack provides a new level of control and availability to host servers running virtualised environments, allowing customers to view and manage the health and criticality levels of their network infrastructure.”
For more information contact Pierre Lintzer, APC, +27 (0)11 465 5414, pierre.lintzer@apcc.com, www.apc.com
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