Monitoring complex IT infrastructure
February 2011
IT in Manufacturing
Latest APC solution enables virtualisation and cloud computing through integration with VMware vSphere.
APC by Schneider Electric has introduced the integration of InfraStruxure Operations with VMware vSphere to enable vendor-neutral inventory management, real-time analysis and automated resolution recommendations. The integration ensures that VMware vSphere 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 Chris Hanley, VP marketing and sales process, APC. “VMware customers deploying virtual clusters now have the necessary insight into how their virtual machines relate to physical servers and their location. InfraStruxure Operations automatically migrates virtual machines to healthy host environments, enabling customers to maintain their service level agreements.”
Through the integration, InfraStruxure Operations couples events from the physical infrastructure layer with information from the VMware 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.
“As data centre infrastructures increase in complexity with virtualisation and cloud computing, it becomes even more important for the IT manager to have real-time visibility into the health of the physical layer via software,” says Michelle Bailey, IDC’s research VP for enterprise platforms and data centre trends. “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.”
For more information contact Pierre Lintzer, APC, +27 (0)11 465 5414, [email protected], www.apc.com
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