Managing VMWare White Paper

Managing VMWare - Migration / Operations / Security

VMware changes the systems management paradigm. Most importantly, the virtual model means that systems management approaches – and tools – can no longer assume a static environment or one tied to physical hardware. More specifically, there are challenges related to migration, monitoring and security.

In today’s data center the business benefits of deploying VMware range from saving time, reducing energy consumption, and improving disaster recovery capabilities. Like any technology in the data center, VMware must be managed. VMware has garnered the lion’s share of the server virtualization market in part because VMware, Inc. provides very good management tools for VMware. For many VMware administrators, the VMware tools such as VirtualCenter are up to the task of managing VMware.

For IT operations, the story is much different. Managing VMware is only part of the story. Instead, VMware introduces a new paradigm that alters the very way that IT operations has managed their infrastructures and applications. In doing so, it has become apparent that the old approaches to systems management are not up to the task.

This paper discusses the challenges introduced to systems management as the result of VMware. In addition, it describes NetIQ’s approach to Operational VMware Management, an approach that addresses the hybrid physical / virtual environment.

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