What are my freeware and open source options for managing virtual servers? Companies such as Hyperic and Veeam have released products designed to manage virtual environments. Hyperic, which released its Hyperic HQ for VMware software last year, built capabilities to extend the company’s flagship software into virtual environments. The vendor wrote integrations into VMware’s APIs [...]
Can tools that come bundled with virtualization hypervisors do the job? The consensus is that the management tools that come bundled with VMware or Xen hypervisors won’t cut it in a large virtualization deployment. While the software provided with, say, VMware’s hypervisor enables management of the hypervisor and that environment, industry watchers say the capabilities [...]
Are traditional management tools good enough for virtual servers? Management vendors would answer, “Yes!” and for the most part, they have stepped up their support for virtual environments. From systems management market leaders such as CA to data center management players such as BladeLogic, vendors have partnered with or built APIs into VMware’s tools to [...]
Server virtualization makes it possible to run multiple applications and operating systems on fewer hardware resources, which appeals to many IT managers looking to improve utilization. According to a recent Forrester Research poll, respondents have virtualized about one-quarter of their servers and plan to have close to 50% virtualized in two years. As enterprise IT [...]