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VMware vSphere with

Operations Management

AT A G L A N C E What is vSphere with Operations Management?

vSphere with Operations Management offers the world’s
Virtualizing helps prevent costly infrastructure leading virtualization platform with insight to IT capacity and
sprawl. However, users are plagued by capacity performance. As vSphere environments continue to grow, users
management and performance monitoring require visibility into their workload capacity and performance
challenges as they expand their virtualization to ensure resources are being utilized efficiently and prevent
footprint. emerging performance problems from impacting the business.
VMware vSphere® with Operations Management™
vSphere with Operations Management enables users to get the
is the next iteration of the market-leading most out of the virtualization platform by reclaiming unused
virtualization platform that powers the Fortune capacity, rightsizing virtual machines, improving utilization and
500. With vSphere with Operations Management, increasing consolidation ratios.
users can now use a single pane of glass to Supporting more than 3,000 applications from more than 2,000
optimize capacity and monitor workload
ISV partners, vSphere with Operations Management provides
performance. Customers can meet improved
the broadest choice for virtualizing business-critical applications.
service-level agreements (SLAs), achieve
infrastructure and application availability, and gain
higher resource utilization. How Is vSphere with Operations Management
Used?
KEY BENEFITS • Improve application performance and business continuity
– vSphere with Operations Management supports even the
VMware vSphere with Operations Management has
most resource-intensive applications to guarantee SLAs and
enabled customers to achieve incremental benefits availability. It reduces the cost and complexity of managing
beyond running vSphere alone1: business continuity and disaster recovery with always-on IT
capabilities and layered protection against service outages
• Increase capacity utilization by 40 percent and and data loss.
consolidation ratios by 37 percent
• Simplify IT operations at a lower cost – vSphere with
• Increase hardware savings by 30 percent
Operations Management lowers operational overhead and
• Reduce diagnostics and problem resolution time by dramatically simplifies the management of development,
26 percent quality assurance and production
• Optimize capacity – vSphere with Operations Management
makes it easier to manage and optimize capacity planning.
Unused virtual machines can be reclaimed, and
underprovisioned virtual machines can be rightsized,
helping to make the most efficient use of resources.
• Gain operational insight – vSphere with Operations
Management enables IT to respond to performance trends
proactively. It collects and analyzes performance data,
correlates abnormalities and identifies the root cause of
building performance issues within your virtualized
infrastructure.
vSphere with Operations Management is available in three
editions—Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus—and in
three vSphere with Operations Management Acceleration Kits.

1. Management Insights. “Quantifying the Incremental Value of vCenter Operations

Management Suite for vSphere Customers,” September 2012.

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Key Features and Components of vSphere with • VMware vSphere Storage vMotion enables live migration of
Operations Management virtual-machine disks with no disruption to users, eliminating
the need to schedule application downtime for planned
Virtualization Platform
storage maintenance or storage migrations.
• VMware vSphere Hypervisor Architecture provides a robust,
• VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) provides cost-
production-proven, high-performance virtualization layer. It
effective, automated restart within minutes for all applications
enables multiple virtual machines to share hardware resources
if a hardware or operating system failure occurs.
with performance that can match (and in some cases exceed)
native throughput. • VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) provides continuous
availability of any application in the event of a hardware
• VMware vSphere Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing enables
failure—with no data loss or downtime.
the use of ultra-powerful virtual machines that possess up to
64 virtual CPUs. • VMware vSphere Data Protection™ provides simple, cost-
effective backup and recovery for virtual machines. It is a
• VMware vSphere Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)
newly architected solution based on EMC Avamar technology
allows virtual machines to access shared storage devices
that enables agentless backups with built-in deduplication.
(Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc.) and is a key enabling technology
for other vSphere components such as VMware vSphere • VMware vShield Endpoint™ secures virtual machines with
Storage vMotion®. offloaded antivirus and antimalware solutions without the
need for agents inside the virtual machine.
Operations Management
• Capacity Optimization ensures virtual machines are right-
sized for the most efficient use of virtualized resources.
• vSphere Monitoring uses patented, self-learning analytics to
anticipate and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Operations Visibility provides intuitive operations dashboards
with actionable recommendations to reduce time spent on
diagnostics and problem resolution.
Additional Components Available in Enterprise Edition
• VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™
provides dynamic, hardware-independent load balancing and
resource allocation for virtual machines in a cluster, using
policy-driven automation to reduce management complexity
while meeting SLAs.
• VMware vSphere Distributed Power Management™
automates energy efficiency in vSphere Distributed Resource
Scheduler clusters by continuously optimizing server power
consumption within each cluster.
• VMware vSphere Reliable Memory places critical vSphere
components (such as the hypervisor) into memory regions
vSphere with Operations Management combines the world’s leading virtualization identified as “reliable” on supported hardware. This further
platform with best-in-class management capabilities.
protects components from an uncorrectable memory error.
• VMware vSphere Storage APIs provide integration with • VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions run Hadoop on
supported third-party data protection, multipathing and disk vSphere to achieve higher utilization, reliability and agility.
array solutions. vSphere Big Data Extensions support multiple Hadoop
• VMware vSphere Thin Provisioning provides dynamic distributions and make it seamless for IT to deploy, run and
allocation of shared storage capacity, enabling IT organizations manage Hadoop workloads on one common platform.
to implement a tiered storage strategy while reducing storage
spending by up to 50 percent.
• VMware vSphere vMotion® enables live migration of virtual
machines between servers with no disruption to users or loss
of service, eliminating the need to schedule application
downtime for planned server maintenance.

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Additional Components Available in Enterprise QIC, one of Australia’s largest institutional investment managers,
Plus Edition has used vSphere to virtualize 80 percent of its Microsoft
Windows Server production servers. The company not only
(also inclusive of Enterprise Edition Components listed earlier)
has streamlined its infrastructure; it also has leveraged the
• VMware vSphere Distributed Switch simplifies and enhances backup and recovery capabilities of vSphere to further its
virtual-machine networking in vSphere environments and disaster recovery and business-continuity planning.
enables those environments to use third-party distributed
Read the QIC success story: [Link]
virtual switches.
customer_success/QIC.
• VMware vSphere Storage I/O Control and VMware vSphere
Network I/O Control set storage and network quality-of-
service priorities for guaranteed access to resources.
Additional vSphere Products and Add-Ons
• VMware vSphere Auto Deploy™ performs quick, as-needed VMware vCenter Server™ provides unified management for the
deployment of additional vSphere hosts. When vSphere Auto entire virtual infrastructure and enables many key vSphere
Deploy is running, it pushes out update images, eliminating capabilities, such as live migration. vCenter Server can manage
patching and the need to schedule patch windows. thousands of virtual machines across multiple locations and
streamlines administration with features such as rapid
• VMware vSphere Host Profiles help IT administrators
provisioning and automated policy enforcement.
simplify host deployment and compliance.
• VMware vSphere Storage DRS™ automates load balancing Note: vCenter Server is a required element of a complete
by using storage characteristics to determine the best place vSphere implementation and is licensed separately on a per
for a virtual machine’s data to reside, both when it is created instance basis.
and when it is used over time.
• VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage reduces the steps Support and Professional Services
in the selection of storage resources by grouping storage VMware offers global support and subscription (SnS)
according to a user-defined policy. services to all vSphere customers. For customers requiring
• VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache virtualizes server-side additional services, VMware also offers professional services
flash providing a high performance read cache layer that engagements on best practices and getting started with your
dramatically lowers application latency. vSphere deployment, both directly and through an extensive
• vSphere App HA adds a new level of availability that allows network of certified professionals: [Link]
vSphere to detect and recover from application or OS failure. services/.
Supports the most common applications on the market and
can extend to the VMware ecosystem through its APIs. How to Buy
To purchase vSphere with Operations Management, use the
Customer Success Stories online VMware Partner Locator to find an authorized reseller in
Marshall University, the oldest public institution of higher your area: [Link]
learning in West Virginia, has leveraged vSphere to extend You can also visit the online VMware store to determine which
the life of an overcrowded data center while reducing IT kit or edition of vSphere with Operations Management is right
expenditures and accelerating server provisioning time. for your organization: [Link]
Read the Marshall University success story: [Link] datacenter-products/.
[Link]/go/customer_success/marshall_u. If you are an existing vSphere or VMware Infrastructure™
EGIS Nyrt., one of the leading pharmaceutical manufacturers in customer, visit the vSphere Upgrade Center to determine the
the Central Eastern European region, has used vSphere to appropriate upgrade path for your organization: [Link]
consolidate the number of servers managed and has virtualized [Link]/products/vsphere/upgrade-center/.
its business-critical applications to help improve performance For organizations that are new to virtualization, VMware offers
and uptime. solution bundles called vSphere with Operations Management
Read the EGIS success story: [Link] Acceleration Kits that combine a vSphere with Operations
customer_success/EGIS_Nyrt. Management edition with vCenter Server. [Link]
com/products/vsphere-operations-management/[Link].

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VMware vCloud Suite

Building on VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus Edition™, VMware
vCloud® Suite delivers a complete, integrated cloud infrastructure
suite that simplifies IT operations while delivering the best
SLAs for all applications. vCloud Suite includes the entire set
of cloud infrastructure capabilities: virtualization, software-
defined data center services, policy-based provisioning,
disaster recovery, application and operations management.

Find Out More

For information or to purchase VMware products, call
877-4-VMWARE (outside North America, +1-650-427-5000),
visit [Link] or search online for an
authorized reseller. For detailed product specifications and
system requirements, refer to the vSphere documentation.

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