VMware vCenter

The VMware vCenter platform increases efficiency, optimizing process of providing resources, installation of applications and optimization of performance.

2014: Plug-in vCenter Support Assistant 5.5.

On January 21, 2014 the VMware company released vCenter Support Assistant 5.5 - a free plug-in to VMware vCenter Server.

Purpose of a plug-in - assistance in collecting of diagnostic data on infrastructure of VMware vSphere and preparation of the address to technical support.

Support Assistant through a plug-in to vSphere Client provides interaction with requests in technical support service, regardless of type of acquisition of software - on a subscription or on incidents.

vCenter Support Assistant 5.5 received the new functionality connected with automation of process of collecting and the data loading necessary for technical support of VMware. The data created by a diagnostic system are routed under the HTTPS or FTP protocol live in VMware.

2013: A new component - VMware vCenter LogInsight

VMware vCenter LogInsight is a new product of management of magazines of registration of events (a log - logs), it is developed by VMware company especially for cloud computing, the press service of developer reported on June 24, 2013.

Direction

VMware vCenter Log Insight is created especially for the analysis of logs and allows to manage automatically them, to perform processing, search and consolidation of systems given for monitoring, fault recoveries and identifications of the reasons of the arising problems. The product collects unstructured data from different components of IT infrastructure, such as applications, firewalls, network devices, operating systems, storage systems, virtual machines and hosts. VMware vCenter Log Insight supports stream data, creation of requests of a current status and determination in real time of schemes which can be freely converted into any format. Besides, VMware vCenter Log Insight has the necessary performance and scalability for the analysis and visualization of multiterabyte amounts of data.

"Dynamic virtual and cloud environments create large volumes of the structured and unstructured data which need to be analyzed and also to provide their visibility in IT infrastructure — Ramin Sayar, the vice president and the director of management of cloud structures of VMware noted. — Using VMware vCenter Log Insight we could bring to the new level of a possibility of analytics of data. Using a new product, IT administrators and project teams can receive operational reports according to all generated data. Integration of VMware vCenter Log Insight with VMware vCenter Operations allows to simplify fault finding in virtual and cloud environments".

Compliance

VMware vCenter Log Insight completely meets the requirements of the organizations which work in the environment of VMware. The product is compatible to VMware vSphere that gives the chance to use the set panels of monitoring and reports. Integration of VMware vCenter Log Insight with VMware vCenter Operations allows the organizations to reduce and analyze as structured, and unstructured data for continuous process management. VMware vCenter Log Insight can be started directly from VMware vCenter Operations for determination of the reason of the arisen problem in IT infrastructure. VMware vCenter Log Insight can also convert data of logs into indicators of KPI which go to VMware vCenter Operations that administrators could browse detailed information from magazines on a uniform panel of monitoring.

Module

The product is delivered in the form of the virtual module (Virtual Appliance), has the intuitive graphical user interface, a search pane and requests, the preconfigured report forms and panels of monitoring.

2010: The updated model of licensing VMware vCenter: calculation of cost concerning VM

VMware in July, 2010 provided new model of licensing for VMware vCenter product family. Now the cost of licenses will be calculated concerning virtual machines, but not physical "iron". This step is quite logical as more and more companies pass to model of virtualization and "cloud" calculations, and virtual machines become standard unit of measure for deployment of infrastructure. Therefore when licensing is based on "iron", in the course of migration of the virtual machine in the data-center calculation of licenses significantly becomes complicated.

This model provides the best balance between the cost of software and advantages which are got finally by the user. Thanks to an innovation computing environments will not become attached to specific physical media any more - their free movement from one equipment of another, without additional costs will become possible. New licenses will be available since September 1, 2010 only to products of the VMware vCenter family.

For providing a full range of necessary solutions, VMware expanded a software package which will help to automate management of the dynamic virtualized systems.

• The product VMware vCenter Configuration Manager (before EMC Ionix Application Stack Manager and EMC Ionix Server Configuration Manager) - guarantees the high level of compatibility, helps to avoid violations or incorrect configuration changes, allowing to automate "manual" settings of a configuration on virtual and physical servers and jobs.
• The product VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager (before EMC Ionix Application Discovery Manager) - quickly and precisely displays interrelation of applications, thereby facilitating migrations of applications, providing accurate planning of process of consolidation of infrastructure and in the best way virtualizing crucial business applications.

Cost and availability

The products VMware vCenter can be purchased in packets depending on the number of virtual machines. Such licenses for the solutions VMware vCenter AppSpeed, VMware vCenter Chargeback and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager will be available since September 1, 2010, the new model of licensing for VMware vCenter CapacityIQ will become effective at the end of 2010 - the beginning of 2011.

The cost of the products vCenter Application Discovery Manager and vCenter Configuration Manager in calculation for one virtual machine with basic configurations begins from $50000.