EMC Simplifies VMware Management

EMC introduced two new applications designed to ease the management of VMWare environments at the VMworld 2010 conference today.

The first, the beta program for EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager 2.0, is designed to unify and make service-driven the management of network, compute and storage layers. EMC says Ionix UIM 2.0 will empower companies to more easily make the transition from physical to virtual to private cloud infrastructures by unifying and automating the management of Vblock Infrastructure Packages, an element of the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition formed by Cisco, EMC, and VMware.

Ionix UIM 2.0 automates more than 60 discrete operations that would normally be performed manually through disparate element-management tools. According to EMC, configuring the underlying infrastructure to support a small VMware cluster can take up to 10 times longer done through element managers than with the new solution.

In addition, today EMC released a portfolio of services and solutions for VMware View 4.5 designed to help customers accelerate deployment of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments by centralizing the management of desktops and deploying them virtually.

Specifically, EMC’s new solutions for VMware View 4.5 include enterprise flash drives with EMC Fast Cache capabilities that the company says can reduce cost of storage by 60  percent and space/power requirements by 90 percent, as well as integrated EMC Avamar data deduplication backup software and EMC storage systems. Other new solutions include an end-to-end security suite and EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) for VMware vCenter, which EMC says extends the usability and flexibility of VMWare clients and data stores.