Enterasys Rolls Out Data Center Manager

According to Ray Suarez, Enterasys director of product management, this latest offering from Enterasys is primarily intended to help IT organizations prevent virtual machine sprawl across the network. With this new tool, IT organizations can holistically manage servers, networks and storage assets. By keeping track of where virtual machines are on the network, the Enterasys Data Manager helps IT organizations make sure that the applications on those virtual machines get allocated the amount of bandwidth and storage access they require.

Suarez said the Enterasys Data Center Manager software is designed to be compatible with evolving Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) and Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) standards that will play critical roles in the ongoing evolution of enterprise computing. The key issue, says Suarez, is that IT organizations will more easily be able to deliver classes of IT services once cumbersome approaches based on spanning tree protocols are essentially eliminated.

The current version of the Enterasys Data Center Manager supports VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix virtual machine environments, and the company is looking into providing Red Hat KVM support as well.