Server Consolidation: |
Real-time visibility into under-utilized and over utilized assets
Reduce VM sprawl by identifying inactive VMs and by retiring VMs after the lease
Automatically provisioning VMs with best configurations from availability capacity
Automatically reclaiming the resources after the usage |
IT automation:
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IT service request process workflow automation
Automated provisioning & policy enforcement
Dynamic capacity planning and modeling
Real time performance management & reporting |
Dev & QA solutions: |
Significantly reducing provisioning waiting times with automated self-service portal
Rapid set up and tear down complex development and test configurations
Quickly scale up and down according to load testing needs
Quickly build POC environment for evaluating new technologies |
Training labs
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Rapidly setup and tear down VMs for different training classes
Dynamically create new configurations for new training classes |
Customer demos |
Setup customer demos quickly with VMs in the customer data centers instead of shipping the DVDs or setting up complex configurations
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Customer Support:
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Rapidly recreate application systems to troubleshoot from the released golden images
Maintain a complete library of customer and production system environments for use on demand
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Maintenance & Upgrades
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Automate scheduled maintenance and operations for all VMs
Upgrades to the VMs without any or minimum downtime by upgrading some of the VMs from the cluster at a time
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| ITSM/ITIL best practices |
Best practices can be enforced by integrated and automated policies
Exceptions can be alerted immediately
Users can only create and use the images from approved image library catalog that standardizes the servers footprint that is approved by admins |
