UC4 AUTOMATED VIRTUALIZATION Intelligent Service Automation for Physical and Virtual Environments

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1 Fr mre infrmatin abut UC4 prducts please visit UC4 AUTOMATED VIRTUALIZATION Intelligent Service Autmatin fr Physical and Virtual Envirnments

2 Intrductin This whitepaper describes hw the UC4 Autmatin Engine integrates with virtual envirnments. With this integratin, UC4 Sftware has enabled custmers t manage management tasks such as Deply Virtual Machines, Pwer ON/Off, Create Snapsht, and thers. Using the UC4 Autmatin Engine as the central administratin tl, hypervisr tasks can nw be part f the IT prcesses and part f the IT Husekeeping strategy. Tday s Situatin...3 Challenges fr IT...3 Impact n the Data Center Envirnment...3 Slutin fr Virtual Envirnments...4 Benefits f the UC4 Autmatin Engine...5 Cnclusin...6

3 Tday s Situatin Virtual envirnments have a lt f IT infrastructure challenges: Increases in Cmplexity Increased Management Requirements Sftware Cmpliance Issues Cnfiguratin Management Prblems Security and Risk Expsure Uncntrlled Csts Service and Perfrmance Prblems Staffing Issues Lack f Qualified Persnnel Internal Management Issues Lack f Skills Skill Requirements Mre Platfrms Different Vendrs Rare Specialists in the Market Errr Handling Lack f Skills Cmplex Envirnments Organizatins ften implement virtualizatin as an integral part f a cnslidatin prject f physical servers in an attempt t reduce csts. Buzzwrds such as Green IT, time-based cntrl, event-based management, applicatin virtualizatin, and dynamic prvisining are additinal tpics in the virtual envirnment market, and there are real business advantages fr autmatin f IT prcesses, integratin, and rchestratin in these areas. Challenges fr IT Virtualizatin vendrs are autmating and rchestrating nly the areas cntrlled within the virtual envirnment. There are n management capabilities f IT prcesses between physical and virtual envirnments. Because these prcesses are still running separately in physical and virtual envirnments, s integratin int enterprise wide prcesses with existing management tls is nt pssible. Dependencies between standard applicatins, databases, platfrms and legacy applicatins are nt slved with these tls. Impact n the Data Center Envirnment Lack f this integratin int enterprise-wide prcesses has the fllwing impacts: IT prcesses run with manual interventin. Risk that prcesses are running incrrectly, run ut-f-time, r withut errr handling is increased. N definitin f what t run and where t run. Cmpliance n IT prcesses des nt exist. N supprt fr Enterprise Wrklads. N integratin int existing data center and Run Bk Autmatin (IT Husekeeping).

4 Slutin fr Virtual Envirnments The mst effective way t integrate Hypervisrs int the IT prcesses is using an enterprise-wide autmatin tl. The UC4 Autmatin Engine ffers a Virtual Envirnment Management Integratin based n a UC4 Agent which enables cmpanies t manage all tasks in the physical and virtual wrld. Autmatin f virtual machines and hypervisrs. Autmatin f platfrms in the virtual machines. Integratin int existing IT Husekeeping prcesses Backup Acceleratin with end-t-end management f backups. Event Based Handling wrks with events (errrs, warnings and threshlds) t handle tday s manual interventins autmatically. Enfrce Prcess Dependencies tasks in the Run Bk have dependencies that require manual interventin. Integratin f applicatins (SAP, Oracle, DWH, Legacy Mainframe Applicatins) running in physical and virtual envirnments. Integratin f platfrms (Mainframe, UNIX, NSK) running in physical envirnments r different virtual envirnments (Slaris, AIX, HP-UX).

5 Benefits f the UC4 Autmatin Engine Cntrl Businesses need the right resurces at the right time. Hypervisr ften has t deal with running Virtual Machines that are nt used anymre such as servers yu dn t need during night. UC4 can use functins such as Pwer On/Off, Standby and suspend t shutdwn virtual machines unless there are IT prcesses dependent n these virtual machines. This slutin benefits the business by nt nly reducing resurces (Green IT), it is als has license advantages allwing IT t explit these licenses fr ther virtual machines. Backup Virtual machines need the same backup as physical envirnments. Often there is a need fr snapshts f virtual machines dependent n the running prcesses (e.g. Batchjb run, Database peratin). If the snapshts are dne withut a dependency check f the running prcesses, Snapshts culd be incnsistent. The UC4 Autmatin Engine is the right tl fr a backup strategy and fr the check f the dependencies n the prcess level acrss bth envirnments (e.g. integratins with TSM). It is easy t integrate backups and snapshts at the right time with UC4 because f time-based, event-based, and calendarbased initiatin ptins. Prvisining Businesses are using the prvisining ptins fr creating and clning virtual machines t get the right resurces at the right time. The mst difficult questin fr administratrs is when is the right time t clne virtual machines. The right time is always befre the need is identified in the IT prcess. Mnth-End Clse prcesses run at the end f the mnth. That des nt always mean the last wrking day f the mnth. This is the time when there is a need fr additinal resurces. The need depends n the status f the running prcess. One example is a data warehuse data uplad with an ETL Tl. This prcess will wait fr cmpletin f the data uplad and then cntinue with the next steps in the wrkflw. This culd be the same time every mnth, but prcesses in the data center have traditinally been created manually. T mediate the issue dynamically yu can prvisin virtual machines when the running IT prcesses in data center require them.

6 On tp f the Prvisining ptin there is always a need fr mre resurces during utilizatin peaks. UC4 enables yu t use the perfrmance data lw level (Perfrmance Mnitring) r predictive n a high level with the UC4 Decisin slutin (Perfrmance f the Applicatin n the virtual machine) t migrate virtual machines r add mre CPU and/r memry t yur virtual machines. Cnclusin Virtual envirnments and the UC4 Autmatin Engine cmplement each ther as slutins fr the physical and virtual wrld. Virtual Envirnment Management needs mre than a virtual envirnment view. Integratin f physical envirnments and applicatins is still a key part f the success f data centers. Integrating bth wrlds is still an area f cncern fr IT departments. The virtualizatin market is just beginning t realize the benefits f virtualizatin with cnslidatin prjects currently underway. The real pwer f virtualizatin will be in the area f applicatin virtualizatin. UC4 Intelligent Service Autmatin ffers a cmplete slutin fr enterprise-wide prcesses and IT husekeeping autmatin. The strengths f batch jb scheduling, data center autmatin, applicatin integratin, and management services are nw available fr virtual envirnments. With the cmbinatin f the strengths f virtual envirnments and UC4, yu are clser t the gal f the Dynamic Data Center. Abut UC4 Sftware UC4 Sftware is the leading prvider f intelligent service autmatin slutins that enable rganizatins t cnnect IT service delivery with business demand. Cmbining real-time intelligence with just-in-time executin ensures custmers can autmate prcesses that traverse n-premises, virtualized and clud cmputing platfrms at lw risk and cst. Mre than 1,700 cmpanies wrldwide have successfully enhanced applicatin prcessing perfrmance and imprved IT efficiency using UC4 s business acceleratin slutins. Custmers include American Suzuki Mtr Crpratin, Cadbury, Cmmerzbank, ebay, Eastman Kdak, General Electric, Mattel, McGraw Hill, Panasnic, Rbert Bsch, Sun Micrsystems, Symantec, T-Systems, and Verizn. Cntact UC4 Sftware In the US at (877) (tll-free) In Eurpe at [email protected] Cpyright 2010 UC4 Sftware GmbH (UC4), all rights reserved. The materials in this publicatin are prtected by cpyright and/r ther intellectual prperty laws. Any unauthrized use f the materials in this publicatin can result in an infringement f these laws. Unless expressly permitted, the cpying f infrmatin r dcuments frm this publicatin, in any frm, withut the prir written permissin f UC4 is prhibited.