Sun Microsystems has unveiled the Sun xVM Ops Center, a datacenter automation tool for complete management of heterogeneous global IT environments.
Regarded as a critical part of Sun's virtualization portfolio, Sun xVM Ops Center has the ability to reduce datacenter management complexity by combining a range of lifecycle management functionality into an all-in-one tool.
According to a Sun release, the new solution Sun xVM Ops Center helps simplify discovery, monitoring, operating system provisioning, comprehensive updates and patch management, firmware updates, and hardware management from power up to production in cross-platform Linux and Solaris Operating System-based x86 and SPARC environments. As a result, it will allow enterprises to streamline their data center operations, helping to lower costs and more easily manage rapid growth, data center consolidation and compliance requirements.
"Business requirements that demand tremendous growth are creating more datacenter complexity, as administrators need to manage increasing volumes of data, applications, and people on the network, as well as the rapid proliferation of servers and guest operating systems," said Steve Wilson, vice president, xVM, Sun Microsystems.
"Through Sun xVM Ops Center's unique combination of asset discovery, inventory tracking, operating system provisioning, firmware updating and patch management capabilities, customers can automate a number of tasks on a global scale to improve their time to market and productivity to meet ever demanding service level agreements."
Designed to scale for demanding HPC and globally distributed IT environments, Sun xVM Ops Center will help customers to automate their data centers and manage thousands of assets simultaneously. Through automated monitoring of assets on a network, and implementation of upgrades and patches for operating systems, Sun xVM Ops Center automates routine system administrator tasks in the data center.
As part of the company's commitment to the open source community, Sun said it will also release the source code used to build Sun's xVM Ops Center to the OpenxVM.org community under the GNU General Public License version three (GPLv3). |
