INSYSTEK Promises Virtually Limitless Infrastructure Management

If you’ve ever questioned the scalability of your existing VMware management software, you might want to check out INSYSTEK which claims to offer a “virtually limitless” management solution. As the company tested the latest version of their virtualization management and reporting solution, Virtualize IT for VMware, INSYSTEK said they were able to successfully manage over 6000 virtual machines from a single console.

Using this product, the company said customers will be able to discover and map virtual environments, create virtual machines, track and manage physical and virtual relationships, and automate the lifecycle of a large number of virtual servers and desktops.

“We are extremely pleased to provide administrators the ability to manage large numbers of virtual machines from a single console” said Alex Turner, president and CEO at INSYSTEK. “We believe this will provide a definite boost to the adoption of large scale VMWare Infrastructures. There is clear need for enterprise scale virtualization management and reporting tools that allow access to both the physical and virtual environments.” INSYSTEK anticipates the ability to support a virtually unlimited number of ESX Servers, virtual machines, and guests in the production release of Virtualize IT for VMWare.

Features of Virtualize IT include:

• Common user interface – Manage VMWare ESX Servers, VirtualCenter, Windows Desktops and Servers from a single console. Virtualize IT is the connection between physical and virtual environments, providing access to control and configure multiple VMWare Servers and Windows hosts at the same time in one view.

• Discovery, Link and Manage – Auto Discover virtual infrastructure systems and resources and dynamically link physical to virtual machine relationships. Deploy software applications, patches, and critical updates. Inventory and audit both physical systems and virtual resources for full hardware and software configurations and changes.

• Virtualize IT wizards – Wizards automate many administrative functions including the ability to completely replicate inventoried physical systems as image ready virtual machines in a single easy to use wizard for hot site, backups, disaster recovery planning or desktop and server migration.

• Audit and Track – Virtualize IT technology extends the already comprehensive inventory model for the complete inventory of virtual machines, resource pools and physical servers. The extended model includes all INSYSTEK’s baseline configuration

  audit and historical tracking features.

• System monitoring – Continuously monitor physical servers and virtual machine for availability and utilization from a single interface. Set five separate alarms levels for hundreds of performance stats for physical and virtual systems and resources to manage and prevent problems. Quickly identify servers for consolidation.

• Reports – Virtualize IT technology extends INSYSTEK’s Crystal Reports features to include all VirtualCenter resources in additional to combined reports that provide a holistic view of the Physical to Virtual environment.