AD3500

VMware Management Essentials: VDM, ARC, and Compliance Analytics for VMware-enabled Data Centers

Managing the new VMware-enabled data center requires a real-time understanding of virtual, physical, and Intra-VM relationships and behaviors to automate key processes such as configuration, root cause, storage resource, and compliance management. Modeling behaviors and relationships between physical and virtual domains enables root-cause analytics to pinpoint failures and determine whether virtual or physical servers or networks are to blame. In addition, by passively 'listening' to application traffic across the VMware Virtual Switch (vSwitch), data center applications can benefit from dynamic, agentless visibility into virtual relationships. The end result establishes dependencies of virtual machines to one another in the delivery of business application services and for the construction of data protection and disaster recovery plans for products such as VMware Site Recovery Manager. This also enables backup teams to configure VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) to be application-dependency driven, assuring time-consistent images of data stores based on the latest VM-VM application dependencies. Finally, effective storage resource management requires clear capacity and provisioning visibility across virtual and physical systems. Learn how EMC's management solutions can help automate virtual operations with application dependency mapping, model-based management and storage virtualization.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Bob Quillin( EMCCorporation )

Bob Quillin is the Senior Director of Product Marketing for EMC's Resource Management Software Group, responsible for the Data Center Automation product line including ControlCenter, Smarts, and Application Discovery Manager. An industry veteran who brings over 23 years of network, systems, and application management experience, he joins EMC from the nLayers acquisition where he was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Product Management. Previously, Bob served as Vice President of Marketing at Packeteer, Network Physics, and Manage.com, leading product marketing & management, product strategy, integrated marketing, corporate communications and channel development. Bob holds a BA in Mathematical Science from the Johns Hopkins University and an MSEE from George Washington University.