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APC Offers PRO Pack to Automatically Migrate Virtual Machines to Healthy Host Environments Through Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
New InfraStruxure® Operations PRO Pack Provides Insight into How the Virtual Machine Relates to the Physical Environment
LAS VEGAS, April 20, 2010 – (Microsoft Management Summit 2010 Booth #728) — APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, today introduced the integration of InfraStruxure® Operations with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to enable vendor-neutral inventory management, real-time analysis and resolution recommendations. The new PRO-enabled management pack ensures that Virtual Machine Manager is aware of critical physical infrastructure alarms and events, including power, cooling, security and environment, and can execute corrective actions to move virtual machines to non-impacted areas within the data center.
“A comprehensive view of the physical infrastructure allows companies to manage and monitor an increasingly complex IT environment, including the deployment and management of virtual machines,” said Dave Guidette, senior vice president, Enterprise Systems, Services & Software, APC. “Microsoft customers deploying virtual clusters and adopting the APC PRO pack now have the necessary insight into how their virtual machines relate to physical servers and their location. The APC PRO pack automatically migrates virtual machines to healthy host environments, enabling customers to maintain their Service Level Agreements.”
InfraStruxure Operations integrates through Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager into the Virtual Machine Manager by use of a PRO pack connector. The APC PRO pack couples events from the physical infrastructure layer with information from the Microsoft virtual machines. This integration translates critical physical infrastructure events into server impact analysis, identifying how events will impact the host machines in a virtualized environment. The result of the impact analysis will prompt a migration of the virtual machines away from the affected hosts onto unaffected host servers.
Compatible with System Center Operations Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, InfraStruxure Operations is a function of the APC InfraStruxure Management Software portfolio, which allows companies to take a holistic view of data center physical infrastructure, including traditional monitoring and control of power, cooling, security and environment, as well as predictive simulation and stranded capacity, equipment age and health, current and historic power usage effectiveness (PUE), energy use and costs.
InfraStruxure Operations enables vendor-agnostic inventory management with real-time device failures, presents data shown within the data center physical layout and provides recommendations on how to resolve issues. Additionally, a location-based drill-down view provides a structured overview of data center locations from a global to local view down to single assets, and the PUE calculator supplies information on daily utilization of energy.
“Microsoft is pleased to support the integration of InfraStruxure Operations with Virtual Machine Manager,” said Jim Schwartz, director of solutions marketing, Virtualization, Microsoft Corp. “The new APC PRO pack provides a new level of control and availability to host servers running virtualized environments, allowing our customers to view and manage the health and criticality levels of their network infrastructure from a single pane of glass.”
APC InfraStruxure Management Software is also compatible with Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager 2007. The APC PRO Pack will be available Q3 2010 via download from APC’s website. For more information on APC please visit www.apc.com or call 800-877-4080.
About APC by Schneider Electric
APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in critical power and cooling services, provides industry leading product, software and systems for home, office, data center and factory floor applications. Backed by the strength, experience, and wide network of Schneider Electric’s Critical Power & Cooling Services, APC delivers well planned, flawlessly installed and maintained solutions throughout their lifecycle. Through its unparalleled commitment to innovation, APC delivers pioneering, energy efficient solutions for critical technology and industrial applications. In 2007, Schneider Electric acquired APC and combined it with MGE UPS Systems to form Schneider Electric’s Critical Power & Cooling Services Business Unit, which recorded 2008 revenue of €2,6 billion (including APC-MGE sales of $3.7 billion) and employed 12,000 people worldwide. APC solutions include uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), precision cooling units, racks, physical security and design and management software, including APC's InfraStruxure® architecture, the industry’s most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution. Schneider Electric, with 114,000 employees and operations in 100 countries, achieved sales of €18,3 billion in 2008.
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