Virtualize IT for VMWare CTP 3 Release of Virtualization Management Announced by INSYSTEK

    CTP 3 release for the new Virtualize IT™ for VMWare management and reporting tools is now available. To aquire in the program please visit www.insystek.com/community. Using INSYSTEK's Virtualize IT™ technology, customers will be able to find 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.

    Alex Turner, president and CEO at INSYSTEK, stated: "We are very excited to make available the CTP 3 Release for our newest VMWare management and reporting tool. VMWare is a great platform for virtualization and in combination with Virtualize IT™ for VMWare will offer tremendous benefits to administrators. There is clear need for centralized virtualization management and reporting tools that allow access to both the physical and virtual environments."

    The new technology offers the ability to easily manage complex virtual infrastructures from the same console used to manage the physical one. In addition to the Agentless desktop and server management features in their existing solution the Virtualize IT™.

Among the features we can find:

    * 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 mediums, offering access to control and configure many 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 along with the possibility to entirely 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 amplifies 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 functions.
    * 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 errors. Quickly reveal servers for consolidation.
    * Reports - Virtualize IT™ technology extends INSYSTEK's Crystal Reports features to include all VirtualCenter resources in additional to accumulated reports that offer a holistic view of the Physical to Virtual environment. Please visit http://www.insystek.com/VirtualizationManagement.htm for more information.