I was recently over at the “Offical VMware Virtualization Group” at Linkedin and a person was asking about VM Lifecycle Management and how they could prevent VMsprawl in their datacenter.
I have been working with VMware Virtualization for the past few years and the topic of VM Lifecycle Management has become much more prevalent over the last 6 months. One of the most confusing things is that VMware named their provisioning system “VMware Lifecycle Manager” when it is really all about getting VM’s into the infrastructure. It’s not so much about managing those VM’s, preventing VM sprawl, performance monitoring of ESX/individual VMs, visibility, control and audibility.
VMware did acquire a company called Dunes Technologies which played in the Lifecycle Management game. VMware is now releasing the Dunes product as VMware vCenter Orchestrator. It really concentrates on drag and drop automation and orchestration. This in combination with vSphere will help solve some of the lifecycle management issues; however, there is still the need for a 3rd party to get total control.
Check out the VMware Monitoring page at uptime software and you will see how up.time 5 can greatly assist in getting control back in your virtual infrastructure. Better virtual management and performance, deep workload profiling, VM density optimization reporting, tracking of vMotion, VMsprawl prevention and consolidation planning tools. All in one easy to install application that not only will help with your virtual machines but your physical boxes as well.
Tags: Lifecycle Management, VMsprawl, VMware, vSphere
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