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Overview

VMware and BMC Software are collaborating to deliver a common vision that will provide enterprise environments with consolidated workloads and enhanced scalability at lower total costs using VMware software and BMC Software's leading enterprise management solutions.

"Embracing VMware Infrastructure 3 with our Business Service Management strategy is critical for customers to be successful in mainstreaming virtualization technologies within the datacenter.  As more customers move in this direction, the combination of VMware’s automation products and BMC’s Service Automation products allow customers to automate critical IT processes spanning the physical and virtual datacenter,” said Kia Behnia, chief corporate architect for BMC Software.

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Integrated Management Solutions

VMware partners with BMC to deliver complete enterprise management solutions to meet the physical and virtual management needs of our customers. The table below lists currently available products and solutions and highlights their benefits.
Product Management Capability Works with Customer Benefits
BMC Performance Manager for Virtual Servers v2.4
 Operations ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x,  v3.5  
  • Proactively manage the health and performance of both virtual and physical distributed computing environments
  • Centralized monitoring and management of VI3, as well as the applications/services that VI3 is supporting
BMC Capacity Management Essentials v1.1 Operations ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 and ESXi v3.5
  • Rapidly identifies virtualization candidates for consolidation
  • Automatically identifies underutilized and over utilized IT resources
BMC Performance Assurance for Virtual Servers v7.4 Operations ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 and ESXi v3.5
  • Facilitates the planning and execution of consolidation activities and manages virtual server performance and capacity after consolidation
BMC Discovery v1.4 Change & Configuration ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 and ESXi v3.5
  • Dynamically discover and visualize virtual and physical infrastructures and the business services they deliver
BMC Bladelogic Operations Manager v7.4.3 Change & Configuration ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5
  • Bring new virtual servers and applications on-line in hours by orchestrating the initial provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes across departments/silos.
  • Automatically creates, approves, verifies and closes corresponding change requests related to virtual images enabling the same auditable tracking and change control functions that enterprises typically require for the management of physical computers
BMC Run Book Automation Platform v2.5/BMC Service Automation v1.0 Service Delivery

ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 and ESXi v3.5
  • Automate common virtual and physical tasks from self-service request and deployment of VMs for users to integration with change mgmt processes and applications

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