VMware

Overview

CA and VMware have a collaborative relationship that has enabled CA to bring to market solutions like CA Advanced Systems Management (CA ASM) and CA Recovery Management for backup, high availability, continuous data protection and disaster recovery across a virtualized IT environment.

VMware is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. The world's largest companies use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands.

CA is considered by VMware customers as a critical solution provider for managing virtual environments. VMware customers look to CA to provide meaningful business value and extend their mission critical applications. We provide joint CA/VMware solutions that help customers meet the challenge of building, deploying, managing, and securing their complex environments.

For VMware platforms, CA ASM supports management of VMware VirtualCenter (2.x), VMware ESX (2.5.x, 3.0.x, 3.5.x) and VMware GSX (3.x).

CA has established basic guidelines for supporting Unicenter software in a VMware environment. View their Support Statement for VMWare.

Press Releases

Qualified Software

  • Backup Compatibility Guide
    Lists backup software packages and versions compatible with VMware ESX that VMware or its partners have tested.

White Paper

  • Vmware and CA: Working Together to Maximize Business Value of Your IT Investments
    VMware and CA have collaborated to develop integrated solutions that enable your organization to effectively deploy, optimize, manage and secure physical and virtual systems across the enterprise
  • VMware and CA: Making the Most of Virtualization
    A key consideration for any server consolidation initiative is to ensure you are making the best use of resources and that critical applications running on virtual machines receive the right allocation of shared resources. This white paper discusses the challenges, opportunities, and benefits associated with virtualization.

Integrated Management Solutions

VMware partners with CA 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
CA ASM r11.2 Operations

ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 and ESXi 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

CA Data Center Automation r1.0

Service Delivery ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 and ESXi v3.5
  • Control complexity and automate processes in the data center to become more adaptive and agile
  • Manage change processes; ensure configuration compliance and dynamically provision servers (virtual or physical) and applications based on business need.
Unicenter Patch Management r11.2 Change & Configuration v3.0.x
  • Proactively manage the entire patch life cycle
  • Automate and control the patching of VM guests and VMware apps (Workstation, ESX) using a common UI.
CA IT Process Management r5.5 Service Delivery

ESX v2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 and ESXi v3.5
  • Automate repetitive, manual tasks, reducing errors and allowing IT to get things done more quickly.

CA Recovery Management

CA ARCserve® Backup R12

 Business Continuity ESX 2.5.x, v3.0.x, v3.5 and ESXi v3.5
  • Reduce Business Risk Makes DR possible when it would otherwise not be feasible

VMware on CA.com

  • CA Advanced Systems Management
    CA ASM centrally manages virtual and clustering technologies from VMware, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Sun, and Veritas to name a few. CA ASM lets you visualize virtual resources as clearly as physical resources. Using a patent pending proprietary functionality called ‘Dynamic Resource Brokering’, CA ASM optimizes virtual machine resources, improves performance and server availability – in direct response to changing business conditions through intelligent policy-driven automation. All of which ensures service levels are met while better managing risks, capital investments and delivering operational efficiency.
  • CA ARCserve® Backup
    Help ensure that you sustain an optimized, business-driven infrastructure by streamlining the management of virtual, physical and clustered server environments. CA ASM centralizes the management and dynamic resource allocation of complex virtual platforms and is the cornerstone of the CA Virtual Platform Management solution.
  • CA XOsoft™ High Availability
    Add another level of data protection by providing automatic failover for continuous application availability with CA XOsoft High Availability. Because data is increasing more rapidly than ever — with evolving types of information requiring strong protection — a single loss could mean irreparable damage to your organization.

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