Manging physical and virtual servers is the way forward

martin237 | July 20, 2009 | 0 Comments

Uptime Software has released Up.time 5, a systems management application that can monitor both physical and VMware-based virtual environments.

Up.time 5 relies on close collaboration with VMware’s virtual machine management system, vSphere 4 and its vCenter Orchestrator, to come up information needed for reporting on joint physical/virtual environments in a single management console. Up.time 5, for example, can track virtual machines moved by VMware’s live migration tool, VMotion, from one physical server to another.

Anything the vendors can do to aid systems management has to be a good thing, that we can move towards managing the physical and virtual servers has to be the way forward, but we need to couple that with the inventory tools, to understand from a business perspective what is running what application or service, for all those in-house reports, billing and process requirements we have – “how many web servers do we have running Windows 2003…”