vControl

vControl is a self-service provisioning and virtual machine (VM) management solution that provides automated request, approval and fulfillment as well as ongoing administration to streamline the provisioning process, improve VM management consistency, and reduce administrative costs over the lifetime of a VM. Furthermore, vControl discovers and tracks VMs providing VM administrators complete visibility into their virtual infrastructure and enabling a more cost effective solution for automation in the datacenter.

Reduce VM administration costs while improving management consistency

vControl is a multi-hypervisor virtual machine (VM) management solution that provides self-service provisioning, multi-VM control and task-based automation to reduce VM administration costs and improve consistency. vControl lets VM consumers build and deploy VMs for themselves, while providing administrators a single interface for task-based administration of VMs. Furthermore, vControl allows organizations to automate manual and repetitive tasks, helping to reduce VM administration costs, improve management consistency and enable a more cost-effective solution for high availability in the data center.

Working across multiple platforms, including VMware ESX/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V,Citrix XenServer, and Sun Solaris Zones, vControl gives administrators the power to manage single or multiple VMs, one by one or simultaneously, and to implement pre-configured or self-built workflows and scripts to aid automation.

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Key Features of vControl:

Self-Service Provisioning – Provides a system for consumers to build and deploy VMs through customizable VM templates. vControl’s workflow capability builds and deploys VMs, saving administration time and effort, while a VM approval process enables IT to approve, reject or make changes to VM requests.
Multi-VM Control – Offers browser-based interface that enables control of multiple platforms, including VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and Solaris Zones. Easy-to-trigger workflows provide task-based administration of VMs simultaneously. Further, vControl is browser-based for global access.
Task Automation – Provides out-of-the-box workflows and actions. VM administrators can use a visual workflow editor to build new workflows, combine actions and incorporate homegrown scripts. vControl also offers a Web services interface and SDK that can be used to accept requests from incident management solutions.
Task-Based High Availability (HA) – Offers failover that enables primary and secondary failover, mixed infrastructure failover and rapid VM recovery. This helps organizations reduce costs to support high availability (HA) with unlimited HA support for all VMs
Virtual Infrastructure Discovery – Enables VM administrators to discover hosts and VMs that exist within a specified IP range to quickly identify and include infrastructure resources, reducing VM configuration and setup times while preventing oversights.