icomasoft announces the release of its VI PowerScripter Professional v1.5. The latest release of icomasoft’s VI automation software is best positioned to rapidly address automation, management and compliance requirements across Virtual Infrastructures. IT administrators will experience a better control of their virtual infrastructure, increased IT compliance and substantial time-savings in routine management tasks.
Visitors of VMworld Europe 2009 have realized the benefits of icomasoft’s powerful automation software and ranked the respective session “Managing VMware with PowerShell” among the best Top 3 Sessions of the most important virtualization event in Europe. VI PowerScripter Professional v1.5 is designed to manage virtual infrastructures on different platforms and provides a high degree of automation. It can easily adapt and execute complex tasks automatically, even providing a scheduler for recurring jobs.
IT administrators strive for efficiency and confidence in their operating environment and understand that highly automated management tasks substantially reduce their workload while ensuring compliance with regulations and best-practices. “Following the successful launch of VI PowerScripter Professional in October 2008, we received valuable inputs from our growing global customer base and from the virtualization community,” says Diego A. Boscardin, CEO of icomasoft® and goes on: “VI PowerScripter v1.5 includes substantial enhancements addressing customer requirements for enhanced ease of automation of virtual infrastructures.”
VI PowerScripter v1.5 offers IT administrators substantial benefits and turn-key solutions for a highly automated VI management, leading to an optimized and cost-efficient virtual infrastructure.
Solutions & Benefits
· Seamless integration into VMware’s management products > The smooth integration into VMware’s management console (ESX/ESXi direct connect or vCenter connect and experimental support of vSphere 4.0) offers IT administrators a familiar look & feel and an unparalleled ease-of-use through customizable dynamic context menus.
· Security > No need to care about authentication, clear text passwords or VM or ESX selection. icomasoft® VI PowerScripter does it all. No more typos and human errors in virtual machine management.
· Task automation > Up to 2 hours daily time-savings per administrator through automation of recurring complex tasks and improved IT compliance through prevention of human errors across the entire hierarchy.
· Task scheduling > Ability to schedule tasks with seamless integration into VMware vCenter Scheduled Tasks, for familiar look & feel.
· Reporting > The extended graphical reporting includes event logs and statistics.
The product includes standardized and customizable graphical reports with filtering, sorting, grouping, conditional formatting and exporting to Excel and CSV files. Any Application with PowerShell interface can be used, i.e. Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Visio) or HTML.
· Flexibility > A resilient architecture combined with a user-friendly interface enables the integration of 3rd party applications that are based on Microsoft PowerShell and the simultaneous management of cross-platform virtual infrastructures, i.e. our own SSH and Gridview integration for extended administration functionality.
Upgrade from VI PowerScripter v1.1 to v1.5
Customers, who bought VI PowerScripter v1.1, including maintenance and support, are eligible for a free upgrade. If the respective management console is configured for internet access, the VI PowerScripter will automatically detect the availability of an updated version. Alternatively, customers can download the setup binary from our license store.
Licensing and Availability
icomasoft® VI PowerScripter Professional v1.5 is now available through icomasoft’s reseller network and at www.icomasoft.com/downloads/vi-powerscripter.html. The downloadable full version provides a 15-days trial period. The product sells at € 285.00 per administrator, including 1st-year maintenance and support. Reseller and volume discounts are available. For more information, please visit: www.icomasoft.com/products/vi-powerscripter.html.
About icomasoft®
icomasoft AG is an independent Swiss software vendor providing agent-less software solutions for automation of virtual IT infrastructure management in heterogeneous datacenters. icomasoft® solutions are designed to help customers optimizing their virtual infrastructure and aligning IT cost to the business in order to protect their investments. Many local and global customers of all sizes use icomasoft® software solutions. icomasoft® solutions are available through a growing global reseller ecosystem. Additional information is available at www.icomasoft.com