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In the last part of the VMworld 2010 keynote VMware’s CEO Paul Maritz was referring to a new kid on the block called Integrien. It’s a relatively small company but they got some awesome products. Integrien recently launched a new product called AliveVM. I’ve managed to capture some screenshots and a brief description but it isn’t available for download anymore. The website says: VMware has acquired Integrien. The purchasing of this product is temporarily suspended, until further notice.

AliveVM is a revolution in real-time performance management for VMware administrators, built on the industry leading, enterprise-class Integrien Alive platform. AliveVM fills the existing gap for automated performance management for VMware administrators with sophisticated learning-based analytics and an elegant and easy-to-use web-based interface. With AliveVM, VM Administrators are no longer forced to rely on classic monitoring tools and techniques that provide limited insight into the performance of their virtual infrastructure. With the introduction of AliveVM, they are provided with detailed behavioral analysis of the entire virtual environment. AliveVM also provides a real-time summary of performance Health, Workload usage, and Capacity forecasts for each and every virtual element (e.g., Virtual Machines, ESX Servers, Clusters, Storage LUNs and Network elements). Whether your virtual environment spans 50 Virtual Machines or 50,000, AliveVM will vastly simplify your performance management and virtual infrastructure optimization.


At this moment the product is being re-branded and the interface is undergoing some design changes as well, VMware will probably re-launch AliveVM in the first quarter of 2011.

My VMworld started with the VMware Certified Instructor day.  It’s a great day for meeting up with fellow instructors and learn about newly released products firsthand.  There were some Q/A sessions about VMware View 4.5, the Cloud Service Director and VCDX with subject matter experts like Tommy Walker,  Michael Haines, Duncan Epping, John Arrasjid and Pang Chen.

The best VCI Awards were handed out by Andy Cary, Undeleeb Din and Chris Cottam . Brian Rice gave us an insight into the Education Road Map and the Certification Road Map. The VCI Program session was presented by David Day. Although a lot of information is still under NDA, I was able to shoot some video footage.

Although VMware’s website still has a landing page for VMware vCenter ConfigControl, the rumour goes that this product will be rebranded into vCenter Change Insight. This soon to be released new product is able to track, analyze, assess and take corrective actions to maintain configuration integrity.  It’s also able to setup policies to invoke workflows on a selected set of entities, upon a schedule or an event.

The preliminary feature list looks very promising

• Auto-documents environment, all entities, relationships, dependencies
• Tracks and alerts on configuration and relationship changes real time
• Assesses configurations against past, peers and best practices
• Takes corrective actions via policies (e.g. call out to Orchestrator)

Benefits

• Risk mitigation through improved visibility into ripple through effects
• Improve opex through visibility and streamlined remediation
• Integrates with existing products and processes
• Track, analyze, assess & take corrective actions to maintain configuration integrity

With the integration of vCenter Change Insight and Orchestrator you’re able to make custom mass configuration changes and corrections.

You better keep a close watch on the new vSphere Team blog "vThink IT", were David Friedlander and Bogomil Balkansky already have posted their first articles.

I've just discovered a new VMware corporate blog with the name “The Rain Makers”. The contributing author; Joao Crespo is working on a real cool document which provides a first insight to vCSD look and feel and assists on how to perform some basic administration tasks.

 

vCloud Network Isolation Backed - Create a network pool backed by vCloud isolated networks.  A vCloud isolated network spans hosts and provides traffic isolation from other networks.  The system provisions vCloud isolated networks automatically.

Update: The vCSD - Step by Step Guide was posted at http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/therainmakers/ but was made mistakenly available to the general community. It should have been availlable for registered Beta users only. It has been removed now.