What is CA Virtual Performance Management (VPM)?
It is a systems management solution that maximizes the business value of IT services by providing an integrated view of physical and virtual environments. By integrating with CA Infrastructure and Automation Managers, CA VPM improves service quality and efficiency, increases agility, provides a greater ROI, and mitigates IT and business risks.
What systems management challenges does it meet?
You are facing either over-utilization or under-utilization of system resources. With CA VPM, you proactively address changing business demands -optimizing performance and ensuring system availability. Services are prioritized based on business impact and are resolved based on set policies to avoid outages-reducing risks to the business.
What systems features does it offer?
It offers patented ‘dynamic resource brokering’ capability that optimizes system resources in real-time, advanced discovery and relationship mapping of virtual to physical resources, comprehensive performance metrics in real-time and historical analysis for capacity planning, and powerful performance reporting for day–to–day operations.
What platforms does it support?
It offers broad management coverage for virtual and cluster technologies from VMware, IBM, Sun in the initial phase. Later release will support Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix Xen.
