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Brocade Develops Simplified Solutions for Virtualized Data Center Environments
May 2008 by Marc Jacob
Brocade announced that it is working with Microsoft to develop a management pack to incorporate the newly announced Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) feature within Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. PRO can help dynamically address alerts from hardware, operating systems and applications by shifting virtual machine resources using knowledge-based policies and rules. By extending many of the Brocade data center fabric and Host Bus Adapter (HBA) management capabilities into Virtual Machine Manager, this solution will help server administrators improve the management of their physical and virtual resources in data centers.
The new Brocade-focused management pack for PRO enables System Center to use specific device and network information such as overall health, performance, and configuration data. As a result, server administrators will have visibility beyond the confines of the server and into the storage network to help them make informed decisions on where to place, migrate, or reconfigure applications, hardware, or virtual machines.
