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Overview

 

 

" BMC’s Business Service Management platform extends VMware vCenter™ products, helping our joint customers achieve new levels of IT simplicity, reliability and responsiveness... The combined solution enables IT organizations to deliver improved service levels on a dynamic, flexible and reliable infrastructure."

— Kia Behnia, Chief Technology Officer, BMC Software

BMC Software and VMware enable organizations to build and operate cloud computing environments by giving you control of the full lifecycle of virtualization in your datacenter – from planning to configuration to management.

 BMC helps you build and operate a cloud that works for your business.  We offer a comprehensive set of software products and consulting resources that enable you to design, build, operate, and govern a cloud that meets the needs of your business. BMC and VMware solutions reduce costs, increase availability, assure continuous compliance, and drive new levels of agility and automation for application deployment and delivery.

Learn more about VMware virtualization management.

BMC Cloud LIfecycle Management and VMware vCloud Director Datasheet

BMC helps you build and operate a cloud that works for your business.  We offer a comprehensive set of software products and consulting resources that enable you to design, build, operate, and govern a cloud that meets the needs of your business. BMC and VMware solutions reduce costs, increase availability, assure continuous compliance, and drive new levels of agility and automation for application deployment and delivery.

Integrated Management Solutions

VMware partners with BMC to deliver complete enterprise management solutions to meet the physical and virtual management needs of our customers. 

The table below lists currently available products and solutions and highlights their benefits.

Product Management Capability Works with Customer Benefits
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Service Delivery and Operations vSphere 4.0, 4.1
  • Delivers a flexible, highly customizable cloud environment that meets the varied needs of users
  • Automates full-stack provisioning of cloud services
  • Provides a straightforward environment from which to manage and request cloud services
BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Operations ESX versions: 3.5.x, 4.0, 4.1
ESXi versions: 3.5.x, 4.0, 4.1, vSphere 4.0, vSphere 4.1
  • Unifies  infrastructure, end user, transaction, and application monitoring across all platforms (physical, virtual, and cloud)
  • Identifies abnormal patters and generates predictive alerts — delivering early warning of impending issues
  • Speeds time to resolution and prioritizes incidents based upon their impact on business services
  • Reduces manual corrective actions and increases worker productivity and satisfaction
BMC Capacity Management Operations

ESX versions: 3.0.x, 3.5, 4.0, ESXi versions: 3.5.x, 4.0, 4.1, vSphere 4.0, vSphere 4.1
  • Automatically identifies best consolidation and virtualization candidates on x86, UNIX, and mainframe platforms
  • Provides full visibility over capacity at all levels of the ESX infrastructure, including ESX clusters, hosts, VMs, datastores, etc - to avoid over-commitment and VM sprawl
  • Identifies optimal placement of real and hypothetical workloads — based on technical, business, and compliance constraints — through policy-based virtualization planning and optimization
  • Continuously aligns IT capacity to business demand
BMC Server Automation (part of the BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite) Change & Configuration ESX versions v3.0.x, v3.5.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x
ESXi versions  v3.5.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x,  vSphere 4.0, vSphere 4.1
  • Ensures the highest uptime for business-critical services
  • Provisions, patches, configures, and manages heterogeneous servers according to policy
  • Manages your physical and virtual environments from a unified management platform
BMC Atrium Discovery & Dependency Mapping Change & Configuration ESX versions v3.0.2 and later, ESXi v3.5 and later
  • Dynamically discovers and visualizes virtual and physical infrastructures and the business services they deliver
BMC Atrium Orchestrator Service Delivery and Operations vSphere 4.0, vSphere 4.1, VMware Lifecycle Manager 1.1, VMware vCloud Director 1
  • Automates common virtual and physical tasks — from self-service request and deployment of VMs for users to integration with change mgmt processes and applications
  • Triage and remediate:  enrich event information to accelerate root cause analysis and automatically apply known fixes

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