New Release: Introducing Veritas Operations Manage...

c3lsius · ‎08-03-2012

Symantec today announced the release of Veritas Operations Manager 5.0 and Veritas Operations Manager Advanced 5.0- both of which take the next step in minimizing risk, managing complexity and maximizing storage utilization in your data center.

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Overview

Veritas Operations Manager is a storage and availability resource management platform for Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server that automates manual tasks and monitors the health of IT resources. With Veritas Operations Manager, you gain increased visibility and control when managing critical business services across virtual, physical and cloud environments.

You can discover, analyze, and forecast your storage assets to minimize risk using the premium version, Veritas Operations Manager Advanced. You can also report across multiple data centers from one central location, customize and group reports according to your business needs in order to accelerate operations. Lastly with Veritas Operations Manager Advanced, you can not only identify storage waste but also remediate from Veritas Storage Foundation hosts to control costs- a key differentiator.

5.0 Highlights

Some new features of these centralized management platforms, rated as a Leader in the 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management, include:

Veritas Operations Manager 5.0

Opex with automated recovery plans for disaster recovery and server repurposing and with improved application location and status tracking
Minimize risk with enhanced performance and I/O monitoring and with impact analysis of Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing path operations
Improve storage utilization with simple compression management and reports and with thin reclamation recommendation reports

Veritas Operations Manager Advanced 5.0

Get storage utilization, trending, reclamation, chargeback and now forecasting reports across physical and virtualization platforms, including VMware, Hyper-V, LPAR, LDOMs and Solaris Zones
Discover and report on all major storage arrays in customer data centers, including Storage Area Network (SAN) arrays and now Network Attached Storage (NAS) arrays from NetApp and EMC Celerra
Gain multi-data center availability and risk identification reporting for Veritas Cluster Server and storage reporting for leading clustering solutions, including Veritas Cluster Server, Microsoft Cluster Service, and VMware High Availability