Brocade Supports Microsoft Virtualisation

April 30, 2008: Brocade has announced that it is working with Microsoft to develop a management pack to incorporate the recently-announced Performance and Resource Optimisation (PRO) feature in Microsoft’s System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, helping administrators manage both physical and virtual data centre resources.

Brocade says PRO can help dynamically address alerts from hardware, operating systems and applications by “shifting virtual machine resources according to knowledge-based policies and rules.”

By extending many of the Brocade data centre fabric and Host Bus Adapter (HBA) management capabilities into Virtual Machine Manager, helping administrators to deploy and manage end-to-end data services such as virtualisation, quality of service, and security across the entire data center fabric.

The company says its management pack for PRO enables System Center to use specific device and network information such as overall health, performance, and configuration data. This gives admins visibility beyond the server and into the storage network, aiding with decisions on where to place, migrate, or reconfigure applications, hardware, or virtual machines.

“Customers continually ask for simpler ways to track and manage devices in the evolving data centre, and virtualisation magnifies that need,” says Madhu Matta, Vice President of Brocade's Server Connectivity Division.

“Brocade is working with Microsoft to provide seamless incorporation with System Center by extending Brocade Adaptive Networking technologies into the data centre management solutions.”

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