System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)

ActiveBatch® Extension - SCVMM 2012

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Fig. 1: Automate the provisioning of virtual machine systems

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IT organizations are increasingly relying on virtual machines to reduce costs, maximize resources and improve operational flexibility and efficiency. As part of this movement, IT managers are relying on Microsoft's Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) for rapid provisioning of virtual machines by making it possible to quickly create and consolidate machines and servers within a virtual environment.

The ActiveBatch for Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 allows IT Operations staff to create, provision, clone and distribute virtual machines across Hyper-V, VMware and other virtual machine systems. Within ActiveBatch a systems administrator can add or delete a host or virtual machine, create snapshots and/or checkpoints, clone virtual machines and establish maintenance modes for specific machines. The result: the ability to leverage ActiveBatch as a single interface to manage your virtual environment across multiple platforms, such as VMware, Hyper-V and Xen, all through a single user interface, allowing IT organizations to empower themselves to make more flexible, dynamic choices in their application deployment and their allocation resources, including:

• higher server utilization,
• improved service levels
• Better utilization of resources via the ability to start and stop virtual machines in ActiveBatch when workflows are complete
• the ability to better meet changing requirements and increased continuity and disaster recovery.

ActiveBatch for SCVMM compliments the VMware job steps located in the ActiveBatch Integrated Jobs Library, which give users the ability to deploy and maintain virtual systems while integrating them with other applications, databases and platforms inside or outside of the VMware infrastructure. In turn, the VMware capabilities compliment SCVMM with job steps not included in Virtual Machine Manager, such as the ability to support events. To learn more about our VMware job steps, and the differences between SCVMM and VMware, click here.

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