Blue Medora announced the availability of its VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Dell PowerEdge.
The new solution provides Dell users to access predictive analytics, performance and capacity information, allowing for proactive monitoring and troubleshooting of their entire environment from a single console.
The new Blue Medora software enables customers to gain comprehensive visibility and insights into the performance and health of their Dell server workloads running on VMware. Blue Medora provides a comprehensive set of cloud systems and data center automation software products that can view, optimize and analyze the entire enterprise stack. The Blue Medora Management Pack monitors Dell servers and related hardware using VMware vRealize Operations, enabling users to identify and resolve issues across the applications stack before they occur.
“The release of our Management Pack for Dell PowerEdge extends our ability to meet the needs of customers across a wide range of technology environments and platforms,” said Mike Kelly, Blue Medora CTO. “Our strategy will see our product range expand still further in coming months to deliver the most comprehensive and capable cloud management and application performance management product suite available anywhere.”
Enterprises typically manage IT infrastructure using separate teams and tools, creating data and operational silos that are difficult to manage. Blue Medora helps improve data center operations by showing the relationships between all layers of the data center in a single view.
The software offers a wide range of features that, in addition to management and monitoring, allow users to understand current workloads and plan expansion and consolidation with greater confidence. Blue Medora improves collaboration across platforms and provides transparent access to actionable intelligence.
Additional Management Pack benefits include:
- Relationships – automatically detect and create relationships between Dell PowerEdge servers and virtual machines
- Alerts and recommendations – for faster solutions
- Capacity monitoring – ensures mission critical servers never run out of key resources, such as disk capacity
- Reports and views – includes out-of-the-box reports such as Dell Server Health Overview and Dell Server and Related Virtual Machine Health Overview.
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