Understanding VMware Configuration Manager

One of our favorite solutions at Bulldog Data Services is the VMWare Configuration Manager. Sometimes, it’s a challenge to understand VMWare’s product lines and how they can help you. They have a lot of products and it can get confusing, quite honestly. The company has grown drastically over the last ten years and changed the way that IT does its work. It started with vSphere, but VMWare brought more solutions to the table to help people deal with the growing complexity of their VM environment. Suddenly administrators were dealing with 100s or 1000s or 10,000s of VMs. The tools you had in the past just didn’t work anymore.



VMWare Configuration Manager is a solution not everyone seems to know about, but it can do some amazing things:
Patch virtually any operating system on the planet from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to CentOS to Suse to Windows to Solaris
Keep track of every change across every system in your environment, such as new packages, edited config files, new users, giving your unprecedented insight
Use actionable rules, put together by compliance standards experts, that can scan your whole network and give you incredibly detailed reports
Remediate problems across your environment with point and click, without every going to the console:
Change permissions across 1000s servers
Blacklist a package and enforce keeping it off machines
Change config files
Enforce change control through integration with third party ticketing systems like Remedy
Map change data into VMWare operations graphs so you can pinpoint exactly what change caused what problem on your systems

Configuration Manager is amazing to see in action. The sheer scope of insight it brings to the table is something we could only dream about in IT years ago. Check out the data sheet below to learn a little more, or reach out to our Sales Team to show you how we can help bring sanity to your environment with Configuration Manager.

VMWare Configuration Manager 5.5 Data Sheet