Increase Visibility
The VMware Stage Manager user interface is organised around services and the stages associated with each service. It displays and acts on services as a unit, operating on the cnfiguration of virtual machines that combine to deliver the IT service.
- Use a simple user interface as a global view of all services under management
- Organise multi-machine service configurations by the IT service they support
- Define the stages of the release process and customise them for specific services
- Associate resource pools from VMware VirtualCenter with services and lifecycle stages
Effortlessly Transition Service Configurations Between Stages
VMware Stage Manager ensures the accuracy of pre-production resources by letting you create snapshots of production systems and move them back and forth, as needed. In this way, every service in every stage uses an exact copy of the most current system.
- Create multi-tier service configurations in seconds using machines templates, with no limit on machine count
- Deploy cloned configurations side-by-side using the “fenced network" feature
- Promote and demote service configurations across the lifecycle in seconds
- Optimise for performance or disk space consumption with full and linked clone technology
- Interact with all service configuration consoles on a single browser page
- Set lease times to automatically un-deploy expired configurations
- Leverage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) for optimum virtual machine placement across resource clusters
Control Access on a Per-Service Basis
VMware Stage Manager lets you authorise users to see only the services or stages of particular services that they need to access.
- Grant user permissions on a per-service, per-stage basis
- Gain out-of-the-box support for LDAP
- Assign an administrator role to multiple users
- Allow users to self-manage preferences
Comply with IT Processes and Regulations
VMware Stage Manager keeps an audit trail of system and configuration changes to ensure regulatory and IT process compliance.
- Archive and restore complete service configurations with a single mouse-click
- Leverage hierarchical storage management for archived service configurations.
- Store event and configuration change logs for audit purposes
Optimise Resource Utilisation
You can configure VMware Stage Manager to use linked-clones to maximise storage efficiency in the non-production environment, or provide full disks to configurations in production to achieve higher performance.
- Monitor resource consumption on a per-service or per-stage basis
- Optimise datastore utilisation with graphical displays of disk space consumption and configuration dependency trees