The new version monitors and provides the ability to dynamically reallocate resources within virtualized environments. It supports HP MC Service Guard; IBM HACMP and pSeries LPAR capable eServers (P4 and P5); Microsoft Virtual Server and Cluster; Red Hat Advanced Server cluster; most Sun Enterprise, midrange, and sun Fire servers; Sun clusters; Veritas Cluster Servers (running Solaris and Windows); and VMware ESX/GSX Servers
It provides the ability to automatically discover and dynamically reallocate resources in virtualized environments, regardless of whether they use virtualization or clustering. It does this on a separate, more granular systems command console than the existing Unicenter NSM front end.
Abbreviated versions of these capabilities were previously available a la carte. For example, you could previously buy separate add-ons that monitored and provided basic configuration of VMware environments; management of clusters; or dynamic resource allocation of Sun VR platforms.
The new product consolidated all these functions into a single command center based on the premise that virtualization and clustering are essentially two means to the same end. In both cases, you are trying to get more use out of existing platforms, whether through virtualizing a system image onto multiple CPUs or clustering compute nodes to boost processing capacity.
And like other parts of the Unicenter product family, Unicenter ASM is also adding support of Microsoft SDQL Server for its Management Database, MDB, the repository for which all Unicenter 11.x modules are using for storing data. That is in addition to Ingres, which was the original CA MDB platform.
