VMware environments face unique challenges in maximizing their return on investment.  While virtualization is part of the effort to reduce costs, and improve the efficiency of IT resources, control of VMware tasks is often left to manual intervention. Aligning VMware control with other key IT processes quickly becomes a necessity.

 

While VMware only automates the virtual environment, business processes are still contained in both physical and virtual environments.  VMware Management Tools cannot provide integration with IT processes running in the physical world.  Gaining an enterprise wide view of dependencies and relationships between VMware tasks and other applications, databases, and platforms is not possible with VMware tools.
 

JAMS represents the next generation of batch scheduling and workload management solutions.  By automating VMware tasks and other key processes in JAMS, IT managers have an enterprise wide view of all business processes.
 
Listed below are some of the VMware Tasks and IT issues that JAMS addresses:

Power State Management

Power Virtual Machine On
Power Virtual Machine Off
Suspend Virtual Machine
Reset Virtual Machine
Reboot Virtual Machine
Shutdown Virtual Machine
Query Power State
Reboot ESX Host

 

Create Snapshot
Revert to Snapshot

Create Virtual Machine
Clone Virtual Machine
Rename Virtual Machine
Delete Virtual Machine
Create Consistency Reports

Create Performance Reports

 

Having the right resources available is critical to improving efficiency.  Idle virtual machines consume resources long after their required processes have completed.  JAMS allows users to integrate power management with key business processes.  JAMS also allows users to migrate business process to Virtual Machines where resources are available.

 

Download JAMS for VMware.