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1 2011. All rights reserved. All Schneider Electric trademarks are property of Schneider Electric . Other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Specifications are subject to change without notice. Disclaimer: This information is reliable at the point of creation and may be subject to change. Rev 11/4/2011 Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations Management PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Summary The Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations Management PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) combines information from the IT-layer and the physical infrastructure layer, enabling data center managers to automatically migrate their virtual machines from an impacted host server to a healthy host server. Contents Solution Components.

2 2 What is Schneider Electric StruxureWare Central? .. 2 What is Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations ? .. 2 What is Microsoft System Center? .. 2 What is Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)? .. 2 What is Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)? .. 3 What is a PRO Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager? .. 3 Solution Overview .. 4 What could the Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations Management PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager help me achieve? .. 4 What are the requirements for installing the Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations Management PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager? .. 4 How do I obtain the Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager?

3 5 What technology does the Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations Management PRO Pack use to communicate with Microsoft System Virtual Machine Manager? .. 5 Where do I install the Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations Management PRO Pack for Virtual Machine Manager? .. 5 How to reach Schneider Electric software sales? .. 5 How do I get support for the Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations Management PRO Pack for Virtual Machine Manager? .. 5 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 2011. All rights reserved. All Schneider Electric trademarks are property of Schneider Electric . Other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Specifications are subject to change without notice. Disclaimer: This information is reliable at the point of creation and may be subject to change.

4 Rev 11/4/2011 Solution Components What is Schneider Electric StruxureWare Central? A vendor-neutral, scalable monitoring server appliance which collects, organizes, and distributes critical alerts, surveillance video and key information, providing a unified view of complex physical infrastructure environments including power, cooling, environmental and security devices from anywhere on the network. Further Information: What is Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations ? Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations is a data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform providing the customer with an Operations framework and Management of data center physical infrastructure. The platform ties real-time device Management of power, cooling and related physical infrastructure devices with the potential impact to physical servers hosting virtual machines.

5 Further Information: What is Microsoft System Center? Microsoft System Center is an industry leading suite of Management products and solutions that help customers capture and aggregate knowledge about their IT infrastructure, policies, processes, and best practices empowering IT staff with manageable systems to automate Operations in order to reduce costs, improve application availability and enhance service delivery. System Center solutions help IT pros manage the physical and virtual information technology (IT) environments across data centers, client computers, and devices. Using these integrated and automated Management solutions, IT organizations can be more productive service providers to their businesses Further Information: What is Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)? Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is part of the System Center suite and provides end-to-end service Management improving availability and performance across IT services running in any datacenter, campus or remote environment.

6 Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is a software solution to meet the need for end-to-end service monitoring in the enterprise IT environment. It provides an easy-to-use monitoring environment that monitors thousands of servers, applications, and clients to provide a comprehensive view of the health of an organization s IT environment. This view of service health is key to a rapid, agile response to events that may impact the normal running of business and ultimately cost money. Further Information: 2011. All rights reserved. All Schneider Electric trademarks are property of Schneider Electric . Other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Specifications are subject to change without notice. Disclaimer: This information is reliable at the point of creation and may be subject to change.

7 Rev 11/4/2011 What is Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)? Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager is an application, which runs on top of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, extending the Management capabilities to the virtual server level. It helps enable centralized Management of physical and virtual IT infrastructure, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization platforms. It includes end-to-end capabilities such as planning, deploying, managing, and optimizing the virtual infrastructure. Further Information: What is a PRO Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager? A Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Management Pack is a feature of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager that enables dynamic Management of virtualized infrastructure.

8 PRO provides an open and extensible framework for partners to create technology specific Management packs for virtualized applications or associated hardware. In the case of APC, creating a PRO Management pack to integrate StruxureWare Operations and Virtual Machine Manager provides comprehensive monitoring and issue-resolution leveraging the capabilities of PRO. 2011. All rights reserved. All Schneider Electric trademarks are property of Schneider Electric . Other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Specifications are subject to change without notice. Disclaimer: This information is reliable at the point of creation and may be subject to change. Rev 11/4/2011 Solution Overview What could the Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations Management PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager help me achieve?

9 The Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations Management PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager combines information from the IT-layer and the physical infrastructure layer, enabling data center managers to automatically migrate their virtual machines from an impacted host server to a healthy host server. Links Physical & Virtual Environments Network managers can monitor their entire IT environment, including power, cooling, security and environmental data from Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and receive notice of physical infrastructure events and their impact on the IT infrastructure. Automated VM Migration The Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations Management PRO Pack provides an automated response to physical infrastructure events, moving virtual machines from impacted host servers to healthy host servers for uninterrupted uptime.

10 It enables data center operators to proactively simulate & identify how a physical device failure will impact business critical applications. This is the FIRST PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager to link physical infrastructure with physical and virtual server environments. Further Information: What are the requirements for installing the Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations Management PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager? StruxureWare Central or greater (InfraStruxure Basic, Standard and Enterprise editions all supported) StruxureWare Operations v or greater StruxureWare Operations : Capacity for data Centers or greater Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 or greater Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 or greater Schneider Electric StruxureWare Operations Management PRO Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2011.