We welcome Embotics to our Cloud Management Platform evaluation category. We’ve added their Cloud Management Software vCommander version 5.6.3 to our technical comparison and after evaluating its capabilities it went straight into the “top 3” of the category, reflecting the increasing capabilities of Embotics.
One of the (differentiating) key value propositions of vCommander is the ease-of-use and simplicity of the initial set-up compared to some of its competitors.
Embotics describes vCommander as an “easy-to-use, platform-neutral CMP with the fastest time-to-value in the industry – it can be implemented within one hour.” It allows IT organizations to deliver IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) from a single console while continuously monitoring resources to optimize the automation, deployment, and configuration of IT services across private, public and hybrid clouds.
Embotics has been in business for over nine years with “hundreds of deployments across a wide range of enterprises and service providers” showing the software itself to be stable and scalable, enabling a pragmatic approach to cloud computing with a quick path to ROI.
For details on vCommanders technical evaluation go to our online comparison here.
What’s new in vCommander 5.6.3:
- Change memory and CPU resources for running VMs
- Changing memory and CPU no longer requires power down for vCenter VMs
- Storage cluster provisioning
- Storage clusters as targets for automated placement
- Storage tiers for datastore clusters
- SEsparse support
- Provision disks with the SEsparse virtual disk format
- VM rightsizing is now much more flexible
- Configure distinct rightsizing rules for different workload types
- Aggressive downsizing for vCenter and SCVMM VMs
- Chef multi-tenant organizations and environments
- Integrate with multiple Chef organizations
- Support for Chef environments
- User experience enhancements
- Variable assistant allows you to search for and add variables in the vCommander console
- Documented variables easier to scan and understand
- Rename VMs in the Service Portal
- Finer-grained control over the Destination form element
- Custom confirmation messages for each command workflow
- Improved VM configuration with groups
- Default Attributes Policy now targets VMs and Templates View
- Many text fields for specifying names now accept 100 characters
- Longer Service Portal Message of the Day
- Rename policies
- Example approval workflow included with vCommander
- REST API enhancements – The vCommander REST API version 2.5 includes support for the new features in this release, as well as the following enhancements:
- Add a datastore cluster to an automated deployment destination.
- The datastores property now returns both datastores and datastore clusters.
- Request form elements now handle HTML tags.
- Create custom components in service catalog entries.
- Fully manage Chef nodes, including the ability to manage multiple Chef organizations and set the Chef environment using blueprint forms.
- Retrieve and assign rightsizing groups as well as maintenance groups.
- Support for the TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 security protocols.
- Manage media folders as well as connect and disconnect media files to/from a VM’s virtual hardware.
- Veeam integration enhancements
- Veeam module version 1.1 released
- BigHorn replaces vHorn for importing metadata
- Automate the process of importing VM metadata
- Platform support
- Microsoft Edge support
For more details on this release please see the release notes HERE
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