Boosts to Virtualization Management Come to Raritan's CC-SG 4.0

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Boosts to Virtualization Management Come to Raritan's CC-SG 4.0
By P. J. Connolly

September 4, 2008 — Another vendor is seeing the merits of managing virtualized systems in a comprehensive way, and has updated its management tools to reflect its new outlook.

Raritan introduced yesterday CommandCenter Secure Gateway (CC-SG) 4.0, which adds auto-discovery of virtualized systems, the ability to log and report on events in those systems, and new management views that enable a single-console view of systems along with one-click views of both physical and virtual servers. The refreshed CC-SG is available now and currently supports VMware systems; Raritan did not speak of its plans to target other virtualization platforms.

Power management features are the crux of the product's benefits. The CC-SG portal can manage intelligent PDUs (power distribution units) directly over an IP network, says the company, without the overhead of another management layer. Raritan’s own Dominion PX PDUs can, when used with CC-SG 4.0, offer real-time data on power usage for each server drawing current. The company calls this a helpful way to identify servers as candidates for virtualization, as the gear can show when a server is idle or underutilized.

CC-SG 4.0 also offers virtual power buttons that allow the suspension of VMware virtual servers. It can also access server power information. The software goes further, however, to offer a variety of remote access methods, including remote control software such as SSH, VNC or Windows Terminal Server and RDP; out-of-band console hardware such as KVMs or serial console switches; and even system-specific management controllers from Dell, HP and IBM.

CC-SG 4.0 can track the migration of virtual machines from one hypervisor to another, delivering real-time views of both the physical and virtual infrastructure. It can also handle authorization, auditing and session handoffs, noted Raritan. By using its Virtualization Manager, administrators are able to bulk-configure user or service accounts to reduce the detail work of deploying new physical or virtual servers.

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