The Infrastructure Center (IC) stands for indispensable business continuity for virtual IT infrastructures.

For enhancing efficiency in daily handling of virtual infrastructures in version 6.2 management and restore times have fundamentally been improved.

Convince yourself of the new IC v6.2 which is available in the download area.

IC for VMware® & XenServer™

Both VMware and XenServer users take advantage of the following innovations in the Infrastructure Center (IC):

• Quickest possible adoption of configuration changes in the IC server
  
  
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)® users optimize both their backup and their restore processes with IC v6.2. The new release offers shorter restore times for virtual machines because the last backup generation can be kept on local disk. Precious storage space is saved due to direct committing of snapshots before sending backups to TSM.
  
  
• HP Data Protector (DP)® users also take advantage of the new features. In v6.2 IC offers significantly faster restore times because backup files are transmitted in one session and because the last backup generation can be kept on local disk. As snapshots are directely committed before they are sent to DP, IC allows enormous savings of time and storage capacity. Furthermore, IC v6.2 makes possible to address multiple tapes because under each group of VM particular DP media pools and DP devices can be defined.

IC for VMware

• The Infrastructure Center Warehouse (ICW) is the new core of the IC for VMware. Representing the central data information base ICW contains all important information while working closely togehter with VMware vCenter. That way the handling of the GUI and of the IC server is much better and faster.
  
  
• In addition to ICW v6.2 allows the comprehensive backup & recovery of virtual systems including snapshots. That way, complex snapshot structures can be easily backed up and restored, e.g. for development purposes.

IC for XenServer

• Optimum business continuity has been the basis of all develpment efforts in the new version of the IC for XenServer as well. Extended availability levels for complex virtual server landscapes are here in focus. Additionally to its own technologies for high availability and zero downtime IC supports in v6.2 also the high availability technology offerd by the Essentials for XenServer.
  
  
• For facilitating the installation of the IC for XenServer the Java virtual machine is automatically delivered together with the allocation of agents. This means that you do not have to intervene manually in IC v6.2 - neither at first installation nor while updating your XenServer.
  
  
• For avoiding that data are written on local XenServer disk areas IC v6.2 checks if backup devices are mounted on the XenServer. That way, security and availability of data are increased.

The option Host2Host Backup allows you to back up virtual machines conveniently and directely from one host to another ESX server respectively XenServer.

Due to the asynchronous replication of virtual machines via TCP/IP connection you can easily create a backup server which contains the same information like its productive counterpart.

The option Host2Host Backup allows you to:

• mirror VMs directely and asynchronously
• easily and comfortably realize backup paths from local disks to lokal disks, from central storage to local disks, or from central storage to central storage
• conveniently restore an older backup generation also on an alternative location thanks to integrated generation management.

"Virtual Tools for your Virtualized Word"

With it's headquarter in Auckland and true to the company motto Optimati Limited has specialized in the distribution of Virtualization tools and Compliance and Security Software to the Australian and New Zealand markets.

Due to the portfolio's extension with the Infrastructure Center for VMware & XenServer from mySoftIT, Optimati now also offers professional backup & managmenet solutions for virtualized server infrastructures to its customers.

You will find more information about Optimati here.

"After virtualizing their physical servers with XenServer, SaaS provider asp-main GmbH was looking for a professional backup and disaster recovery solution for the company‘s virtual machines. This cloud computing provider from Vienna began implementing the Infrastructure Center (IC) for XenServer in November of 2009 with the modules IC-CIDeR and the Quick Recovery option along with IC-MoRe, and now plans on using additional solutions from mySoftIT in the future."

Read more about the IC for XenServer at asp-main in the case study .

Infrastructure Center for VMware & XenServer

In a single graphical user interface the IC for VMware and XenServer (IC) offers professional automation and management functionality in the following areas:backup & disaster recovery, monitoring & reporting, high availability, zero VM downtime, or job control.

World of Products with Modular Design

True to the motto "one (installation) for all (modules)" the entire Infrastructure Center must be installed only once. The single modules are activated by license key(s).

This means on the one hand that it is not necessary to install the IC again if you opt for another module at a later date. On the other hand it means that a configurated test environment can be comfortably changed into a productive environment simply by changing the license key.

Technical Webcast on November 17th 2009

Convince yourself in the upcoming live webinar how easy and comfortable it is to install the Infrastructure Center for VMware & XenServer or to configure backup-jobs.

Challenges

Despite lots of advantages server virtualization offers some areas remain problematic as TechTarget’s Virtualization Decisions 2009 Purchasing Intentions Survey finds out.

Especially backup and storage management were among the issues which were not addressed enough by hypervisor producers.

The study shows that „[w]hen you add virtualization to an environment, you make things easier, but you also make things much, much more complex.”

Solutions

The Infrastructure Center for VMware & XenServer helps you reducing the complexity by offering professional management and automation solutions. With the IC you can manage the backups of your virtual machines in an optimum way and use the capacities of your infrastructure as efficiently as possible:

• Data deduplication and compression rates for full and differential backups of up to 90%

• Minimal Recovery Time Objective (RTO) as a result of restore functionality in every location within seconds

• Asynchronous replication via H2H backup for directly backing up VMs on alternative hosts

• Group configurations inclusive jobqueues, archiving and generation management

• Connection of external scheduling systems for centralized control, even within heterogeneous environments

• Real-time updates of logs and reports

• Automated storage control per single LUN

• Detailed analyses of data throughput, backup volume, backup times, etc. for using server and storage capacities efficiently

• Comprehensive communication between different solutions in the data center via SMTP & SNMP

• High availabiltiy and zero VM downtime

• And much more

Convince yourself and test the Infrastructure Center for VMware & XenServer!

The free test software is availabe in the download area.

In addition to backing up virtual machines in multiple backup targets (TSM, HP Data Protector, file server, SAN, iSCSI target, NFS server) the Infrastructure Center for VMware & XenServer offers a wide range of different backup paths as well.

For connecting different storage areas you can for example backup virtual machines directly on alternative ESX / XenServers.

Of course you can take advantage of the opportunity to recover VMs in seconds on the remote side, too.

Try it and convince yourself!

The free test software is availabe in the download area.

Thanks to the compatibility with the latest hypervisors from VMware & Citrix the Infrastructure Center now offers professional management and automation functionalities for VMware vSphere 4 & XenServer 5.5 as well.

In addtion to well-proven solutions in numerous installations, IC v6.1 offers new functionality for optimum management of virtual server infrastructures.

IC for VMware & IC for XenServer

• Data deduplication and compression rates for full and differential backups of up to 90% for saving valuable storage space

• Dynamic link between online and offline backups for maximum data consistency

• Shared & local storage control for each individual LUN with easy configuration of all LUNs with one click

IC for VMware

• Exclusion of single disks for saving time and space

• Automated backups of VMs independent of storage location for easy administration

IC for XenServer

• Agentless backup & restore processes for best performance and shortest possible recovery times

• High Availability in addtion to Backup & Disaster Recovery, Zero-Downtime, Monitoring & Reporting and Connection to global scheduling systems

Convince yourself and test the Infrastructure Center for VMware & XenServer!

The free test software is availabe in the download area.

Optimum Recovery of your Data!

In addition to recovering virtual machines in seconds or restoring all/and single virtual disks, we offer the opportunity to recover single files in VMware environments as well.

Test the IC for VMware for free and convince yourself of professional management functionalities like:

• Restore of single files in a genuine GUI

• Drag & Drop instead of uncomfortable scripting

• Windows-like managment (symbols, menus, etc.)

The free test software is availabe in the download area.

Do you already take advantage of the positive effects made possible by server virtualization?

Have you already asked yourself how to monitor and use your server and storage infrastructure in an optimum manner?

Would you like to know how to realize a comprehensive communication between different solutions in the data center?

Then IC-More for VMware & XenServer is the right solution for you! It offers the right answers for optimum monitoring and detailled reporting:

• Monitoring of backup processes with automated actions when threshold values are reached

• Control of shared and local storage capacity per single LUN

• Detailed analyses of data throughput, backup volume, backup times, etc.

• Central event system and communications interface with reporting via e-mail (SMTP) and a system management protocol (SNMP)

Convince yourself and test IC-MoRe for VMware & XenServer!

The free test software is availabe in the download area.