New Management Tools for VMware & Connectix

[CodeArts Info]

CodeArts has released new management tools designed to help you manage
your entire Virtual

Data Center composed of standalone servers, blade servers, SAN/NAS or
virtual servers from

VMware® or Connectix®.

The name of the Software Suite is vmTools
(http://www.codearts.com/products/vmtools), which

includes:

* vmGrid: Management Interface
(http://www.codearts.com/products/vmgrid)

- Web and Java-based GUI (Graphic User Interface), with drag & drop
capabilities
- Virtual and physical IT application landscape administration:
virtual servers, virtual

hosts (VMware® GSX/ESX or Connectix®) and physical standalone servers
- Virtual and physical application server centralized monitoring and
control: server details

(hostname, IP address, system description, configuration, hard drives,
partitions...)

display, resources usage (CPU, RAM...), direct remote desktop and
remote console access,

remote start/stop/suspend/reset
- Virtual and physical application server search
Role-based user authentication for monitoring and/or administration

* vmAgent: Remote Server Management Agent
(http://www.codearts.com/products/vmagent)

- Lightweight Java-based platform-independent software application
Virtual servers, virtual hosts (VMware® GSX/ESX & Connectix®) and
physical standalone servers

remote control & monitoring
- New virtual and physical application server discovery
- Physical server network boot

* vmDisk: Conversion Tool
(http://www.codearts.com/products/vmdisk)

- Java-based platform-independent software application
- Virtual and physical application server and disk image conversion
from/to any formats,

including VMware®, Connectix® or Symantec® Ghost
- Virtual application server physicalization and physical application
server virtualization
- Automatic driver recognition and deployment during physicalization
and virtualization
- Virtual and physical application server backup and recovery
- Virtual and physical disk or partition conversion (FAT32, NTFS,
Linux...)
- Fast transport protocol (up to 10 times faster as common OS
transport protocols including

Microsoft Windows® & LINUX® Platform)

* vmDeploy: Deployment Tool
(http://www.codearts.com/products/vmdeploy)

- Java-based platform-independent software application
- Replication, deployment and upgrade of virtual or physical
application servers, including

VMware® GSX/ESX or Connectix® servers, from a libray of OS &
application templates
- Renaming, customization and configuration of virtual or physical
application servers (after

replication, deployment or upgrade): new hostname, IP address and
application-specific

properties

For more information, please visit the CodeArts Website at
http://www.codearts.com