This document provides an overview of ISV Partners Solutions, a joint offering from CA Technologies and VMware that helps organizations manage their virtual, physical and cloud environments. The solution provides centralized management, integration across platforms, and ensures performance, availability and security for applications across domains. It leverages VMware's virtualization capabilities and integrates with CA's enterprise management tools to provide visibility, automation, analytics and cloud management capabilities. Customers benefit from improved service quality, efficiency, agility and ROI through optimized management of virtual and physical resources.

1. I S V PA R T N E R S O LU T I O N S D ATA S H E E T
I S V PA R T N E R S O LU T I O N S DATA S H E E T
Accelerate, Automate, and Assure Physical,
Virtual and Cloud Environments
Secure assets, optimize resources and ensure availability of virtual, physical and cloud environments
isV oVErViEW:
Industry Overview
As organizations mature in their adoption of virtualization they require a strong
CA Software management strategy that is ‘enterprise ready’, delivers efficient IT services and
www.ca.com/virtual includes automation. Some of the challenges include:
VMware and CA work together to ensure • Centralization: Ability to centralize physical, virtual and cloud server provisioning,
CA’s proven management solutions deliver management and reporting
the most value to customers running key
business applications and services on the • Integration: Simplifying management of multi-platform environments
VMware vSphere™ platform.
• Performance: Ensuring application and system performance and availability
KEy BusinEss nEEds: • Operations: Accurately tracking physical and virtual machines
IT organizations need to expand the value
• Configuration: Auditing configurations to reduce the impact of configuration drift
of virtualization across their data center by • QoS: Ensuring the delivery of quality services to the business
managing and delivering services based
on their IT and business priorities.
• Migration: Adding mission-critical applications from test to
production environment
CA ProduCts: • Security: Access based on roles and security of virtual machines
• CA Virtual Performance Management
• CA Spectrum Automation Manager – Solution Overview
provisioning, configuration, automation Working with VMware, CA’s business service assurance, business driven automation
• CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager – and cloud management solutions enable customers to effectively deploy, optimize,
fault isolation and root-cause analysis manage, automate, and secure critical business services that span physical and
• CA eHealth Performance Manager – virtual systems and IT domains.
proactive performance metrics
• CA Wily Introscope –
Business Service Assurance
application management
Delivers integrated physical and virtual management solutions by leveraging
• CA Insight Database –
VMware vCenter management capabilities. These include:
performance management
• CA XOsoft™ – storage management • Single pane of glass across physical and virtual environments
• CA ARCserve® Backup – • Service-centric view across all domains
recovery management
• CA Access Control – Security Manager • Role-based access for enhanced security
• Real-time and historical performance metrics
VMWArE ProduC ts:
• VMware vSphere™ 4 Business Driven Automation
• VMware vCenter™ Server
• Self-service provisioning model
• VMware vCenter™ Life Cycle Manager
• VMware vCenter™ Chargeback
• Managing configuration drifts in minutes
• VMware vCenter™ AppSpeed • Repeatable and extensible process automation
• VMware vCenter™ Lab Manager

2. I S V PA R T N E R S O LU T I O N S D ATA S H E E T
CA Software Partner Solution
• Real-time physical, virtual and cloud • Roles based management/dashboards Customer Success:
provisioning for enhanced security
CA customers report anywhere from
Cloud Management • CA and third party integrations – 15-30 percent resource optimization
Cisco, Telcos, Automation, Cloud and due to improved levels of performance
• End-to-end cloud management for
Virtualization vendors and utilization.
service providers
• Granular performance management metrics
• Meeting scalability challenges in real-time
LEArn MorE
• Deep visibility and accurate Heterogeneous support
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Breadth of expertise - Multiple OS To learn more about VMware solutions
Overall, through VMware’s investment in and products, visit www.vmware.com
• Broad support - Multiple VM vendors
providing open interfaces and collaborating
or call 1-877-4VMWArE.
with partners like CA as a ‘VMware Ready’ • Breadth of coverage - Distributed
partner, customers get a comprehensive set and mainframe
of enterprise management tools that are
VMware vCenter™ and VMware® vSphere™
Business Results
integrated providing enterprise-class,
virtualization-smart management. The VMware and CA partnership enables IT
organizations to expand the value of VMware
• Protects customer investments in vSphere™ across the data center, allowing
management tools rather than a customers to confidently manage and deliver
rip-and-replace services in respect to their IT and business
• Delivers end-to-end management, priorities. By integrating the right data and
automation and cloud computing metrics about vSphere with CA enterprise
management solutions, customers are able
to improve service quality and efficiency,
Solution Benefits increases agility, reap a greater ROI, and
CA virtualization management expertise mitigate IT and business risks.
secures assets, optimizes resources and
ensures availability of virtual and physical
VMware and CA
servers as well as the business critical
applications and services they host. CA management solutions are tightly
This enables: integrated with VMware vCenter for
optimized management of virtual resources.
• Automated and centralized management of CA solutions supplement VMware’s portfolio
physical, virtual and cloud provisioning by adding enterprise level management
• End-to-end visibility from infrastructure to functionality that seamlessly integrates with
end customer customer’s physical environment. This level
of visibility coupled with patented Root
• Superior root cause analytics across all Cause Analytics (RCA) results in reduced
domains (intelligence vs. rules) downtime and risks.
• Automatic thresholding for early warning of
potential failures VMware and CA solutions allow customers
to dynamically and cost effectively respond
• Models based approach vs. event based
to changing business demands through a
which allow more dynamic and real-time
management and scalability business-driven data center all while
providing maximum value at a minimum cost.
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