Brocade Demos Management Pack for Microsoft System Center

Brocade demonstrated a new server-to-storage area network (SAN) management productivity solution for Microsoft System Center that provides customers with end-to-end data center fabric and host bus adapter (HBA) management capabilities, as well as recommendations for optimizing their system performance.

Called the Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center, the new solution helps enable IT organizations to take advantage of these capabilities to monitor the health and performance of the SAN infrastructure and use the information to dynamically optimize data and server resources in virtualized data centers.

"Customers continue to ask us for simpler and more efficient ways to track and manage their critical data to maintain business continuity, and the advent of virtualization and virtual machine mobility has only magnified that need," said Harry Petty, director of Marketing for the Brocade Server Division. "As the world leader in connecting businesses to their data, Brocade is pleased to align with Microsoft to deliver management solutions that are easy to deploy and that meet the highest levels of quality of service and return on investment in today’s dynamic IT environment."

Brocade Management Pack for Microsoft System Center interoperates directly with Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO), a feature of Virtual Machine Manager 2008, to offer expanded visibility and dynamic management of virtualized infrastructures beyond the confines of the server and into the shared storage network. PRO’s real-time monitoring and remedial capabilities enable IT organizations to act upon an event that is impacting performance or a pending failure in the storage network, ultimately helping them to optimize application performance, seamlessly connect data, and unify management of their information assets.

The Brocade solution is built on the innovative Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture and HBA management capabilities to help bridge the ‘virtualization management gap’ and empowers organizations to make informed decisions about where to place, migrate, or reconfigure applications, hardware, and virtual machines. Brocade offers a comprehensive portfolio of data center networking products delivering superior performance, reliability and ease of use versus competitors.

"We are pleased to align with Brocade in their delivery of new capabilities which integrate with the end-to-end virtualization management solutions provided by System Center to simplify infrastructure management and provide powerful new capabilities to the dynamic, virtualized data center," said Zane Adam, senior director of integrated virtualization at Microsoft.

For more information on how Brocade is aligning with Microsoft  for virtualized IT environments