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F5 announces new management pack for OpsMgr 2007

dynamically manage applicaiton delivery in virtual environments

By Kerrie Meyler on Sat, 11/07/09 - 8:38pm.

Prior to TechEd Europe this coming week, a number of third party vendors have made announcements. One of these is F5, who on November 3 announced its new F5 Management Pack Solution for OpsMgr 2007, allowing customers using F5 and Microsoft to dynamically manage application delivery in virtual environments, particularly when using Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

F5 has added Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) capabilities to its F5 management pack, previously introduced in April 2009.

PRO is a feature of System Center when you integrate Operations Manager 2007 and Virtual Machine Manager 2008. PRO is new, native Microsoft technology that enables dynamic management of virtualized infrastructure. This is an attempt by Microsoft to foster an industry protocol for automatic issue resolution of events arising from virtual environments - enabling cloud computing with hints of artificial intelligence. PRO leverages the management pack infrastructure of OpsMgr and the virtualization abstraction model used by VMM to create a real-time analysis and decision-making tool. Optionally, you can place optimization recommendations (PRO tips) in a 'full automatic' mode.

PRO features exist in the VMM management pack, focusing on CPU utilization and available memory on hosts and VMs. PRO-enabled management packs also exist from third party vendors such as Dell, Emulex, and Secure Vantage; and now F5.

For additional information on the F5 management pack, check out the following:

About Managing Microsoft

Kerrie Meyler, MVP, MCSE, MCTS, MCT, is an independent consultant and trainer with over fifteen years of experience in IT. While at Microsoft in Field Technical Sales for four years she focused on infrastructure and mangement, presenting at numerous product launches. Kerrie has presented Operations Manager 2007 at TechEd 2007, MMS 2009, MMS 2011, and internal Microsoft conferences, receiving company recognition and awards including a SPAR MGS award. Kerrie worked with Microsoft Learning to develop functional specifications for the original Operations Manager Microsoft courseware, 2550: Implementing Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 and did the beta teach for that course.She also participated in development for several System Center certification exams.

Kerrie is the lead author of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed, System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Unleashed, System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed, System Center Opalis Integration Server 6.3 Unleashed and System Center Service Manager 2010 Unleashed.

Check out an excerpt from System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed, Chapter 3: Looking Inside OpsMgr.

You can also check out an excerpt from System Center Configuration (SCCM) Manager 2007 Unleashed, Chapter 3: Looking Inside ConfigMgr.

Read a sample chapter of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed at Chapter 1: Introduction and What's New.

You can also read a sample chapter of System Center Opalis Integration Server 6.3 Unleashed at Chapter 1: Introducing Opalis Integration Server 6.3 and System Center Service Manager 2010 Unleashed at Chapter 1:Service Management Basics.

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