VMware VCENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER Configuration

D A T A S H E E T
vCenter Configuration Manager
Policy-Driven Configuration Management and Compliance Control
AT A G L A N C E
VMware vCenter™ Configuration Manager (formerly
EMC Ionix Server Configuration Manager) automates
configuration management across virtual and physical
servers and desktops, increasing efficiency by
eliminating manual, error-prone and time-consuming
work. This allows enterprises to maintain continuous
compliance by detecting changes and comparing
them to configuration and security policies.
Configuration Manager remediates problems and
automates and optimizes server provisioning for
complete virtualized datacenter control.
K E y B E N E F I T S
• Avoid configuration drift by automatically detecting
and comparing changes to policies and remediating
to bring systems back into compliance.
• Maintain continuous compliance with out-of-the box
templates for standards and regulatory mandates
(such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS and HIPAA).
• Automate and optimize server provisioning and
application stack deployment in the datacenter.
• Streamline Active Directory management and
compliance automation.
• Gain enterprise control and broad configuration
visibility.
What Is VMware vCenter
Configuration Manager?
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager is a policy-driven
configuration automation solution that detects deep system
changes and checks whether those changes are compliant to
industry, regulatory or your own self-defined best practices. It
helps you avoid configuration drift by remediating systems to
bring them back into compliance, managing change, server
provisioning, and application stack optimization.
Configuration Manager automates critical IT configuration
management and compliance processes across thousands of
asset, security and configuration settings from VMware vSphere™,
VMware ESXi™ and ESX®, Windows, UNIX or Linux servers and
user desktops, providing a powerful, business-aligned system
with unified configuration insight.
How Is VMware vCenter
Configuration Manager Used?
VMware vCenter Configuration Manager ensures the integrity of
your virtualized datacenter and lowers IT audit costs by providing
automated compliance assessments against VMware and Microsoft
security best practice guides, industry best practices and your
own policies.
• Gain configuration insight and agility and avoid configuration
drift by automating discovery, collection, change detection and
policy violation identification for more than 80,000
configuration settings.
• Maintain continuous compliance with out-of-the-box templates
that contain policy-driven rules, reports and dashboards that
ensure security, regulatory and operational compliance.
• Automate server provisioning and optimize application stack
deployment with bare metal provisioning (BMP) and just
enough operating system (JeOS).
How Does vCenter
Configuration Manager Work?
vCenter Configuration Manager is the only end-to-end
configuration management solution that combines deep server
and workstation configuration management and provisioning
with out-of-the-box, built-in compliance intelligence, across
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