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physical and virtual environments, giving the policy-driven
automation and control required to deliver IT as a service.
• Deep Collection and Visibility
Discover configurations across the enterprise with scalable,
secure data collection, and track changes to them automatically.
• Compliance Policy Intelligence
Ensure compliance with various industry and regulatory
standards and requirements on a continuous basis.
• Remediation and Patch Management
Detect and fix configuration problems and security vulnerabilities
automatically across multiple systems. Assess the status of a patch,
deploy a new patch and verify correct deployment of a patch.
• Server Provisioning and Application Stack Deployment
Provision Linux, Windows and ESX images and optimized
JeOS-based application stacks.
• Multiplatform Support
Support Windows desktops and servers, UNIX and Linux
servers, and vSphere.
Key Features
Configuration and Change Management
• Automated collection, analysis, remediation, and patch
management lowers IT audit costs by significantly reducing
the time and labor associated with time-consuming manual
processes.
• Tool consolidation increases IT efficiency, removing the hassles,
headaches and time associated with using multiple separate
systems for managing server changes, patches, configurations
and remediation.
• Centralized view into configuration, security and operational
compliance.
• Discover, collect and detect changes and identify policy
violations for more than 80,000 configuration settings.
Out-of-the-Box Compliance Templates
• Ensure continuous compliance with security best practices and
hardening guidelines for VMware, Microsoft, and Apple
• Enforce standards and regulatory mandates including the following:
– Regulatory mandates (such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, DISA,
ISO 17799, 802-53 and Basel II)
– Industry standards (such as PCI DSS and NIST)
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vCenter Configuration Manager
Automate Server Provisioning, Optimize Stack
Deployment
• Common provisioning platform for both physical and virtual servers
• Centralized repository for managing software stacks
• Bare metal provisioning of Linux, Windows and ESX images
• Optimized JeOS-based software that maximizes virtual
machine density, minimizes resource utilization and decreases
security vulnerabilities
• Application provisioning that ensures the right software
packages are installed on proper systems
Active Directory Compliance
• Streamline Active Directory management and compliance
automation by collecting Active Directory configuration data,
objects and changes made.
• Track access control entry (ACE) or other critical security-based
changes that may not be approved or occur outside designated
change windows.
• View changes to group membership across Active Directory
servers—in one report.
• Manage user accounts, enforce organization standards for user
accounts and monitor changes.
Powerful Enterprise Control and Visibility
• High-level dashboards provide the right level of information
needed to make change, configuration and patch management
processes more effective.
• View details about the changes happening in your IT
environment and track their impact against service levels and
compliance.
• Role-based access controls use of reports and operational
actions based on Active Directory rights, roles and responsibilities.
Find Out More
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1-877-4VMWARE (outside of North America dial +1-650-427-5000),
visit
www.vmware.com/products
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