Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is the newest addition in the Oracle Enterprise Manager family. It is used to manage both physical and virtual systems, and manages across the entire system lifecycle from discovery to provisioning, updating, monitoring and management.

Features in Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center include:

• Full lifecycle management of Oracle Solaris Containers and Oracle VM Server for SPARC (formerly known as Logical Domains or LDoms): provides customers a single place to manage both their physical and virtual infrastructure, simplifying IT management and speeding resolution of performance issues.

• Support for Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade: allows customers to automatically patch and update Oracle Solaris systems with Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center's software dependency engine; without needing to bring down those systems.

• Built-in knowledge of Oracle software and Sun systems: provides the ability to automate and achieve operational standards faster. With active management of the service processor, virtual stack, and operating environments, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center enables systems to be placed into production faster.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is available immediately through the following packaging options:

• Ops Center Provisioning and Patch Automation: provides server and operating system (OS) discovery, OS and firmware provisioning and updating, server and OS monitoring, and resource management.

• Ops Center Virtualization Management Pack: provides Solaris Containers and Oracle VM Server for SPARC virtual guest lifecycle management, resource monitoring and management, resource pools, and workload migration.

Announcing the release of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, and introducing the the Oracle Management Connector for Ops Center, Systems Management VP Steve Wilson explains that these solutions are more than "a mere re-skinning of Sun Ops Center ... A central focus for us is to ensure that customers have a single, integrated, powerful set of tools that manage the combination of Oracle's infrastructure and application software with Sun's OS and hardware."

Wilson offers screenshots to show examples of what users can actually do with these new tools.

Oracle is working on integrating Sun assets into its technology base due to its $7.4 billion acquisition of the company. It has spent the latter part of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 working to integrate applications into its existing portfolios, in order to build complete stacks that can be offered to customers as end-to-end packages. "We have a deep interest in the systems business," Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told an audience at the Churchill Club, in San Jose, Calif., in September 2009. "We've already beaten IBM in software. Now we want to beat them in systems."

Also commenting on the announcement, Richard Sarwal, Oracle's senior vice president of Product Development, said in a statement: "As the number of servers proliferates and the adoption of virtualization accelerates, organizations are becoming increasingly challenged with the complexity of managing their global IT infrastructure. With the addition of Ops Center to the Oracle Enterprise Manager product family, customers will be able to gain key insights into the capacity and health of their systems, enabling them to take proactive steps to increase flexibility and efficiency and decrease operational costs."

More Information

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Product Page

Oracle Management Connector for Ops Center

Product Page for the Oracle Management Connector for Ops Center [...read more...]

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