Virtualization Management

Windward leverages its years of operational management expertise to deliver virtualization management capabilities.
Capabilities are typically delivered through a combination of VMware’s management suite, the client’s existing management tools, and 3rd party technologies to fill in gaps.

Windward focuses on the following areas of Virtual Infrastructure management: 

•  Fault and Performance Monitoring
          - Real-time availability and performance of the virtual infrastructure 

• Capacity planning 
          - Forecasting physical and virtual resource workloads and required investments 

•  Data Protection 
          - Protection of virtual machines through high availability, replication, backup and
            recovering mechanisms. 

• Provisioning and Runbook Automation
          - Automation of virtual machine and resource provisioning and maintenance activities. 

• Configuration Management
          - Discovery and mapping of physical and virtual configuration items, their relationships,
            especially as they move dynamically, and their support for IT and business services. 

• Accounting Management
          - Usage of virtual resources by organizations and customers, and on the allocation of
            charges to these entities.