This same compliance methodology can also be used to remove unwarranted or unsafe software from your systems (e.g., Kazaa).
Configuration Manager allows users to easily create software packages, push packages to systems and guests, automatically find missing software (e.g., antivirus), and remediate to install required software to non-compliant systems. Automate software provisioning and integrate it into compliance enforcement processes.With Configuration Manager, you can deploy vSphere to 'bare metal' and then load operating systems into virtual machine containers or to 'bare metal' systems. Perform physical and virtual system provisioning via a centralized mechanism.Maintain continuous compliance with out-of-the-box templates that contain policy-driven rules, reports and dashboards that ensure security, regulatory and operational compliance.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.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. How Is VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Used? In many cases VCM supports automated enforcement and remediation of noncompliant configurations.
VCM automates critical configuration and compliance management tasks-including configuration data collection, configuration change execution, configuration reporting, change auditing, compliance assessment, patch management, operating system (OS) provisioning and software package distribution. What Is VMware vCenter Configuration Manager?
Accelerate the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing for business-critical applications by addressing security and compliance concerns.Speed time to service restoration by correlating configuration changes tracked within VCM with performance and capacity issues identified by VMware vCenter Operations Manager™.Improve operational effectiveness by continuously auditing configurations of the VMware infrastructure and Windows, Linux and UNIX operating systems.Gain access to compliance toolkits that cover a broad range of standards, including security best practices, vendor hardening guidelines and regulatory mandates. Integrate with vSphere to deliver the fundamental capabilities that support VMware infrastructure hardening, including deep configuration data collection, change tracking and compliance assessment. Configuration compliance can be maintained against internal standards, security best practices, vendor hardening guidelines and regulatory mandates.Īutomate critical configuration and compliance management tasks support configuration management across virtual and physical servers, VMware infrastructure and multiple operating systems. Enterprises can use VCM to continuously audit the configurations of VMware infrastructure (including VMware ESX, ESXi™, vCenter, vCloud Director™ and vShield™) as well as Windows, Linux and UNIX operating systems. VCM is a full-featured configuration-management solution that automates configuration management across virtual, physical and cloud environments. VMware vCenter Configuration Manager™ (VCM)-a key part of the VMware vCenter™ Operations Manager™ suite-delivers capabilities fundamental to ensuring that virtualized and cloud computing environments are properly configured to meet operational, security and compliance requirements. VMware vSphere Remote Office and Branch Office Enterprise.VMware vSphere Remote Office and Branch Office Advanced.VMware vSphere Remote Office and Branch Office Standard.