9 June 2009

Fujitsu has released its ServerView Resource Coordinator VE (RCVE) server management software, which enables the creation of dynamic infrastructures from virtual and physical servers in datacentres and cloud computing environments.

Fujitsu is delivering a powerful new tool that enables dramatic simplification, streamlining and cost savings through the effective, consolidated management of holistic server resources

Akira Yamanaka, Fujitsu  RCVE harnesses all physical and virtual resources within complex IT server topologies – including cloud computing environments – providing simplified, unified management and ensuring that resources are dynamically optimised to deliver best performance at all times.

Server virtualisation has added a new dimension to datacentre management, as arrays of virtual machines are hosted by individual physical servers, all of which must be managed. This has led to increasing complexity and management cost for IT administrators, including patch management, routine maintenance and break-fix.

Furthermore, effective server farm management demands that that optimal system resources are automatically allocated at all times. RCVE offers the simplified, uniform, automated management of diverse, heterogeneous pools of virtual and physical servers, and provides intuitive server lifecycle management from a graphics-based management console.

In addition to Primergy blade servers, RCVE supports Primergy rack and tower servers as well as x86 servers from other vendors. It also integrates leading virtualisation hypervisors including Microsoft Hyper-V.

Fujitsu says that RCVE delivers large savings in hardware costs as well as greater system utilisation without increasing downtime. Through simplifying and automating lifecycle operations, the software can reduce the time for deploying or exchanging servers by up to 90 per cent.

“The management and allocation of server resources has become intrinsically more complex thanks to virtualisation and the trend towards cloud computing,” said Akira Yamanaka, corporate senior vice president of Fujitsu. “With Resource Coordinator VE, Fujitsu is delivering a powerful new tool that enables dramatic simplification, streamlining and cost savings within the datacentre, through the effective, consolidated management of holistic server resources.”

RCVE is a core component of the Dynamic Cube, the new-generation Primergy BX900 blade server system.

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