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Virtualization Technologies

Leveraging Sophisticated Capabilities in Straightforward Ways

The popularity of virtualization is increasing rapidly, and organizations of all sizes are utilizing various forms of virtualization to maximize hardware investments, reduce energy costs, increase configuration flexibility and streamline application deployment. Still, the options and application of virtualization are varied, and the many ways the technology can be implemented and the subsequent need to manage it can become overly sophisticated, confusing and costly.

The Solution

KACE assists organizations embrace the real return offered by virtualization by delivering systems management solutions that take advantage of three important uses of virtualization technology. Each approach provides unique systems management capabilities combined with the flexibility, resource conservation and cost savings that virtualization promises.

KACE Virtual Kontainers

Application virtualization can improve the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system, making them dramatically simpler to deploy, manage and remove. KACE Virtual Kontainers have made this application virtualization technology an easy-to-use capability of the KBOX Systems Management Appliance. With it, users can easily create, deploy and manage Virtual Kontainers directly from the KBOX console. Virtual Kontainers eliminate such labor intensive application management tasks as regression testing, script creation, repackaging and troubleshooting. Virtual Kontainers presents a number of added benefits:

  • Unparalleled ability to view and control the state of a deployed application
  • Ability to run multiple versions of the same application simultaneously
  • Ability to perform easy rollback to prior versions
  • Effective license control through active metering
  • Execution control to limit when and where applications may be executed
  • Ability to update, patch or modify existing virtual application packages

Virtual KBOX Appliances

For those who have deployed a virtual infrastructure, KACE offers its Systems Deployment Appliance and Systems Management Appliance in virtual models, the Virtual KBOX (V-KBOX). The V-KBOX eliminates the need for dedicated hardware, while delivering all of the comprehensive, easy-to-use and affordable features and capabilities of their physical counterparts. V-KBOX appliances can be deployed on VMware Infrastructure, and because of their virtual nature, they are intrinsically:

  • Affordable, allowing organizations to easily control the amount of hardware dedicated to each appliance and the ability to run multiple V-KBOX instances without additional cost
  • Scalable, because they can be rapidly provisioned, reconfigured and moved
  • Easy to support, because upgrades include all appliance components

Virtual Machine Management

To maximize hardware utilization and reduce energy demands, server virtualization is becoming main stream for organizations of all sizes. The growing number of mixed physical and virtual machine environments has exacerbated existing management challenges, including systems deployment, hardware and software inventory, asset management, patch management, license compliance, administration and security. KBOX appliances provide the integrated functionality to simplify these systems management tasks in mixed virtual and physical environments including: