What's New in Surgient Virtual Automation Platform 7

Surgient is pleased to announce version 7 of the Surgient Virtual Automation Platform™, designed to addresses the service delivery challenges of global 2000 IT with enterprise-class, self-service infrastructure delivery for virtual and physical environments.

Among its several enhancements, Version 7 includes new integrations with HP Server Automation and Network Automation, as well as VMware vSphere 4, enabling IT organizations to provide enterprise-class, just-in-time service delivery for mixed virtual and physical environments to their business users.

The Surgient Virtual Automation Platform 7 features a number of infrastructure upgrades for enhanced openness, enterprise-class scalability, and more flexibility for IT operations.

NEW INTEGRATION WITH HP SERVER AUTOMATION, NETWORK AUTOMATION
Jointly Manage, Deploy, & Recover Mixed Virtual / Physical Environments with Self-Service

Leverage Investments in Script-Based Automation to Provision Virtual Infrastructure

• Define & deploy base image development environment
• Construct environment using HP SA OS sequence
• Capture completed environment for self-service use

Deploy Self-Service Physical Servers with HP Data Center Automation

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HIGH AVAILABILITY, AUTOMATED MAINTENANCE WINDOWS WITH VMWARE VSPHERE 4
Ensure High Availability and Maintainability of Self-Service, Self-Managed Infrastructure


Guarantee High Availability and Automate Failover for Self-Service Infrastructure

• 1+ standby servers/pool guarantee failover capacity
• Maintain integrity for complex, multi-tiered services
• Maintains integrity of all current and future reservations



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ELASTIC SERVICES THAT SCALE TO CAPACITY REQUIREMENTS
Scale Elastic IT Services to Meet Changing Business Needs

• Add servers to a live service to dynamically address spikes in user demand
• Remove servers when demand declines to save operating expenses
• Adjust the topology of long-running deployed services without impacting users


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ENTERPRISE-CLASS ENVIRONMENT ENHANCEMENTS


Leverage Updated, Streamlined UI for Delivering Online Training

• Allow instructors to use different configuration than students
• Enable instructors to start class deployments early while maintaining reservation



Smooth Installation and Upgrades with Surgient Self-Test

• Checks communication between all Surgient components
• Performs a test deployment to confirm readiness



Streamline On-Boarding of Surgient Users from LDAP / Active Directory

• Synchronize user details between Surgient and LDAP/AD
• Provide Surgient access to authenticated LDAP/AD users – without creating them in Surgient first


Use Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

• Surgient 7.0 provides heterogeneous hypervisor support for the latest release of Microsoft’s Hyper-V


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