www.brocade.com ALLIANCE PARTNER SOLUTIONS BRIEF BROCADE IP ANALYTICS PACK FOR VREALIZE OPERATIONS DATA CENTER HIGHLIGHTS •Simplifies network management with physical and virtual interoperability •Delivers intelligent and powerful analytics to support cloud environments •Optimizes application and Virtual Machine (VM) performance through faster troubleshooting •Eases the transition to network virtualization and Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDCs) Maximizing Virtual Network Availability with Physical Network Analytics The data center evolution brings agility, flexibility, and scalability, as organizations move towards SDDCs. Virtual networks are critical to this transition, but they must be closely aligned to the physical infrastructure to ensure benefits. Limited visibility across physical and virtual assets can lead to time wasted on troubleshooting and money wasted on downtime. Brocade VCS Fabric technology helps organizations easily create efficient data center networks that “just work.” Ethernet fabrics built on Brocade VCS Fabric technology provide unmatched automation, efficiency, and VM awareness. They increase flexibility and IT agility, enabling organizations to transition smoothly to elastic, mission-critical networks in highly virtualized cloud data centers. Simplified operations management— including automation, analytics, and interoperability across physical and virtual resources—can ensure that service levels and cost efficiencies are maintained. The Brocade® IP Analytics Pack for vRealize Operations1 helps unite the best aspects of virtual and physical networking to enable SDDCs that deliver simplicity, scalability, and efficient resource utilization. INTEROPERABLE SOLUTION FOR vREALIZE MANAGEMENT SUITE VMware vRealize Operations provides automated operations management using patented analytics and an integrated approach to performance, capacity, and configuration management. vRealize Operations enables IT organizations to gain better visibility and actionable intelligence to proactively ensure service levels, optimum resource usage, and configuration compliance in dynamic virtual and cloud environments. The foundation of the Brocade IP Analytics Pack for vRealize Operations is the innovative Brocade VCS® Fabric technology, which delivers diagnostics 1 The Brocade IP Analytics Pack for VMware vRealize Operations is expected to be available for download from the VMware Solutions Exchange in December 2014. ALLIANCE PARTNER SOLUTIONS BRIEF www.brocade.com ABOUT BROCADE information from Brocade VDX® Ethernet fabric switches to vRealize Operations. This data is classified based on Brocade best practices and is incorporated into risk, health, and efficiency metrics within vRealize Operations. Predefined topology views, queries, and alerts further simplify the process and are easy to customize for specific environments. Virtualization infrastructure teams can use these proactive insights, in conjunction with information from the VMware NSX™ network virtualization platform, to quickly pinpoint network problems and drive new levels of network automation, performance, and availability. LEARN MORE Brocade networking solutions help organizations achieve their critical business initiatives as they transition to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. Today, Brocade is extending its proven data center expertise across the entire network with open, virtual, and efficient solutions built for consolidation, virtualization, and cloud computing. Learn more at www.brocade.com. ABOUT VMware Figure 1. Virtual and physical interoperability with Brocade and VMware. Brocade partners with companies of all sizes to deliver innovative solutions that help organizations maximize the value of their most critical information. To learn more, visit www.brocade.com/alliance. VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver, and consume IT resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2012 revenues of $4.61 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 55,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world. Learn more at www.vmware.com. 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