VMWare Alliance

VMware and Altiris are joint development partners, working to improve manageability of the VMware virtual environments. Focusing on three key areas, Altiris supports deployment of the VMware virtual environment, awareness of VMware sessions (as reflected in hardware and software inventory), and ongoing, remote management of VMware environments.

How Altiris lowers the cost and complexity of virtual machine management

Initial Provisioning of VMware ESX and GSX Servers

• Bare-metal to fully configured virtual machine in one job
• A single console for provisioning and managing both physical and virtual servers

• Centralized view of all physical and virtual servers
• Visual mapping of how virtual servers relate to their physical hosts

• Create Virtual Machines
• Start/Stop/Suspend/Resume Virtual Machines
• Add and Commit Snapshots

Manage virtual machines as easily as their physical counterparts

• Track software licenses installed on each virtual machine
• Audit configuration vulnerabilities on active and inactive virtual machines and their physical hosts 
• Proactively patch and distribute software to VMs
• Policy-based patch and software management keeps virtual machines up-to-date, regardless of where they are hosted
• Integrated software packaging, preflight testing, and conflict analysis

Read the white paper Managed Virtualization: Standardized Configuration Management for Virtual and Physical Environments 

Read the white paper Managed Virtualization: Using Altiris Deployment Solution 6.8 to Provision and Manage VMware VI3 

Read the Altiris Support for Virtualization statement