Customers can now easily manage their entire VMware virtual Infrastructure from a single console. TotalView is the connection between physical and virtual environments, providing access to control and configure multiple VMWare Servers and Windows hosts at the same time in one view. Deploy software applications, patches, and critical updates. Inventory and audit both physical systems and virtual resources for full hardware and software configurations and changes.

    INSYSTEK anticipates the ability to support a virtually unlimited number of ESX Servers, virtual machines, and guests in the production release of TotalView VMWare. Virtualization Management provider INSYSTEK announced today the latest round of testing results for their new TotalView VMWare management and reporting tools. They have successfully managed over 6000 virtual machines from a single console.

    Using INSYSTEK's TotalView VMWare solution customers will be able to discover and map virtual environments, create virtual machines, track and manage physical and virtual relationships, and automate the lifecycle of a large number of virtual servers and desktops. The extended model Includes all INSYSTEK's baseline configuration audit and historical tracking features.

    "We are extremely please to provide administrators the ability to manage large numbers of virtual machines from a single console. We believe this will provide a definite boost to the adoption of large scale VMWare Infrastructures. There is clear need for enterprise scale virtualization management and reporting tools that allow access to both the physical and virtual environments," stated Alex Turner, president and CEO at INSYSTEK.  

TotalView Features include:
    - Common user interface - Manage VMWare ESX Servers, VirtualCenter, Windows Desktops and Servers from a single console.
    - Discovery, Link and Manage - Auto Discover virtual infrastructure systems and resources and dynamically link physical to virtual machine relationships.
    - TotalView wizards - Wizards automate many administrative functions including the ability to completely replicate inventoried physical systems as image ready virtual machines in a single easy to use wizard for hot site, backups, disaster recovery planning or desktop and server migration.
    - Audit and Track - TotalView technology extends the already comprehensive inventory model for the complete inventory of virtual machines, resource pools and physical servers.
    - System monitoring - Continuously monitor physical servers and virtual machine for availability and utilization from a single interface.
    - Reports - TotalView technology extends INSYSTEK's Crystal Reports features to include all VirtualCenter resources in additional to combined reports that provide a holistic view of the Physical to Virtual environment.