According to Gartner, through to 2012, investments in automation technology will have the highest ROl. Charterhouse's 'Lifecycle in a box' management solution is based upon VMware Lifecycle Manager product and means that you will be able to deliver increased responsiveness to your business whilst minimising business risk and improving compliance with policies and procedures that will automate the entire lifecycle of your virtual severs.
'Lifecycle in a box'
Charterhouse's VMware based 'Lifecycle In a box' solution enables you to track and control virtual machines through a consistent approval process across their entire lifecycle. From provisioning to operation to ultimate decommissioning of the virtual machine, the solution addresses the need for compliance with existing IT and business procedures. Responding to one-off requests in addition to using manual procedures to deploy virtual machines can be eliminated and replaced by a consistent process that can be followed across the entire business.
Solution tailored for automation and control in the virtualised environment
Packaged solution for managing VM lifecycle, leveraging best practices
Tightly integrated with VMware VirtualCenter
Pain Points
Lack of visibility and tracking of virtual machines
Hard to maintain control of virtual infrastructure
Wasting time on manual and repetitive tasks
Solutions
Control business and user requests - Your 'Lifecycle in a box' solution will enable you to handle end user requests in a consistent manner in line with your companies policies and procedures by providing an approval process for obtaining a new virtual machine or making changes to an existing one.
Reduce virtual infrastructure management costs - Intelligently add automation to eliminate manual or repetitive tasks by automating the deployment of VMs if requests fall within established standards. In addition you will be able to automatically decommission, archive, and delete VMs for better resource utilisation.
Utilise existing investment - The Charterhouse 'Lifecycle in a box' management solution will integrate with existing operational tools such as VirtualCenter as well as your 3rd party tools for functions such as CMDB, Asset Management, Ticketing Systems and IT Process/Run Book Automation.
Specialise -Charterhouse's solution is tailored to manage automation in the virtual environment and included with your package will be five lifecycle management policies that we will tailor and implement specifically for you. Charterhouse will walk you through these solutions and ensure that your team are comfortable with their operation as part of your service.
'Lifecycle in a box' 
