Although VMware’s website still has a landing page for VMware vCenter ConfigControl, the rumour goes that this product will be rebranded into vCenter Change Insight. This soon to be released new product is able to track, analyze, assess and take corrective actions to maintain configuration integrity. It’s also able to setup policies to invoke workflows on a selected set of entities, upon a schedule or an event.
The preliminary feature list looks very promising
- Auto-documents environment, all entities, relationships, dependencies
- Tracks and alerts on configuration and relationship changes real time
- Assesses configurations against past, peers and best practices
- Takes corrective actions via policies (e.g. call out to Orchestrator)
Benefits
- Risk mitigation through improved visibility into ripple through effects
- Improve opex through visibility and streamlined remediation
- Integrates with existing products and processes
- Track, analyze, assess & take corrective actions to maintain configuration integrity
With the integration of vCenter Change Insight and Orchestrator you’re able to make custom mass configuration changes and corrections.
You better keep a close watch on the new vSphere Team blog "vThink IT", were David Friedlander and Bogomil Balkansky already have posted their first articles.
