Scalent Brings Combined Virtual and Bare Metal Management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Scalent Systems, provider of real-time Management & Automation software for large data centers, and Red Hat today announced Scalent’s support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Xen. The combined solution extends virtualization and data center automation beyond hypervisors, to bare metal servers, network and storage connectivity.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provides IT managers unprecedented levels of operational flexibility, via a comprehensive suite of open source server applications and virtualization capabilities . Scalent V/OE enables IT managers to rapidly provision entire virtual or bare metal servers and associated storage and network topologies, yielding higher asset utilization and dramatically lower costs.

Scalent’s software provides real time data center management, automation, and virtualization across physical and virtual servers, networks, and storage. Highly complementary to Red Hat’s Linux Automation efforts, the Scalent V/OE software enables data centers to react in real-time to changing business needs by shifting workloads and connectivity.

The result: data centers can transition between different configurations – or from bare metal to live, connected servers – in five minutes or less, without physical intervention.

Scalent’s software complements Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Linux Automation capabilities by delivering fully transparent management & automation of software workloads and connectivity across bare metal and virtual environments, including:

• Simple, transparent deployment, automation, and management of both virtual and physical servers, network connectivity and storage access
• Cost-effective high availability and server failover solutions, through Scalent’s N+1 technology leveraging existing IT assets
• Fully-automated disaster recovery across data centers, through Scalent’s disaster recovery technology;
• Creation of server pools that enable server rightsizing and scalability through dynamic repurposing; and
• Effective chargeback capabilities, logical, secure partitioning, and named pools of resources for rapid change of operational lab or production environments.