Users Guide

– Full lifecycle management of physical and virtual infrastructure and workloads.

• Deep virtualization integration — Manage cluster-level and virtual machine (VM) lifecycle.

• Resource pooling and dynamic allocation — Optimize capital expenditures by creating and

managing physical and virtual IT resource pools.

• Radically simplified management — Powerful and intuitive user interface that makes it easy to set up,

deploy, and manage your IT environment and enables simplified integration with third party tools.

• Open and extensible — An architecture that integrates with the IT of today and tomorrow; this means

being able to plug a new solution into your existing architecture, as well as giving you flexibility in the

future to adopt new technical innovations.

ASM makes it easy to automate IT service delivery and to manage your IT environment end-to-end. You

can improve and accelerate service and infrastructure delivery, maximize efficiency across your IT service

lifecycle, and consistently achieve high-quality IT services.