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AT A G L ANCE
VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager
(formerly EMC Ionix Application Discovery
Manager) provides the automated, real-time
application discovery and dependency mapping
capability you need to accelerate data center
moves, precisely plan infrastructure
consolidations, and confidently virtualize your
business critical applications.
B EN EFITS
• Get and keep a fast and accurate data center
view – across virtual and physical
• Precise visibility into all application interactions
via network-based approach
• Eye-opening discovery of unknown, unwanted,
and unexpected application behaviors and
dependencies
• Before you make a change, understand all
infrastructure and application relationships
• Quick deployment and low-impact through
unique agentless technology
D A T A S H E E T
Passive, agentless dynamic discovery and mapping
vCenter Application Discovery Manager
Automated Application Dependency Mapping
What is vCenter
Application Discovery
Manager?
Application Discovery Manager is an enterprise datacenter
management solution that utilizes agentless, continuous
dependency mapping—across physical & virtual application
infrastructures—so you can quickly gain an understanding of
your service dependencies with unparalleled accuracy and
efficiency. Whether you are moving a datacenter, virtualizing
applications, building a site recovery plan, or moving a service
to the cloud, an accurate application dependency map is an
essential first step.
How Is vCenter Application Discovery Manager Used?
Application Discovery Manager’s real-time, automated dependency
mapping allows enterprises to drive quick and accurate application
virtualization and datacenter blueprinting projects. It eliminates
reliance on “tribal knowledge” and guesswork, helps IT teams
avoid change-induced service outages, degradations, and failures,
and populates third-party or homegrown CMDBs or CMSs.
Accurately map dependencies before virtualizing applications
to fully understand existing dependencies and behaviors.
Quickly blueprint applications for datacenter consolidations,
moves, and DR plans
to precisely plan infrastructure changes.
Eliminate reliance on tribal knowledge
to eliminate guesswork
and understand the potential impact of a change before the
change is made .
Populate CMDBs
to add accurate application dependency
relationships and keep discovery data current.
How Does vCenter Application Discovery
Manager Work?
Application Discovery Manager is the only application dependency
mapping solution that provides real-time, agentless discovery via
application flow analysis to continuously and passively track
application dependencies, demand, usage, and change events.
