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12. Cisco Workload Automation Adapter for
VMware
Adapter Overview
Cisco Workload Automation Adapter for VMware
Cisco Workload Automation Adapter for VMware enables companies that use Cisco Workload Automation to
execute a set of VMware processes via a single point of control. The adapter allows users to connect VMware
operations to the enterprise schedule, define them as part of a business process, and monitor VMware
operations, as well as to define and leverage VMware events. Working in concert, this enterprise adapter for
VMware and Cisco Workload Automation schedule and run business processes and manage their required
virtual resources, and incorporating them into the enterprise computing environment.
When virtualization is part of data center topology, this adapter for VMware is used in conjunction with Cisco
Workload Automation to build intelligent automation around managing virtual machine (VM) resources and their
associated operations, and to align the IT infrastructure with business process requirements. In this way Cisco
Workload Automation and Cisco Workload Automation Adapter for VMware can help reduce infrastructure and
software costs by optimizing virtual resources and increasing administrative efficiency.
The Challenges of Workload Automation in a Virtualized World
Businesses are progressively deploying service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based applications and virtualized
environments. Administering these decoupled resources presents tremendous challenges in tracking and
delivering optimum SLA performance for workload management, because in these fluid, dynamic models
computing resources vary in state and physical location. Complexity is increased by the existence of multiple
virtualization vendor tools that are not unified via single pane of glass. Ultimately, these two factors significantly
impact an enterprise’s ability to gain the most efficiency from their virtualized workload processing
environments.
A simple way to gain visibility into and control over business processes in these new environments is to link the
execution of business processes and data center operations tasks. In this way, users can have increased
confidence that business processes will be available, run smoothly and reliably. Optimizing the configuration
state of VMs in the context of a scheduled workload can result in higher data center resources efficiencies and
ultimately, lower VM management costs. This adapter for VMware, combined with Cisco Workload Automation,
addresses these challenges.