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Data Sheet

Cisco Tidal Enterprise Adapter for VMware

Introduction to Enterprise Scheduling and Adapters

IT operations that focus on the automation of business processes involve integrating a wide range of custom and

enterprise applications and the infrastructure on which they run, often with complex interdependencies. In such

environments, IT typically uses job scheduling tools to control batch and event-driven processing, which are vital to

the success of a range of business operations from sales to manufacturing to financial management.

For the past decade, Cisco

Tidal Enterprise Scheduler has been defining standards for job scheduling usability,

scalability, and breadth of coverage. The role of the many adapters available for Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler

is to make connectivity, control, and visibility of diverse technologies accessible directly through the scheduler user

interface (UI). The breadth of coverage these adapters provide simplifies end-to-end scheduling of processes

across the enterprise.

Product Overview

Cisco Tidal Enterprise Adapter for VMware

Cisco Tidal Enterprise Adapter for VMware enables companies that use Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler 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 the

enterprise scheduler 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 Tidal

Enterprise Scheduler 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

Tidal Enterprise Scheduler and Cisco Tidal Enterprise Adapter for VMware can help reduce infrastructure and

software costs by optimizing virtual resources and increasing administrative efficiency.

The Challenges of Enterprise Scheduling 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 Tidal Enterprise

Scheduler, addresses these challenges.