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| What is the athene® Virtual Appliance? |
athene® Virtual Appliance is a pre-built, pre-configured, ready-to-run capacity management solution packaged within a Virtual Machine. |
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| Download information |
 VMware Player must be installed on your machine to run the athene® Virtual Appliance - Download the player here |
| When the VMware Player is installed you can install the athene® Virtual Appliance - Download the athene® Virtual Appliance |
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| Customers can now use athene® Capacity Management software for virtual and physical infrastructure free of charge for 30 days. Because athene® Virtual Appliance is contained within a Virtual Machine, users can literally plug athene® securely and efficiently into their existing environments with minimal effort. |
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| Metron's athene® Virtual Appliance offers a range of features to enable you to analyze performance and capacity across your entire estate. The software within the athene® Virtual Appliance supports use on VMware servers, other leading virtualization platforms and all leading physical environments including UNIX, Windows, z/OS, Linux, iSeries and VMS. You can use the athene® Virtual Appliance to report on and create trends of behavior and analytically model future scenarios to optimize configurations and minimize on-going costs. |
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| athene® Virtual Appliance is also available as a download from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace and as part of the VMware Capacity Management Service Acceleration kit available to VMware Professional Services Organization (PSO) and VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC) partners. |
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| athene® VIRTUAL APPLIANCE BENEFITS |
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Optimize on-going capacity |
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Minimize over-spending on hardware |
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Avoid the costs of performance crises |
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Guarantee service levels |
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Alert on trends to know when a capacity issue will begin to emerge |
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Model how to avoid potential performance problems |
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Evaluate tuning and management strategies in advance, not in crisis mode |
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| METRON AND VMware: LIFECYCLE CAPACITY MANAGEMENT |
| Capacity Management forms a key element in Operational Readiness. After migration has been sized using the VMware Capacity Assessment, use athene® for day to day capacity management of the complete environment. athene® supports VMware as well as all other leading virtual and physical environments, enabling you to provide common capacity management processes, reports and a centralized capacity database across the entire enterprise. |
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| Supported by Metron's 22 years of experience as a specialist in capacity management, athene® provides a full three tier capacity management implementation in line with the ITIL® 'good practice' framework. Through partnership with VMware, this expertise, good practice and cross-platform cost-effective capacity management solution is available to VMware users. |
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| PARTNERS: Service Acceleration Kit for Capacity Management |
| For VMware partners, a joint Metron-VMware Service Acceleration Kit (SAK) is available providing all the commercial and technical collateral required to generate revenue from the provision of capacity management services and software sales to your clients. The SAK provides a proven methodology on which to base the ongoing capacity management of enterprise scale VMware Virtual Infrastructure. |
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| The VMware SAK utilizes Metron's long-standing experience in capacity management and the proven strength of its athene® software. |
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| VMware SAK for Capacity Management comprises: |
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A free 30 day trial of the athene® Virtual Appliance |
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Capacity Management best practice descriptions and demonstrations |
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Quick Start Workshop |
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Extensive marketing support documentation |
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Case studies and success stories |
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Licensing, pricing and support details |
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| For further details on the VMware SAK go to: http://www.vmware.com/partners/partners.html or contact Metron at sales@metron-athene.com |
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| VMware Solutions Brief Factsheet available here |
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| Download the: athene® Virtual Appliance Getting Started Guide .pdf before using the Appliance. |
| DOWNLOAD THE athene® VIRTUAL APPLIANCE |
