Vmware has showcased four new virtual machine management products that bring automation of IT service delivery and business continuity to the datacentre.

VMware virtual machines are suited for capturing and automating IT processes. VMware virtual machines encapsulate applications and operating systems in standardized, hardware-independent packages that can be changed, moved and manipulated. VMware’s new management products take advantage of the mobility and manageability characteristics of virtual machines to deliver scalable, repeatable and efficient IT. The products also leverage VMware VMotionT and the virtual machine packaging of an application and operating system to provide one uniform way to capture and automate processes.

VMware’s new products leverage virtual machines to automate the steps of the IT service delivery and business continuity processes, eliminating repetitive, rote tasks and minimising the margin for error.

VMware is introducing three IT service delivery products: VMware Lifecycle Manager, VMware Lab Manager and VMware Stage Manager. Each product extends the VMware Infrastructure platform and uses virtual machines and VMware VMotion to enable automation throughout the entire lifecycle of service delivery.

For Business Continuity, VMware demonstrated VMware Site Recovery Manager, which can make disaster recovery more rapid, reliable, and manageable. VMware Site Recovery Manager uses hardware- and operating system–independent mobile virtual machines to deliver a solution, which can make disaster recovery more rapid, reliable, manageable, and affordable. VMware Site Recovery Manager delivers centralized management of recovery plans, automates the recovery process, and enables dramatically better testing of recovery plans.