VMware vCenter Management

Jamcracker’s Digital Marketplace integrates with VMware vCenter to deliver self-service private cloud management. It automates provisioning, lifecycle management, governance, and chargeback while optimizing resources and costs. With built-in ITOps and FinOps automation, multi-level access controls, vApp support, and BYOS for DevOps, it empowers enterprises, MSPs, and SIs to enhance agility, efficiency, and compliance across their virtual infrastructure.

Managing private cloud environments can be complex and time-consuming. To address these challenges, Enterprises, SI’s and MSP’s are adopting self-service solutions. Jamcracker's Digital Marketplace allows users with the flexibility and control they need to efficiently manage their private cloud resources.

Need for Self-Service in Private Cloud

IT administrators and internal users within these organizations require a fully automated self-service experience to streamline their operations. This empowers them to independently manage their private cloud resources, reducing reliance on IT teams and accelerating time-to-market for new applications and services.

Jamcracker's Marketplace: Your One-Stop Shop for Self-Service Private Cloud Management

Jamcracker's Marketplace platform offers a comprehensive solution to address these needs. With its seamless integrating with VMware vCenter 7.x, the platform provides a flexible framework for automating both ITOps (IT operations) and FinOps (Financial operations), enabling organizations to achieve cloud governance and optimize resource utilization.

Key Benefits of Using Jamcracker's Digital Marketplace:

• Self-Service Portal: A user-friendly portal serves both internal and external users to:
1. Provision and manage virtual machines, storage, and network resources.
2. Monitor resource usage and performance.
3. Automate routine tasks.
• Accelerated Time-to-Market: Quickly deploy new applications and services without manual intervention.
• Enhanced Operational Efficiency: Streamline workflows and reduce operational overhead.
• Improved Cost Control: Optimize resource utilization and reduce unnecessary expenses.
• Enhanced Security and Compliance: Enforce granular access controls and compliance.

Key Features of Jamcracker's Marketplace:

• Simple to set-up and connect with the existing vCenter environment.
• Customer Account Mapping: Accurately map customers to their respective resources, ensuring granular control and security.
• Provisioning and Lifecycle Management: Automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of critical infrastructure resources, including:
1. Compute resources (VMs)
2. Block storage
3. Block volumes
4. Disks
5. NFS data stores
6. Network resources (NSX-T, Distributed switches & load balancers)
7. vApp Support: Create and manage vApps, including application templates, IP allocation policies, and resource mapping.
• NFS Data Store Management: Efficiently manage NFS data stores and trigger events like mounting data stores for vCenter and ESXi hosts.
• IT Governance: Define and enforce IT governance policies to monitor and automate tasks, ensuring compliance and security.
• Financial Governance: Implement financial governance policies to manage spending and allocate costs effectively.
• Resource Pooling and Allocation: Create resource pools and allocate vCenter resources at the VM, project, or department level.
• Chargeback: Enable chargeback at the department, LOB, or project level to promote cost accountability.
• BYOS (Bring Your Own Script): Integrate with DevOps tools to allow developers, architects, and IT operations teams to automate tasks using their own scripts.

By leveraging Jamcracker's pre-built VMware vCenter integration, organizations can maximize the potential of their private cloud environments.