As virtual infrastructures become more prevalent and complex, supporting both production server workloads and centralized desktops, the ability to both monitor and manage security throughout that virtual infrastructure becomes vital. Reflex Systems has brought together a new generation of products to create their Secure Virtualization Management suite. The Reflex suite bridges the gaps between virtualization security, network management and root cause analysis.

This FOCUS Brief describes what is driving IT to seek improved security and manageability of the virtual infrastructure, and details Reflex Systems’ Secure Virtualization Management solution, listing key benefits.  The Brief concludes with a FOCUS assessment.

Keywords: security management, virtual infrastructure management, discovery, virtualization, performance management, application management, revision control, fault correlation, root cause analysis, lifecycle management, VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMsafe