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VAPServer™: Plug-and-Play Infrastructure Management for ANY Open Systems Enterprise
What is the VAPServer?
The VAPServer is a self-contained hardware appliance that allows you to quickly implement hardened infrastructure management tools for any Open System enterprise. When you introduce the VAPServer into your enterprise, you install the hardware appliance on your network, then apply thin, feature-rich agents to the hosts you want to all hosts to which you want to provide service.
The VAPServer allows you to introduce the CM_SAFE™ configuration file management tool into your enterprise quickly and without disrupting your existing enterprise.
CM_SAFE: Configuration File Management for Open Systems Enterprises
The VAPServer hardware appliance features CM_SAFE, a robust configuration file management system for Open Systems servers. CM_SAFE provides your system administrators with the power to exercise the following control functions over your enterprise configuration files:
- Store server configuration files for individual hosts or groups of hosts in a centralized configuration repository.
- Use robust analysis tools to isolate misconfigurations that cause problems in your enterprise's operation.
- Restore previous versions of configuration files, allowing your system administrators to fix problems caused by misconfigurations with a single command.
- Create Disaster Recovery Kits (DRKs™) that store configuration assets for your hosts in recovery images that can be restored with a single command.
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The CM_SAFE Advantage
When you use CM_SAFE, you can easily perform the following functions:
- View records of all changes made to system configuration files.
- Allow testing and production state rollbacks to previous known-working configurations.
- Quickly build a replacement server.
- Facilitate the use of baseline forward commits to perform root-cause analysis of problems.
- Create enterprise-wide configuration disaster recovery plans.
- Create reproducible quality assurance baselines.
- Document who makes or requests configuration changes.
- Integrate change-control activity into your current systems maintenance processes.
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The VAPServer Advantage
- Easy-to-use appliance that generally requires no user intervention to assure continued operation.
- Flexible, allowing VAPServer functionality to be available to any organization with an open systems environment.
- Extensible, allowing more agents to be added as your enterprise grows.
- Expandable to allow the addition of more VAPs as they are developed.
- Independent, providing VAPServer functionality, without requiring a server footprint on your hosts.
- Self-contained, quickly and easily replaced in the unlikely event of a hardware failure.
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DataCenter Lite
Supports: up to 50 agents
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DataCenter
Supports: up to 250 agents
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EnterPrise
Supports: over 250 agents
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Prices starting at $11,250
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Starting at under $25,000 for 50 agents
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Starting at under $67,000 for 250 agents
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- Provides enterprise-quality infrastructure control tools to small and medium businesses.
- Extremely low cost-of-entry
- Perfect for very small open-systems business computing enterprises.
- Easy-to-use interface: perfect for systems administrators with other duties.
- Perfect for small prototypes & pilot projects, especially when testing and development require significant levels of change.
- Can easily be combined with existing VAPServer communities.
- Easily upgrades to DataCenter edition.
- Upgrades to Enterprise edition with insertion of upgraded VAPServer configured for enterprise management.
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- Provides enterprise-quality infrastructure control tools for individual branch offices or divisions.
- Economical solution for small and growing businesses.
- Perfect for implementing in preparation for merging a set of hosts with an enterprise already protected by VAPServers.
- Intuitive, allowing your system administrators to quickly learn and exploit its robust tool set, while still handling their other responsibilities.
- Can easily absorb smaller VAPServer communities or be combined with larger VAPServer communities.
- Upgrades to Enterprise edition with insertion of upgraded VAPServer configured for enterprise management.
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- Single infrastructure-control tool for your entire enterprise, eliminating patchwork sets of tools that can vary between hosts.
- Simple-to-use functionality provides a baseline tool for all your systems administrators, regardless of experience, skillset, or supported platform.
- Economical tool for complete, enterprise-wide systems management requirements.
- Designed to handle the stress and volume of large business-computing enterprises.
- Can easily absorb existing VAPServer communities.
- Can combine with other Enterprise VAPServer communities to support very large, distributed computing enterprises.
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Copyright © 2002, GMx Solutions, LLC. All rights reserved.
Patents pending. CM_SAFE™, Virtual Appliances™, VAP™, VAPServer™ and Orchestrate Your Enterprise™ are trademarks of GMx Solutions, LLC. Other company, product and services names may be trademarks or service marks of others. Some information in this document addresses anticipated future capabilities.
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| Don't let your enterprise get caught |
EBay
June 1999 -
22 hour outage
- Software upgrade error
- Lost revenue: $3 - 5 million
- Lost market value: $5 billion
Source:
Gartner Group
August 1999 -
11 hour outage
Source:
The Toronto Star
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