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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.

 
Download information
arrow VMware Player must be installed on your machine to run the Athene Virtual Appliance - Download the player here
arrow When the VMware Player is installed you can install the Athene Virtual Appliance - Download the Athene Virtual Appliance
 
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.
 
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, zOS, 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.
 
Further information on VMware Virtual Appliances can be found at www.vmware.com/appliances/deploy/why.html
 
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.
 
ATHENE VIRTUAL APPLIANCE BENEFITS
arrow Optimize on-going capacity
arrow Minimize over-spending on hardware
arrow Avoid the costs of performance crises
arrow Guarantee service levels
arrow Alert on trends to know when a capacity issue will begin to emerge
arrow Model how to avoid potential performance problems
arrow Evaluate tuning and management strategies in advance, not in crisis mode
 
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.
 
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 ITILŪ 'good practice' framework. Through partnership with VMware, this expertise, good practice and cross-platform cost-effective capacity management solution is available to VMware users.
 
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.
 
The VMware SAK utilizes Metron's long-standing experience in capacity management and the proven strength of its Athene software.
 
VMware SAK for Capacity Management comprises:
arrow A free 30 day trial of the Athene Virtual Appliance
arrow Capacity Management best practice descriptions and demonstrations
arrow Quick Start Workshop
arrow Extensive marketing support documentation
arrow Case studies and success stories
arrow Licensing, pricing and support details
 
For further details on the VMware SAK go to: http://www.vmware.com/partners/partners.html or contact Metron at sales@metron.co.uk
 
Download the: Athene Virtual Appliance Getting Started Guide .pdf before using the Appliance.