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VMware announced an upcoming technology preview will be available in April for vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA). Srinivas Krishnamurti, Director of Product Management and Market Development for VMware, provided a guest post on the VMTN Blog with news about new project. Introducing VMware vCenter Mobile Access describes vCMA as a virtual appliance that will allow admins to monitor and manage their VMware virtual infrastructure from a mobile phone with what appears to be most of the same functionality available from the VI Client.

Here’s some details from Srinivas’ post about vCMA:

“Did you ever get paged when you are in a meeting about some virtual machine that needed to be restarted?  Or, did you ever get an alert when you are at your kid’s soccer game or at the movies that a particular server is overloaded?  Actually, imagine any scenario where you need to actively manage your datacenter but you are nowhere close to a PC.  Wouldn’t it be nice to act on the notification from your mobile phone?  After all, we are now a generation that doesn’t leave home without a mobile phone…

Introducing VMware vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA).  vCMA allows you to monitor and manage VMware Infrastructure from your mobile phone with an interface that is optimized for such devices. Specifically, it allows you to:

• Search for virtual machines in your data center
• Migrate virtual machines from one host to another using vMotion
• Execute recovery plans using VMware Site Recovery Manager
• Access Scheduled Tasks, Alarms and Events
• And much more…”

This YouTube video shows off the vCMA on a Blackberry.

VMware already has a discussion forum dedicated to vCMA, and you will be able to download the preview release from there once it is available.

vCMA is the second mobile phone VMware VI administration product I have covered this week. I also posted about Rove’s Mobile Admin 4.2.

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