| Features | Benefits |
| Policy-based Automation | - Deliver higher service levels to businesses while reducing IT costs
- Simplifies administration by reducing the amount of hands-on management required from an administrator
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| Policy Driven Dynamic Resource Management (DRM) | - Simplifies administration, reduces human interaction with system, reduces administrative cost
- Configurable policies ensure that demand and supply are optimally matched to remove bottlenecks and meet business demands
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| Resource Aware High Availability (HA) | - Maximizes use of existing resources for HA, removes need for dedicated HA servers, leverages DRM for intelligent placement
- Allows IT departments to target 100% availability without the enormous cost of full hardware redundancy. Platform VMO requires only one server’s worth of free resources to protect against server failure
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| Self-Service VM management | - Deliver VMs to end-users faster
- Reduce administration by giving users more control and allows admins to focus more time on value-added activities to reap the full benefits of virtualization
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| Web-based administration and control | - Allows accessibility from anywhere
- No client to install, all users share the same interface, available from any operating system
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| Consumer and Resource Plans | - Allow multiple users to share a single virtual environment while maintaining user resource quotas
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| Tracking and planning tools | - Allow administrators to plan for the future of the virtualization environment
- Provide data used for chargeback purposes
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| Open architecture | - Allow administrators to continue to leverage their investment in existing systems management tools by integrating Platform VMO using standard interfaces
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| Packaged virtual appliance | - Pre-configured packaging of Platform VMO as a Citrix XenServer virtual appliance makes installation fast, easy and flexible
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