• Release management (building and provisioning) for VM deployments comprising at least two different hypervisor platforms.

• Moving, adding and changing VM instances (life-cycle management) for VM deployments comprising at least two different hypervisor platforms.

• Operational management as facilitated by administrative and user roles using at least two different hypervisor platforms.

• Incident and troubles management consisting of monitoring, alarms, audit. and reports across multiple virtual host platforms.

• Security management for accessibility to VM instances, host operating environments, and applications across multiple host platforms.