On April 1, 2010, VMware acquired several products from the EMC Ionix family of IT infrastructure management solutions. As part of the acquisition, VMware will provide the following products:
- EMC Ionix Service Manager (also formerly known as InfraEnterprise) will become VMware Service Manager
- EMC Ionix Application Discovery Manager (also formerly known as nLayers Application Discovery Manager) will become VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager
- EMC Ionix Server Configuration Manager (also formerly known as Configuresoft Enterprise Configuration Manager) will become VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
- EMC Ionix Application Stack Manager (also formerly known as FastScale Application Stack Manager) will become VMware vCenter Application Stack Manager and will be sold as part of vCenter Configuration Manager
- EMC Ionix Configuration Analytics Manager (also formerly known as Configuresoft Configuration Intelligence Analytics) will become VMware vCenter Configuration Analytics Manager