Symantec Corp. announced enhancements to its Veritas Cluster Server for VMware ESX and Veritas Application Director solutions which strengthen VMware environments for production use and simplify management of virtual machines in the data center.

Cluster Server for VMware ESX, an enterprise-class high availability and disaster recovery solution now provides expanded support for critical business application environments, and enhances disaster recovery capabilities with broader data replication support.

Application Director introduces heterogeneous virtual machine management capabilities to control virtual machines and optimize server resource utilization in large data centers with hundreds or even thousands of physical servers and virtual machines.