VMTurbo Operations Manager 4.0 Available ($699 per CPU)

VMTurbo Inc. announced the
availability of Operations
Manager 4.0.

Its architecture
consists of an extensible framework that includes the company’s
patented analytic engine, with a number of plug-in modules. The
platform enables control across all layers of the interdependent IT
stack, with the last revision’s modules for storage and hybrid
clouds.

"Server virtualization is forcing a transformation of data
center management beyond the ad-hoc fragmentation and limitations of
current systems," said Paul Burns, president, Neovise LLC.
"When it comes to managing today’s virtualized workloads,
what’s needed is coordinated control of the whole stack supporting
virtualized applications, including automatic determination of the
right mix of resources needed to meet workload requirements and
business objectives, while operating for maximum ROI."

Technology teams, operational processes and management tools are
typically partitioned along technology boundaries, often leading to
fragmentation of processes, as well as decision-making that does not
take the entire environment and all the constraints and
interdependencies that exist within the environment into account.
This offers a modular architecture that enables increased visibility
and holistic control of the infrastructure operations.

Optimizing Storage and Hybrid Cloud Environments
The software addresses the virtualized compute, storage, and
converged fabric resources, and supports multiple hypervisors from a
single instance. Extensions for storage and hybrid clouds enable
greater control.

• Storage Extension – By extending control actions to the
  back-end of datastores via its storage resource controller, it
  achieves granular instrumentation to support decision-making and
  control of storage and workloads.

• Hybrid cloud Extension – Provides guidance regarding the
  ‘what, when and where’ of running workloads in private, public, or
  combined cloud infrastructures, maximizing ROI of in-house resources
  while optimizing performance of virtual workloads.

"To maintain the health of the infrastructure, it’s
imperative to understand the topological relationships and
dependencies that are required to effectively drive intelligent
decisions and actions within the IT environment spanning public and
private clouds," said Shmuel Kliger, founder and CTO,
VMTurbo. "VMTurbo’s foundational framework and policy engine
combined with component extensions address the IT stack above and
below the virtualization layer,driving resource allocation and
workload placement decisions that optimize efficiency and assure
performance of virtualized workloads."

Additional Enhancements

• Storage Tiering Support – The program discovers storage
  policies and limits recommendations accordingly. For example, if a VM
  uses storage that is within a storage cluster, all recommended
  actions are constrained by its cluster.

• HA Support – It recognizes and respects dedicated – and
  shared-failover vSphere HA configurations in the HA cluster. This
  makes the software more accurate in resource allocation and workload
  placement decision-making.

• Enhanced Multi-Tenancy – It offers flexibility for service
  providers to manage views and/or metrics within views that are shared
  with subscribers.

• Workload Health View – The workload view gives a perspective
  on the distribution of workloads throughout the virtual estate. It
  provides a view regarding how workloads are utilized, and how these
  VMs utilize their underlying host and storage resources.

• Dashboard Export to PDF – Reporting via the export of
  dashboard displays to portable PDF format.

It is available and
pricing starts at $699 per
physical CPU socket.The Storage Extension starts at $599
per CPU socket and is available. The Hybrid cloud Extension is
available to current customers in its early access program.