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Operations Manager 3.0 – Enabling Application Assurance across Any Virtual Infrastructure

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Today we are very excited to have announced the release  of the 3.0 version of our Operations Manager product line. The release is certainly a major undertaking by our development team – and delivers a host of important, new capabilities to our rapidly growing customer base.

This release delivers cloud-scale management for the largest service provider and enterprise virtual infrastructures, expanded heterogeneous hypervisor support, new application performance assurance capabilities, and enhanced capacity planning functionality. The product delivers this all from a single virtual appliance that installs in minutes and provides actionable, and automatable, recommendations to improve performance across the virtual environment immediately. Give it a look.

We will also be hosting a webinar next week on February 7th with Yuri Rabover, our VP of Product Strategy, that will run through a quick recap of the new functionality. Register here  to reserve your spot today.

Major new capabilities in VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 include:

1. Cloud-scale management through VMware vCloud Director integration.  vCloud Director enables the consolidation of virtual infrastructure across multiple clusters or virtual datacenters in a multi-tenant environment. VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 manages this entire environment through a single management plane that recognizes resource constraints within virtual datacenters, tunes and automates resource allocation to optimize utilization, and ensures application quality of service.
2. Single-instance, multi-hypervisor management by adding Citrix XenServer support and providing IT operators with the unique ability to manage across XenServer, vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V from a single virtual appliance.
3. Application-aware service assurance that now discovers and profiles Windows applications across the virtual environment providing visibility to application performance and enabling IT operators to prioritize resource requirements for mission-critical applications – ensuring quality of service as demand fluctuates.
4. Enhanced, intelligent capacity planning which utilizes the product’s deep understanding of workload performance characteristics and the physical environment to conduct performance-based capacity analysis. This provides IT operators with planning scenarios that are driven by future requirements and new hardware upgrades - validating expected performance over time while taking into account workload policies and resource requirements.

While releases are always important for growing software vendors like VMTurbo, this one does not fundamentally change to core value proposition of our award-winning product . Our solution enables IT managers to simplify the administration of complex virtual environments and drive better return on investment across their virtualization deployments. It deploys as an easy to install virtual appliance and delivers actionable, and automatable, recommendations to improve performance across the virtual infrastructure within minutes.

Key product benefits for Operations Manager remain:

• Service assurance across the virtual infrastructure with prioritized performance for mission critical application workloads.
• Operational efficiency through simplified, automated management that reduces manual intervention and prevents problems.
• Improved resource utilization making best use of physical network, server, and storage infrastructures to satisfy workload requirements – today and as the environment expands.
• Unified virtualization management via single-instance, multi-hypervisor management including support for VMware vCloud Director and vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and (now) Citrix XenServer.