VMTurbo for MSPs and Cloud Providers

Differentiate Your Services Offering with VMTurbo

As an MSP, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, or Cloud Service Provider, you're constantly looking at ways to differentiate your offering, and drive down your operational and capital costs.  By incorporating VMTurbo into your IT stack, you can significantly enhance and differentiate your offering:

• Real Time Monitoring & Historical Reporting
• Enhanced Problem/Incident Management Through Bottleneck Detection & Automated Resolution
• Proactive QoS Management Through Automated Optimization
• "What If" Planning To Accommodate Change & Meet Future Demands

With VMTurbo, you can:

• Demonstrate your organization's ability to manage SLAs and maximize virtualization and cloud ROI;
• Differentiate from competing offerings based on "VMware Management Stack" and traditional management paradigms; and
• Enable the use of alternative hypervisors.

Management Challenges for MSPs, IaaS and Cloud Providers

VMTurbo helps cloud providers resolve three central challenges:

1. How to accomplish superior TCO by harnessing the economies of scale advantage of the cloud;
2. How to manage and retain this TCO advantage through rapid dynamics of multi-tenant workload changes and the variety of constraints on its processing (e.g., security, privacy);
3. How to provide users with tools to manage their cloud applications and resources.

TCO advantages are highly dependent on optimizing the dynamic workload distribution across the server and storage infrastructure. If workloads are constrained to designated subsets of the servers, these subsets function as smaller clouds and lose the economies of scale advantages in reducing TCO. Therefore, a central challenge of cloud providers is how to distribute workloads across their entire clouds to optimize their TCO advantage.

This challenge of optimizing TCO is rendered particularly difficult by two factors:

1. Clouds must manage high rate of workload change events (e.g., arrivals, termination).  Workload and capacity management mechanisms must thus (a) be fully automated (vs. manual, as in private clouds); (b) handle cloud-wide allocation of capacity to workloads (vs. cluster-based allocation in private clouds); and (c) optimize the workload distribution to create TCO advantage.
2. Clouds face more stringent constraints on workload processing (e.g., security and privacy), due to more complex service requirements and multi-tenancy operations.

VMTurbo offer cloud providers unique solutions to resolve these TCO optimization challenges.  Our Cloud Optimizer assures that TCO is best minimized, by automating workload distribution to optimize cloud-wide capacity utilization and to reflect constraints.  Our Cloud Planner empowers cloud providers to systemically evaluate and plan for growth and changes of cloud infrastructures. And our Cloud Reporter tools enable cloud providers to provide their users with detailed reports to track analyze and trend resource usage by their applications.

With VMTurbo, a Service Provider can...

1. CREATE ECONOMIES OF SCALE IN MANAGING CLOUDS

VMTurbo enables MSPs/CSPs to consolidate the monitoring of all managed clouds from a single console, creating significant economies of scale and TCO efficiencies.

2. ELIMINATE PROBLEMS PROACTIVELY

VMTurbo can automatically detect, troubleshoot and isolate problems as soon as they emerge, then analyze and recommend their best fixes. Service providers can use the Optimizer recommendations to eliminate the problems proactively, before they escalate to impair applications.  This enables providers to assure end users that their clouds are healthy and their applications are highly available.

VMTurbo empowers service providers to help its end users with systemic capacity planning of their IT growth and changes. For example, the provider can help its end users consider a broad range of “what if” scenarios and compute the best use of resources and distribution of workloads to address these scenarios.  Providers can use the Cloud Planner to provide invaluable help to its users in evaluating the ROI of contemplated changes.  Once users are satisfied that their goals and constraints are satisfied, and their ROI is optimized, the Planner produces a list of actions to implement the plan.

4. OPTIMIZE USE OF CLOUD RESOURCES TO DELIVER SLA & MINIMIZE TCO

The Cloud Optimizer empowers the provider to optimize the use of cloud resources to handle applications workloads and assure their performance.  The statistics of applications workloads can vary significantly between different applications and different times. The Optimizer manages the distribution of workloads to best optimize applications performance. For example, it assures that two applications experiencing concurrent traffic peaks are allocated to different hosts to avoid congestion. Similarly, if a host is significantly underutilized, it will shift its workloads away and turn it into standby mode to reduce energy consumption.  With energy costs representing an estimated 20% of cloud OPEX, this can translate to significant TCO savings.

Finally, the Reporter permits the CSP to enable its users track, analyze and trend their cloud performance. Reports can be flexibly customized to meet specific needs and concerns of each user and help their decisions best.

THE BOTTOM LINE

VMTurbo helps service providers develop sustainable edge in growing their cloud services. This unique edge is driven by several factors:

1. Supporting integrated management services beyond the scope available to end users through the hypervisor vendors' tools;
2. Exploiting the economies of scale, beyond those available to end-users, created through consolidation of cloud management functions;
3. Exploiting the automation provided by VMTurbo tools to reduce labor costs and increase the availability and efficiency of clouds, while optimizing applications performance;
4. Integration of private and public cloud services through jointly developed extensions of VMTurbo Integrated Management Suite.