1. The ONLY Real-time Management Solution for the Virtualized Data Center
The marketplace is awash with vendors offering solutions to monitor and report on performance of your virtual infrastructure. Many of these applications can collect and report on a broad set of performance metrics. VMTurbo is the only REAL TIME OPERATIONAL solution that collects a broad range of performance metrics, continuously analyzes them, identifies anomalies and performance bottlenecks, recommends resolutions and automates their execution - all using our Economic Scheduling Engine.
VMTurbo is the only solution in the market today which incorporates the capabilities of traditional performance management solutions with unique analytics to drive a broad set of Workload Management Actions to guarantee your virtual infrastructure operates within pre-defined performance constraints to guarantee service levels and maximize the ROI of server, storage and data center facilities. VMTurbo is the only solution that enables the IT agility required to address the continuously fluctuating demands of today's data centers.
2. "Tie the Viewing with the Doing": Turn Insights into Actions
Collecting and reporting on performance metrics is easy, which is one reason the marketplace is saturated with vendors that makes their living by charging money for it. We at VMTurbo believe that this functionality should be free -- indeed our FREE monitoring solution is available for UNLIMITED use. (Download it now!)
The real value is in the next step of optimization -- providing you with the specific workload management and infrastructure optimization actions that must be taken in order to prevent performance bottlenecks, maximize utilization, and minimize operating and capital costs.
The VMTurbo suite uses our Economic Scheduling Engine to automate key virtualization management operational procedures including complex workload balancing, real time & continuous rightsizing, and virtual infrastructure performance & capacity management. Through powerful data correlation capabilities VMTurbo provides immediate line of site to problems, in real time, which would otherwise be difficult to identify. Only VMTurbo:
- Pinpoints the problems;
- Identifies its impact;
- Recommends the corrective actions;
- And can execute them to ensure your virtualized environment is running optimally.
With VMTurbo, you can find and fix problems today; automate to prevent problems; and plan for the future and report on how you performed. VMTurbo is the ONLY solution that "ties the viewing with the doing."
3. A Holistic Approach for the IT Stack
VMTurbo is the only solution taking a holistic approach across the IT stack -- analyzing a broad range of performance metrics, with a rich set of actions to keep your environment healthy and efficient. VMTurbo monitors the entire IT stack, including virtual machines, physical machines, storage infrastructure, etc.; and detects problems and bottlenecks such as CPU and Memory congestions, co-scheduling congestion, IO and network bottlenecks, over- and under-utilization, and others. To keep the environment in the best possible shape, VMTurbo considers both real-time data, historical trends and transient spikes. This provides the basis for a rich set of corrective and preventive actions across the entire infrastructure in real time, including:
- Virtual Machine:
- Move between hosts
- Move between datastores
- Start
- Stop
- Suspend
- Change # of CPU
- Change configured vMEM
- Change thin provisioned storage
- Provision required network
- Provision required data store
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- Physical Machine:
- Start
- Stop
- Suspend
- Provision
- Decommission
- Datastore:
- Provision
- Decommission
- Reconfigure HBA: throttle I/O bandwidth
- Etc.
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4. Assures Application Performance at Lowest Infrastructure Cost
With VMTurbo, you can find and fix problems today; automate to prevent problems; and plan for the future and report on how you performed. The suite delivers:
- Reduced operating expenses: Lower OPEX through automation of management functions, more efficient use of physical resources and related operational expenses.
- Reduced capital expenditures: Lower CAPEX through more efficient use of server and storage assets. Maintain agility in provisioning by minimizing the lead time to meet business demands for new IT resources.
There are four primary sources of savings:
- Server & Storage cost reduction due to improved resource utilization
- Software license cost reduction due to elimination of physical & virtual infrastructure sprawl
- Infrastructure cost savings due to lower electricity, A/C, floor space, and rack space costs
- Lower support/personnel costs through automation of tasks associated with incident/problem management, capacity planning, optimization and stakeholder reporting
There are two principal savings scenarios:
- First, savings associated with consolidation of today’s environment, achieved through an improved workload balancing, server decommissioning, and storage recovery; and
- Cost avoidance in a growth scenario, due to the improved cost curve.
5. Proactive vs. Reactive
VMTurbo’s Virtualization Management Suite not only resolves problems, but also works to proactively keep the data center in a healthy state. It is a proactive system that keeps the managed environment healthy by continuously adjusting and tuning the managed entities, keeping the performance of all the entities at a similar levels. Unlike a threshold-based system that reacts to abnormalities when performance violates thresholds, VMTurbo maintains your data center in a much more stable and predictable state.
6. An Integrated Suite for a Consistent, Systemic Workflow
The VMTurbo suite is built on a common architecture and semantic data model that enable seamless integration of tools, data, analytics and UI. In contrast to fragmented point solutions or shallow integrations, VMTurbo provides an integrated multifunctional management suite. The suite integrates monitoring, analysis and control functions across the entire range of elements and resources of a data center, rather than partition them into fragmented tools. The deep integration means that the workflow for the users of the system is significantly simplified, and the burden of building and maintaining a complex integration is eliminated.
Furthermore, integration means that management tools and functions assure consistent actions. For example, actions recommended by a problem resolution tool do not compromise the performance improvements executed by the optimizer. Similarly, a recommendation to shift workloads to an available host by a performance optimizer does not compromise energy minimization provided by a capacity management tool.
The VMTurbo suite supports a systemic life-cycle management process (as compared with a fragmented, ad-hoc management approach). Systemic management means that VMTurbo helps administrators and IT leadership organize their workflow into a cycle of activities, greatly simplified by VMTurbo tools:
- Monitor system behaviors
- Analyze behaviors to resolve and eliminate problems
- Plan changes and growth
- Optimize utilization and performance
7. Peace of Mind
VMTurbo ensures quality of service for mission-critical applications through proper workload balancing, and eliminating and preventing problems. The result is peace of mind for stakeholders of the virtualized data center:
- Infrastructure Operations teams can rapidly resolve bottlenecks and performance problems;
- Infrastructure Engineering teams can more easily architect changes to virtual infrastructure;
- Capacity Planning teams can develop accurate investment plans and ensure that enough capacity is provisioned to meet business demands;
- Application Development teams reduce costs of delivering virtualized applications, with the peace of mind that service levels will be met post-virtualization.
8. Enterprise Class
The suite is architected as an enterprise class application, supporting disributed deployment, consolidating multiple data centers, clusters, applications, Virtual Centers and supporting cloud-scale environments. We’ll be with you as you scale your operation to 10,000 VMs and beyond (in contrast to other tools that become resource hogs and run out of steam).
9. Virtual Appliance for Rapid Deployment
The entire VMTurbo suite is packaged in a single virtual appliance, making it easy to deploy, configure and operate. The Virtualization Management Suite uses a common infrastructure and is packaged as a single SUSE Linux-based Virtual Appliance. The appliance is self-managing: it installs automatically and supports automated installation and in-place software upgrades. Installed in minutes, the appliance automatically discovers and then monitors and analyzes your virtual infrastructure. A single virtual appliance can manage multiple VCenter environments, scaling out for large environments.
10. A Team of Data Center Management Veterans
VMTurbo is built by a team with decades of experience building data center management software. The founding team built SMARTS, the leading provider of system and network root cause analysis solutions (acquired by EMC in 2004).