Release: VMTurbo Appliance update for August 2011

VMTurbo has announced the August 2011 update of its capacity management solution appliance, introducing support for the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. The appliance can either run on vSphere where it is provided in the OVF fomat or on top of Hyper-V provided in the VHD format.

VMTurbo is available in three editions, each edition containing more functionality:

  • Community Manager, which is free
  • Enterprise Operations Manager, which is priced at $25 per socket per month or $5 per VM per month.
  • Cloud Operations Manager, which is priced at $49 per socket per month or $9 per VM per month.

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New features in this release:

  • Microsoft Hyper-V support
  • Policy builder tab, containing QoS system parameters, remedial system actions, VM priority assignment and email notifications
  • Automated VM configuration based on performance recommendations
  • Overhead of swapping is now taken into account
  • Automated Storage vMotion
  • Gathering IOPS and Latency performance metrics on a VM basis for each datastore
  • Gathering of performance metrics between each host/datastore pairing
  • Progress bar of each resolution as its applied
  • New template capabilities