VMware's vCenter CapacityIQ 1.0 is now available, making good on the company's promise to deliver the product during this calendar year. With CapacityIQ, administrators can view graphs that report on past, present and future capacity, helping administrators to reclaim wasted resources, resize virtual machines (VMs), and optimally position VMs within a cluster, the company said.
But there's a catch: CapacityIQ 1.0 is available only for VMware ESX 3.x and vCenter 2.5 environments and not the latest vSphere 4, which has been available since May.
Andi Mann, a senior analyst at the research firm Enterprise Management Associates, said via email that a 3.x-only offering is not ideal, but it's not surprising either." As a version 1.0 release, "it has been in [development] for a long time," hesaid. "Given that long dev cycle, developing for the then-current, stable, and widely deployed ESX 3.x version is pretty understandable. Trying to develop for vSphere 4 [before it was released] would have been difficult and risk breakage from late changes."
Support for the vSphere 4 platform will be delivered by the end of the year, a spokesperson said. CapacityIQ starts at $995 per managed processor, plus support and subscription.
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Fortisphere offers virtual workload management
Fortisphere's new Virtual Service Manager (VSM), a workload and resource management tool, is now available. VSM allows IT managers to manage their environment according to business priorities. Administrators can identify configuration errors, set alerts on resource levels, inventory and categorize virtual machines, and perform capacity planning. Delivered as a virtual appliance, a fully functional 14-day trial of the software is available from Fortisphere's website.
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