Virtualization Strategies for the CIOVKernel now offers a free tool that promises to analyze VMware virtual infrastructure capacity. Capacity View plugs into VMware ESX and vCenter or VKernel's own VM Stats and Optimization Pack, and identifies capacity-based performance issues, such as virtual machine I/O latency or underallocated CPU, memory or storage, the company said. It also monitors available capacity for new VM deployments and identifies overprovisioned VMs that can be right-sized to free wasted capacity.
Capacity View compiles stats on the number of VMs, hosts, data stores, clusters and resource pools; total available physical resources (CPU, memory and storage); and total allocated virtual resources. Capacity View can be downloaded from the VKernel website with no registration required.
Discover virtual assets from the cloudShavlik Technologies LLC unveiled a Software as a Service-based IT management service tool for small and medium-sized businesses that performs asset discovery of physical and virtual resources from the cloud. From the IT.Shavlik.com
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site, IT managers can perform asset inventory of physical and virtual machines, including VMware hypervisors, assess missing patches, and receive reports on Windows 7 readiness. Shavlik claims the service provides the same level of functionality as its on-premise solution, with no agent installation required. Interested users can sign up for a beta on the IT.Shavlik.com web site.
Manage Xen and KVM with ConVirt 2.0Organizations exploring Xen and Kernel-based Virtual Machine virtualization have a new management platform at their disposal: ConVirt 2.0 Open Source.
Developed by Convirture, ConVirt 2.0 provides capabilities such as monitoring, configuration management, template-based provisioning and live migration. It is licensed under the General Public License and is free to download and use.
A planned enterprise version of ConVirt will build on the open source features with high availability, backup and restore, dynamic resource allocation, and role-based access control. Convirture's website features more information on ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise.
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