Gale Technologies, a leading provider of infrastructure automation software solutions that
power IT as a Service for labs, enterprises, and service providers, today
announced Gale Scheduler for VMware Clouds. The Gale Scheduler for VMware Clouds
is a product built specifically for the purpose of maximizing the utilization of
a user’s virtualized infrastructure.
Virtualization results in
significant savings through consolidation of infrastructure, yet also creates
new problems with virtual machine (VM) sprawl and over-allocation of resources
that often erode the efficacy of virtualized infrastructure. Gale Scheduler for
VMware Clouds proactively controls VM sprawl by providing self-service
scheduling and reservation of VMs for defined periods of time. Gale Scheduler
automatically provisions and de-provisions virtual machines based on need,
availability, and administrative policies, dramatically improving the
utilization of the virtual infrastructure with intelligent and elegant capacity
management.
By proactively scheduling
resources for VMs in a time-based manner, users are able to fully realize the
value of VMware virtualization by:
·
Arresting VM Sprawl with need-based allocation of
resources to VMs;
·
Increasing infrastructure
utilization with intelligent allocation and de-allocation of
virtual resources;
·
Pro-actively managing
capacity based on
actual anticipated demand; and,
·
Preventing performance issues
caused by long running VMs by decommissioning virtual
resources at the end of the reservation.
Because of Gale Scheduler’s
integration with VMware vSphere APIs, customers who have deployed VMware vSphere
can seamlessly manage virtual inventory as well as import virtual machines with
properties related to HA FT and DR that were created using the vSphere client.
These imported VMs can be grouped into workloads and scheduled through the Gale
Scheduler. The Gale Scheduler can scale to a large infrastructure managed by one
or more VMware vCenter servers.
“With Gale Scheduler, we want
to enable businesses to create self-service infrastructures, while still
maintaining the controls that prevent waste and misuse of expensive resources",
said James Thomason, chief architect at Gale Technologies. "Gale Scheduler for
VMware Clouds is the only product on the market today that provides time-based
reservation, provisioning and capacity allocation for virtualized workloads,
proactively arresting VM sprawl and assuring maximized infrastructure
utilization.”
Gale Technologies will be
demonstrating Gale Scheduler for VMware Clouds at VMworld 2011, in Las Vegas from August 29 to
September 1, in booth 871. Attendees can sign up at VMworld for five user
licenses free for one year.
Product Availability and
Pricing
Gale Scheduler for VMware
Clouds will be generally available on November 15, 2011. Pricing starts at
$100/user/year. For more information, contact Gale Technologies at info@galetechnologies.com or 408-213-4900.