VMTurbo, the leading provider of
software-defined control for
cloud and virtualized environments, today announced a new Storage
Extension which enables customers to drive more comprehensive management
of virtualized workloads at the storage layer. The extension adds
greater visibility and control of relevant storage infrastructure
components, as well as the ability to govern and regulate storage
resources at a granular level.
“Understanding the interdependencies between virtualization and
storage layers is critical in maintaining workload performance and
driving utilization efficiencies in virtual data centers,” said Colm
Keegan, analyst at Storage Switzerland. “Organizations are now in search
of solutions that will overcome workload performance, efficiency and
risk issues caused by storage capacity and configuration issues, and
that is exactly what VMTurbo is able to offer with Operations Manager by driving control at the storage layer.”
The Storage Extension highlights new capabilities and features including:
- Greater control over storage resource allocation and configuration in support of virtualized workloads;
- A mapping of the relationship between virtualized workloads and associated storage components;
- Greater awareness of constraints, such as snapshot reservations,
RAID configurations, storage efficiency features like thin provisioning
and deduplication, controller load, storage IO capabilities, and other
storage characteristics.
“The complexity, performance and storage capacity challenges that
plague IT operations were top of mind when our team developed the
Storage Extension to Operations Manager,” said Yuri Rabover, co-founder
and vice president of product strategy at VMTurbo. “With the Storage
Extension, Operations Manager controls resource allocations and workload
placement to prevent performance degradation stemming from storage
congestion and inefficiencies.”
Server virtualization is imposing greater complexity in the storage
environment. As virtualization deployments flourish, storage
infrastructure supporting virtual workloads is becoming strained due to
greater demand. The overhead of understanding the physical and logical
relationships between virtualized workloads and the storage layer, and
whether or not assignments and utilization are resulting in bottlenecks,
is cumbersome and prone to misconfiguration.
VMTurbo Operations Manager automatically controls the environment in
the desired state in which application performance is assured while the
environment is utilized as efficiently as possible. The new storage
resource controller exposes storage resources at a more granular level
to Operations Manager, and enables control actions at the storage layer
to support workload Quality of Service.
View infographic on server virtualization’s impact on storage.