Cirba
Inc., the leading provider of software-defined infrastructure
control solutions, today announced support for KVM-based environments
running OpenStack’s cloud management platform. Cirba’s
predictive analytics densify and reduce risk in KVM environments by
safely optimizing VM hosting, placement and sizing decisions. KVM is the
most recent addition to the list of hypervisors supported by Cirba,
which includes VMware ESX, IBM
PowerVM, Microsoft Hyper-V and Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
Cirba’s award-winning Control Console provides unprecedented visibility
into opportunities to increase efficiency and reduce capacity-related
performance risks in KVM infrastructure. Using Cirba will eliminate the
need for organizations to manually determine where workloads should be
placed and enable them to make more efficient use of hardware and
software resources. Cirba has been shown to increase VM density by an
average of 48% in VMware-based infrastructure. In addition, Cirba’s
Reservation Console provides integration to OpenStack to automate the
entire process of selecting the optimal hosting environment (including
Region and Availability Zone) for new workloads and reserve compute and
storage capacity. The Reservation Console automates “fit for purpose”
placements of new workloads across multi-hypervisor, multi-SLA,
multi-site virtual and cloud environments.
“Many organizations are looking to adopt more than one hypervisor.
Having the ability to model all workload demand in one system is
critical to understanding how much infrastructure is required, how it
should be configured and where new workloads should be placed to take
maximum advantage of available resources. Only Cirba enables
organizations to balance infrastructure supply and application demand
for greater efficiency and control in single hypervisor,
multi-hypervisor, software-defined and hybrid cloud environments,” said
Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-Founder of Cirba.
“Cisco is a big supporter of OpenStack and KVM as an alternative to more
traditional choices. The richness of management solutions around
OpenStack and KVM is of utmost importance to organizations that are
considering this alternative. Cirba’s capabilities bring very
sophisticated analytics and integrations that in many ways leapfrog the
capabilities found in some of the more established offerings.
Advancements like this make it even more likely that companies will
deploy KVM in volume,” said Michael O’Gorman, Distinguished Engineer in
the Chief Technology & Architecture Office & CTO of the Cloud &
Virtualization Group at Cisco®.
“Adding Cirba’s predictive analytics to KVM-based infrastructure
provides unprecedented policy-based control that enables organizations
to take the platform beyond just Dev/Test and into production-level
environments,” said Hillier.
To learn more, watch a short demonstration of Cirba for KVM on OpenStack
at: http://www.cirba.com/solutions/Cirba-for-Openstack.htm.
Cirba will be demonstrating its software-defined infrastructure control
solution at the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada May 18-22, 2015.
Cirba will ship support for KVM environments running OpenStack in June
2015.