Tek-Tools Delivers Profiler for VMware

Tek-Tools Software announced
general availability of Profiler for VMware, a new module in The
Profiler Suite, to optimize capacity utilization, performance, and
availability of virtual IT infrastructures. Profiler for VMware is a
completely agentless software solution that provides end-to-end
monitoring of VMware ESX hosts, virtual machines, and storage, and
delivers actionable insight through pre-packaged and customized
reports. With this addition to the Profiler Suite, end users can
monitor all four IT infrastructure components – servers, storage,
backup and apps – from one console including virtual servers.

Early release customers gain efficiencies
Early-release customers have been using the new module in production
environments, reclaiming terabytes of over-allocated virtual storage,
eliminating unused storage hardware, capturing ESX server performance
data, avoiding hundreds of thousands of dollars of unnecessary IT
purchases and deferring maintenance expense.
“Profiler for VMware showed us that we could take many of our physical
hosts and convert them to Virtual Machines, saving us space and cost in
our datacenters and helping us centralize over eight terabytes of
storage,” said Ed Delgado, Storage Administrator, Risk Metrics. “It is
a welcome addition to the Profiler Suite. Now I can look across the
entire IT infrastructure – physical and virtual — from a single
console. At a glance from the Profiler console I can see how servers
are performing, how much storage is available, the status of backup
operations and application availability. Plus, I can drill down in any
area for more in-depth reporting, the growth rate of allocated storage
or historical performance of ESX servers, for example.”

Virtualization delivers flexibility but complicates management
Server
virtualization delivers consolidation and flexibility, but complicates
performance and availability-management and masks infrastructure
sprawl. A recent survey conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group, “The
Impact of Server Virtualization on Storage” (December 2007), reveals
that more than half of the organizations polled experienced a net
growth of total storage volume since implementing server
virtualization.
“The key to effectively managing storage in a virtualized environment
is visibility. The ability to get a complete picture spanning from
virtual machines to the physical storage is necessary to make
intelligent business decisions,” stated Bob Laliberte, Enterprise
Strategy Group Analyst. “This insight also delivers the requisite
performance and planning information to ensure that the proper IT
infrastructure, virtual or physical, is in place to support
mission-critical applications.”

Profiler for VMware delivers visibility
Profiler for VMware provides visibility for:

• Capacity planning – Eliminating wasted storage, reclaiming orphaned
  storage, and developing strategic growth plans based upon historical
  utilization, trending, and forecasting for both allocated and utilized
  storage.
• Virtualization planning – Identifying candidates for virtualization.
• Performance monitoring – Utilizing real-time and historical
  analysis and what-if scenario planning to optimize performance in the
  virtual environment.
• Availability monitoring – Tracking inventory, status, and
  resource-utilization with threshold-based alerts across the virtual
  environment.

• "Organizations do not have the staff or financial resources to manage
  IT infrastructure with stove-piped management tools,” said Tek-Tools
  President and CEO Ken Barth. “And while virtualization enables data
  centers to be flexible and responsive, it also introduces a layer of
  management complexity. Bringing the entire IT infrastructure – both the
  physical and the virtual – into a single management console is
  imperative to drive cost efficiencies, optimize resources, and mitigate
  risk.”

Profiler for VMware is generally available directly and through Tek-Tools’ channel partners.
Pricing starts at $995 USD/ESX host regardless of the number of guests on the server.

Tek-Tools Software, Inc.