What a great title for a blog post, don’t you agree? To bad I didn’t came up with it myself, my friends at VMTurbo did. You’ve probably heard of them, they are the ones that enable virtualization teams to control complex environments and at the same time enhance the performance of VMware, Hyper-V, RHEV and Citrix orientated architectures and deployments. The reason for this blog is twofold, first of all I would like to spend a few minutes briefly introducing VMTurbo, and secondly, as some of you might already know, they love to give a way free stuff, and I’m not talking about a baseball cap or a T-shirt, read on …
Free tickets to VMworld Europe!
That’s right! Not to long from now they will again (re) launch their VMTurbo VMworld Europe (13 – 16 October 2014) Sweepstakes, just as they did for the U.S. edition a few months ago, which was a huge succes by the way. Interested? All you have to do is register below and return for winner listings every Friday on August 22, 29, & September 5, it’s that easy! Every Friday they will give away 2 full conference passes, no questions asked, awesome right? So, you want to go to Barcelona? Sign up now!
Indeed, that’s amazing, but who are they and what do they do?
As stated on their website, VMTurbo controles cloud and virtual environments to assure workload performance while maximizing infrastructure efficiency. Its patented approach automates resource allocation decisions to dynamically adjust your environment to meet application-specific SLAs and business goals, keeping it in a state of perpetual health. VMTurbo offers a new approach, in fact, 89% of IT organizations see VMTurbo as highly differentiated. Have a look here, they will tell you exactly how and why they are different from all other monitoring tools like, Veeam, Solarwinds, vFoglight etc. In addition, no, it’s not the same as DRS or sDRS, in fact, it’s completely different. See the same page mentioned above.
VMTurbo takes the data from your environment and lets your workloads and other infrastructure entities figure it out for themselves. It uses efficient market principles to control (not monitor) your datacenter, keeping it healthy and efficient, both now and as you expand.
Use cases and beyond
I won’t go into any technical details for now, I’ll safe that for some future posts, but to get you started here are some common use cases in which VMTurbo will most certainly make a difference. Each link will open in a seperate window.
- Virtualize Business Critical Applications Virtualize the “last mile” of your critical apps.
- Optimize Workload Placement What workload should go where and when?
- Reclaim Resources and Rightsize You don’t need all those resources, prove it with VMTurbo.
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Plan, deploy and scale out your VDI project with confidence.
- Hyper-V, Multi-Hypervisor Management and Migration Control them all!
- Over Provisioning Workload Resource Allocations Don’t ‘just’ overprovision for peaks.
- Capacity Planning Prepare for growth, apps, data center consolidations, server upgrades, DR etc.
- Cloud Control Whether you’re an enterprise or service provider offering cloud services to your customers, reduce ongoing infrastructure and support costs and differentiate your services with VMTurbo.
90% of VMTurbo customers see a return on their investment within 90 days. Yup, you read that right, 90 days! And if you turn on automation, VMTurbo will help you banish alerts without a single click.
What else?
VMTurbo comes in a few flavours. It all start with Operations Manager, it’s VMTurbo’s core product. It connects with vCenter, SCOM, VCD, or directly with hypervisors, and provides actions for compute, storage, and network/converged fabric resources. On top of that they offer several plug-in ‘Modules’ which extend VMTurbo’s Operations Manager functionality, providing several intelligent control and visibility features. You might want to check out their products page, you’ll find it here.
VMTurbo is a virtual appliance that installs in 15 minutes, maps your environment to provide actionable recommendations in an hour, and will measurably improve it the first day. Guaranteed. No, really – GUARANTEED.
But wait, that’s not all. Sure, eventually you’ll have to pay to use VMTurbo to get all guns blazing, no surprises there, but they also offer the VMTurbo Virtual Health Monitor, it’s completely free of charge, installs easy and you won’t need to purchase or install Operations Manager either. Check out my download section (it’s near the top, you can’t miss it) and give it a try, or simply click the VMTurbo banner add in my sponsor section on the right side of the screen. You will take a different route, but you’ll end up downloading the Virtual Health Monitor in the end. It has already been download over 13000 times! You will also find the Operations Manager 30 day free trial edition in there as well if you’re interested!
We believe you need to control an environment instead of ‘just’ monitor it, that’s why we give away our monitor product for free ! Makes sence if you ask me.
And before I foget, this is there main website
Disclaimer
That’s the beauty of writing for, and hosting, my own website, in the end I get to decide what goes up there. Each and every one of my sponsors offer top notch products, each in their own field of expertise but with clear and useful overlaps for sure. They help me in keeping basvankaam.com running and teach me about interesting new and ground breaking technologies at the same time, a very powerful and useful combination for sure, one of which I’m very grateful for!
To finalize
In one, or perhaps multiple, of my future posts, might take me a couple of weeks though, I’ll focus a bit more on the technology and specific features involved. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to fully test and explore all of its features and options, and when I do I won’t hesitate to share my thoughts with you guys.
