A virtualization solution from VM6 Software comes with features like rebuild functionality and improvements in the network components layer.
Virtualization company VM6 Software announced the release of Virtual Machine
ex (VM6 VMex) Version 2.0 for remote office and branch locations. VMex
leverages Microsoft Hyper-V to create an internal cloud to provision,
consolidate, manage and protect all of the ROBO
workloads. The company said the solution does not require any specialized skill
sets other than Microsoft Certified System Engineers.
New features in Virtual Machine ex 2.0 include monitoring and alert
capabilities that are fully integrated into the management console, so
administrators can use the predefined templates or build their own to capture
errors and write in log files, send e-mails or run a script; advanced security
settings systems for administrators to assign delegation to allow users to have
read, write or limited access to the various objects in the VMex cloud; and
improved performance for virtual shared storage rebuild.
"Enterprise organizations
that have realized the benefits of virtualization in the data center are struggling
with ways to extend those same benefits to remote locations and branch offices
as the costs are too high and the specialized skill sets required are
unavailable or cost-prohibitive." said VM6 founder and CEO
Claude Goudreault. "Enterprise
leaders now seek solutions that make it easier to manage, provision,
consolidate and protect the workloads across all of their locations. VM6 VMex
addresses the challenges of virtualization adoption in remote office locations,
providing an affordable and easy way to create a competitive advantage."
The VMex virtual SAN rebuild function
automatically rebuilds a virtual SAN in less
than 5 minutes without impacting the performance, the company said, even if the
RAID was unavailable or down for up to a week. The solution also boasts reduced
setup time with an improved install wizard accelerating the installation of
VMex on a two-node cluster, now taking less than 15 minutes.
VM6 has also improved the network components layer. Removal of the
dependency to PGM and the addition of VMex proprietary network drivers
eliminated the stress on the Windows kernel, adding to performance and
stability, the company claims. Rounding out the features is integrated quota
management and thin provisioning, where VMex administrators can provision more
storage than is physically available and set proper quota alerts to prevent
over allocation of physical resources.
Christian Boivin, R D director at JLR Real Estate Data Builders, said the
company has been using VM6 VMex 1.0 since it became available and is pleased to
see this latest version, specifically for its integrated monitoring and
alerting.
"As a search engine for real estate and property information, it's
critical that our IT infrastructure be robust and available at all times, while
being flexible as we're essentially transforming the mission of our servers
between day and night," he said. "When we looked at available
solutions in the market, they were all at least five times more expensive and
required a lot of independently developed solutions to work together, which
further added to the complexity."
Nathan Eddy is Associate Editor, Midmarket, at eWEEK.com. Before joining eWEEK.com, Nate was a writer with ChannelWeb and he served as an editor at FierceMarkets. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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