Virtugo Launches Virtualization Management Suite

Virtugo Software, a company providing software products to help manage solutions for virtualization platforms, announced the availability of virtualSuite r6, a management platform for virtualized server and desktop environments.

You might remember back in April of this year that uXcomm, a company known mostly as a systems management provider, purchased the assets of Virtugo Software, a small San Francisco company developing management tools for virtual environments. uXcomm then changed its name to Virtugo Software.

Chris Dickson, VP of marketing, Virtugo Software said “By bundling our products together, and extending support for other virtualization platforms like XenSource, we believe we have created a powerful, convenient and cost effective way for companies to manage virtualization within their data centers, while still optimizing resource use, and delivering higher savings for companies.”

Now, the company is announcing its latest suite of products called virtualSuite r6 which combines 5 modules to help better manage VMware and Xen environments. Datacenter managers can leverage the software to help monitor and control virtual machines and hosts, and can optimize performance to help meet service level agreements.

virtualSuite r6 includes:

• Virtugo Perform delivers a performance management tool specifically designed for IT organizations to discover and monitor virtualized environment vital statistics. Perform incorporates host server and virtual machine knowledge to show real-time variables such as CPU, memory and disk usage within a comprehensive user interface. Graphs and charts make the data easy to understand.
• Virtugo Optimize automatically tunes the virtual environment to enhance application performance. By dynamically adjusting CPU, memory and disk resource allocations in real-time, the virtual environment can handle more work while decreasing application response time. Optimize was designed to maximize utilization and increase productivity of existing systems, enabling companies to dynamically manage workloads and ensure business priorities are met.
• Virtugo Capacity allows IT administrators to monitor and document vital statistics about a company’s virtualized environment. It tracks a comprehensive set of host server and virtual machine metrics, stores them in a database and generates reports that identifies bottleneck and trends. These capabilities enable the IT administrator to plan the right amount of virtualization capacity to meet current and future demands of the organization.
• Virtugo Meter provides utilization measures for tracking resource use within physical and virtualized environments. This allows businesses to allocate costs, validate intended usage levels and perform accurate chargeback.
• Virtugo VDI is a comprehensive solution that manages, supports, and configures physical and virtual desktops in a single easy-to-use console, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership for virtualization desktop infrastructures. Administrators can now take a proactive, centralized approach to Virtual Desktop Infrastructures and deploy necessary software applications, patches and critical updates. virtualSuite VDI enables automated asset discovery, audits and reporting for hardware and software configurations in virtual and physical environments.

The product is available now and pricing starts at $349 per CPU socket. Enterprise licensing is also available.