Virtualization tool specialist Vizioncore this week announced the latest version of its vOptimizer Pro suite. The update enables the suite to work with Linux-based and VMware Thin Provisioned virtual machines (VMs). Previously vOptimizer Pro could only be used to manage Windows-based VMs. In a long term lab evaluation of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), The Hypervisor [...]
New tool for Linux VMs
Comment 13th July
Automatically reclaim lost storage
Reviews 7th July
In June Virtualisation tools specialist Vizioncore released vOptimizer Pro 2.2. The suite works with VMware ESX Server and helps manage the size and contents of the virtual disk (VMDK) files used by virtual machines (VMs) running Windows. Administrators could use vOptimizer to ensure their VMDKs have just the right amount of free space. In many [...]
SAN suite boosts VMware storage
News 23rd February
SAN optimisation specialist Virtual Instruments today launched a new monitoring and optimisation suite for VMware SAN environments. Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom Portal Server collects and correlates traffic data from VMware VirtualCenter. The suite can also collect SNMP data from SAN switches and traffic data from Fibre Channel probes connected directly to SAN cabling. The VirtualWisdom suite [...]
vOptimizer Pro tunes up virtual storage
News 15th September
When you delete data from Windows, the data is not actually removed from the hard disk. While this doesn’t cause too many problems for physical hard disks, it means that the virtual disks used by most hypervisors end up being much larger than necessary. In turn this means VMs take longer to backup and may [...]