LAS VEGAS — As another VMware
show draws to a close, we suspicion I’d strew some light on a vendors in a cheap seats, a distant corner
of a expo many attendees substantially didn’t get a possibility to check out. There were a few companies
including HotLink, PerfCap, SolidFire and Real-Status that are value watching.
HotLink, only out of secrecy mode, promises to make churned practical environments easier to manage.
Its SuperVISOR product lets users conduct VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and Red Hat KVM hypervisors
through VMware vCenter. Its patent-pending
Transformation Engine abstracts a underlying hypervisors and workloads from a management
layer that treats churned practical environments as one and local objects inside a existing
VMware infrastructure. No additional government console required. Pretty cool, eh? That’s one way
to get around a vRAM taxation VMware combined with a poetic new chartering structure.
These days we’re flooded with giveaway monitoring tools, though they mostly means some-more headaches down
the highway when it’s time to scale. PerfCap, that Reuters used to guard 40,000 systems and Deutsche Bank used to
manage thousands of systems, has proven a chops on scale and features. It’s a ability management
tool (among other things) on steroids. Don’t be put off by a website; PerfCap is a tiny company,
but a product has outrageous potential.
The new stand of flash-based storage systems is small, quick and rarely scalable, and SolidFire’s
SF3010 Storage Node appears to be no exception. Its “Element” OS program includes thin
provisioning, deduplication and application facilities as good as a REST-based API (application
programming interface) to confederate with other government systems. All nodes are many-sided so
capacity and opening scale as any node is combined to a system. Storage clusters are built by
combining mixed SF3010 iSCSI nodes over a 10 GB Ethernet grid. And any node can replicate across
a cluster in a eventuality of Solid State Disk (SSD) failures.
SolidFire SF3010 beam to 100 nodes, 1 petabyte of capacity, and it can horde some-more than 100,000
tenant volumes within a singular cluster. If you’re a use provider or a vast association looking to
build an Infrastructure as a Service cloud, these boxes use a smaller volume of rack
space for a volume of IOPS and seem approach easier to conduct than normal craving storage
systems. The burnout rate with peep drives is still a slow question, though a failover
features in this product competence recompense for that. Flashy stuff!
Last, though not least, Real-Status’ HyperGlance apparatus was by distant a coolest thing we saw during VMworld. It
visualizes opening and confidence information on a 3D indication display a dependencies between your IT
apps and infrastructure. If we saw Paul Maritz’s opening keynote, it looks like a crazy Tron 3D
stylized video. It could be all yours, if we have a money fibbing around in your bill for a fancy
visualization tool.
Hmmm …. Maybe subsequent year?
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Jo Maitland is a Senior Executive
Editor of SearchCloudComputing.com. Contact her during jmaitland@techtarget.com.
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