vOptimizer Pro on general release from Vizioncore

With the increase in virtualization implementation and the need to manage virtual environment there is a growing need to manage all those virtual machines. Vizioncore – a virualization server management software specialist has released vOptimizer Pro. A software that will enable IT departments to reclaim over-allocated and unused space in their virtual environment.

Designed specifically for Microsoft Windows and VMware ESX, vOptimizer Pro will automate the storage reclamation from your Windows guest machines, thus reducing storage cost and improve virtual machine performance. vOptimizer Pro was a finalist at last year’s VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas – in the “Best of VMworld Awards 2008”.

In deploying virtual machines technician tend to give more than required space to the virtual machine; “typically 50 to 80 percent of this space is unused”. vOptimizer Pro will find all these unused space and reclaim it by resizing the partition and streamlined at the same time. You can then use this free space for whatever you want. vOptimizer Pro provide freespace quota administration, so administrators can specify the amount of storage headroom required by different categories of virtual machines. These are rules that can automatically reduce and/or increase volume size.

“Virtualized storage can often be one of the most expensive components of a virtual infrastructure, but customers continue to rely on a lot of educated guess work to predict their storage requirements,” said Christopher Page, Director of Product Management at Vizioncore. “It can also be difficult and time consuming for customers to properly manage and maintain their storage deployments, leading to a significant cost for storage that can be reclaimed and reallocated with this solution. vOptimizer Pro allows IT administrators to automate ongoing housekeeping on their virtualized storage infrastructure, creating highly optimized virtual machines that have smaller footprints and deliver improved performance.”