Vizioncore
has released a tool that can optimise the size of virtual machines, enabling
businesses to reclaim significant amounts of storage space, the company claimed.
Available immediately,
vOptimizer
Pro is designed to work with Windows virtual machines running within VMware
infrastructure, and can perform a fully automated partition adjustment of any
ESX-based virtual machine.
Vizioncore said that up to 80 per cent of a typical virtual machine's storage
footprint might be unused space allocated during provisioning.
"Virtualised storage can be one of the most expensive components of a virtual
infrastructure, but customers continue to rely on a lot of educated guesswork to
predict their storage requirements," said Vizioncore director of product
management Christopher Page.
VOptimizer Pro automates the complex task of resizing Virtual Machine Disk
Format virtual machine disk images up or down, depending on the needs of the
virtual machine. It achieves this by mounting an offline virtual machine,
inspecting its file system and operating system, and then resizing the NTFS
partition as necessary.
Scheduled runs of the tool can thus prevent virtual machines from running out
of disk space as well as recovering over-allocated storage, the company said.
Vizioncore vOptimizer Pro is now available from the company's channel partner
network and costs $299 (£201) per processor socket.
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