Virtugo Software pumps up virtual management suite

Virtugo Software this week announced it had upgraded its flagship software suite with capabilities to better plan for necessary virtual capacity, manage virtual desktops and track resource use within physical and virtual environments.

Virtugo's VirtualSuite 6 comprises applications to monitor host and virtual servers in real time as well as optimize the performance of applications running on the servers in the virtual environment. The company added three applications to its suite to offer five products total: Virtugo Capacity, Virtugo Meter and Virtugo VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) this week join Virtugo Perform and Virtugo Optimize.

Company executives say added intelligence to the software suite to offer customers more information around data collected by the software. VirtualSuite 6 software installs on a dedicated machine and depends upon agents distributed to managed servers to collect performance and availability information.

Virtugo Capacity uses data collected from host and virtual machines to generate reports on bottlenecks and trends. The reports, Virtugo says, can be used to model potential server environments and better plan for capacity to support applications.

Virtugo Meter taps the information gathered by Virtugo agents to provide utilization information to IT managers looking to chargeback departments for resource use. The metering application, Virtugo says, can help companies get an idea of how their users are work with the virtual environment, how often and for what applications.

"Capacity helps customers get the most and best out of the resources they have and enables them to think outside of the one box to a cluster or more," says Chris Dickson, vice president of marketing at Virtugo. "And the metering application offers valuable information on how people are using those resources."