Right-sizing Your Virtual Infrastructure On The Journey To IaaS

Grazed from VMTurbo. Author: PR Announcement.

One of the top priorities of one of our IaaS provider customers is the ability to right-size their subscribers’ virtual machines as part of the migration process from legacy VMware managed service platforms to its IaaS platform. In the legacy environments, the service provider currently has hundreds of bespoke configurations of virtual machines. In the IaaS environment, there are a total of 13 standard virtual configurations that are offered to subscribers.

As part of their initiative, the service provider wanted to determine how to transform subscribers’ legacy virtual machine configurations to the most appropriate configuration of the 13 standard options on offer for IaaS—based on the actual workload demand. Their subscribers commonly under- or over-provision virtual machine resource capacity because they have limited insight into the true workload demands of newly-deployed virtual machines. Through this capability the service provider believes it can help its subscribers maximize the ROI from the ongoing investment in their IaaS offering, while also reducing its internal costs through standardization of the service it provides to subscribers…

When the service provider evaluated VMTurbo they soon realized that our solution provided a unique capability to simplify the challenge they faced. VMTurbo provides the ability to define “templates” that reflect the standard virtual machine configurations offered as part of an IaaS service…

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