Name: Eco4Cloud Workload Consolidation
Rating: 9.1 (1 reviews)
Author: Eco4Cloud

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Innovation Management

PHP Frameworks

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Text Editors

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Enhanced 911 (E911)

Meeting Management

PDF Editors

Payment Facilitation

Supply Chain Management

Visitor Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Blockchain Payments

Crypto Asset Management

Hedge Fund

Investor Relations

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Archiving

Cloud Storage

Composable Infrastructure

Custom Software Development Services

Data Masking

Database Performance Monitoring

Email Encryption

Endpoint Security

Firewall

Fraud Detection

IT Asset Disposal

Infrastructure Capacity Planning

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Internet Security

Log Management

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

NoSQL Databases

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Storage Management

Value-Added Resellers (VARs)

Wireless LAN

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Channel Management

Content Management

Creative Collaboration

Domain Registration Services

Email Marketing

Marketing Automation

Native Advertising

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Translation

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Proposal

Sales

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management

File Integrity Monitoring

Security

3D Modeling

Membership Management

Real Estate

Simulation

Vertical-Specific

Find top rated software and services based on in-depth reviews from verified users. 400+ software categories including PaaS, NoSQL, BI, HR, and more.

Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat

VMware vSphere

VMware by Broadcom

VMware ESXi

Hyper-V

Microsoft

Veeam ONE

Veeam Software

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

SolarWinds

vRealize Operations (discontinued)

Discontinued Products

LogicMonitor

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

Dell Technologies

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

VMware vSOM (discontinued)

IBM Turbonomic

VMware vCenter

Cisco UCS Manager

Red Hat Virtualization (formerly Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, broadly known as RHEV) is an enterprise level server and desktop virtualization solution. Red Hat Virtualization also contains the functionality of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktop in later editions of the platform.

Standard

Premium

Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, or XenDesktop) is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)  and application virtualization solution from Citrix.

Virtual Apps

Citrix DaaS

Eco4Cloud Workload Consolidation

Virtualization Management Tools help IT managers optimize the performance of physical servers and instances in a virtual environment.

Virtualization Management

Likelihood to Recommend

Eco4Cloud has developed software solutions to maximize productivity of Enterprise IT.

Eco4Cloud helps IT Infrastructure to cut costs via optimal VMs placement in real time, which lowers physical server needs and saves money during HW refresh cycles.

Eco4Cloud also helps IT Operations Team to monitor and control virtualized environments and to automate workload placement in order to improve performance and meet SLA.

It builds upon a self‑adaptive, probabilistic algorithm developed with the Institute for High‑Performance Computing and Networking at Italy’s National Research Council (ICAR-CNR) and the University of Calabria. Eco4Cloud solutions have been validated by customers such as TIM, HP and INAIL, and its technology has been tested and certified by industry leaders such as VMware, Cisco Systems, HP and IBM.

Eco4Cloud

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)

VMware vSAN

IT Architect

Eco4Cloud Workload Consolidation 2016-02-09 05:46:37

TrustRadius is a technology and business research firm based in Austin, Texas. The company is known as a review platform for verified B2B technology and software reviews through a proprietary algorithm and human verification.

TrustRadius

Fast enough

Higher levels

Home

Virtualization Management Tools

Eco4Cloud is being used by our VMware Competence Center in all our VMware farms. The clusters in these farms are generally based on a number of servers that is usually higher than the number of hosts actually needed to run the hosted workloads. Eco4Cloud evaluates the total workload of each cluster and determines if there's a chance of emptying one or more hosts. It then instructs vCenter to vMotion the VMs on the least number of hosts and then tells vCenter to put the empty hosts in stand-by mode. When first installed, Eco4Cloud turned off as much as 20% of our hosts, obtaining an interesting reduction in power consumption. It also caused a delay in our hardware investments because we then directed our new workloads to the clusters that had more that one host in stand-by. When we finally needed to buy new servers and created new clusters, Eco4Cloud kept only two hosts running in each new cluster until we added workloads that caused a third host to start and so on with the following servers.

It consolidates workloads in VMware clusters using an algorithm that seems to work better than VMware DRS. It keeps headroom for workload peaks and to withstand the number of host failures set for the cluster in vCenter.
If the workload is very variable, Eco4Cloud will not continuously turn a host on and off but it will settle to keep the host running. It sort of "rightsizes" the cluster keeping only the right number of hosts running. This is another main difference when comparing Eco4Cloud with VMware DRS/DPM which strictly follows the workload and sometimes isn't fast enough in turning on the hosts when the workload is ramping-up.
To do a good job Eco4Cloud needs to analyze the hosts and the VMs. Therefore, the troubleshooting component of Eco4Cloud can figure out if there are problems in the configuration of the hosts (e.g. vMotion settings). It can also determine if a VM is stuck and can't vMotion (e.g. using the physical CD-ROM) or if it's oversized or undersized.
Something Eco4Cloud has and others don't is a technology named Smart Ballooning. With Smart Ballooning Eco4Cloud recovers unused RAM from the VMs and gives it back to the host way before the host goes over the 94% RAM threshold. This allows us to reach higher levels of overbooking.

It would be useful to have a version that works with OpenStack.
It should be made compatible with VMware VSAN.
It would be useful to have a version that works with hybrid clouds using the new "vMotion anywhere" or share nothing vMotion feature.

Eco4Cloud causes a reduction in power consumption both on old VMware clusters and especially on new ones.
It also causes a delay in CapEx investments because you buy more hosts only when really needed.

Eco4Cloud Workload Consolidation

Overview

What is Eco4Cloud Workload Consolidation?