Cloud Scheduler
Planning and Scheduling Software for Virtual Infrastructure
Cloud Scheduler dramatically improves utilization of virtual infrastructure with intelligent time-based capacity management. By allowing users to proactively schedule virtual machines from a self-service portal,
Virtualization results in significant savings through consolidation of infrastructure, but also creates new problems with virtual machine (VM) sprawl and over-allocation of resources that often erode the efficacy of virtualized infrastructure. In addition, IT administrators have to perform several manual operations each time a VM is requested, adding to delays and administrative overhead.
Gale Cloud Scheduler addresses both these issues by automating administrative tasks associated with creating a VM, and proactively controlling VM sprawl by providing self-service scheduling and reservation of VMs for bounded periods of time. Cloud Scheduler automatically provisions and de-provisions virtual machines based on need, availability, and administrative policies, dramatically improving the utilization of the virtual infrastructure with intelligent and elegant capacity management. The self-service feature of Cloud Scheduler allows administrators of virtual infrastructure to automate repetitive manual steps to accelerate their responsiveness to VM requests from days to minutes.
Features of Cloud Scheduler:
- Real-time inventory buildup For VMware vCenter-recognized virtual resources
- Admin and user account management
- Workload creation with multiple VMs
- Virtual memory capacity management and optimization
- Outlook-like calendar view (day, week, month) for workload reservations
- Display of system and user generated messages
Benefits of Using Cloud Scheduler:
With Cloud Scheduler organizations are able to fully realize the value of VMware virtualization with these benefits:
- Improving Agility of VM delivery by automating manual tasks associated with provisioning a VM and offering a self-service catalog of VMs for users to reserve;
- Arresting VM Sprawl with need-based allocation of resources to VMs;
- Increasing infrastructure utilization intelligent allocation and de-allocation of virtual resources;
- Pro-actively managing capacity based on actual anticipated demand; and,
- Preventing performance issues caused by long running VMs by decommissioning virtual resources at the end of the reservation.
Because of Cloud Scheduler’s integration with VMware vSphere APIs, customers who have deployed VMware vSphere can seamlessly manage virtual inventory as well as import virtual machines with properties related to HA FT and DR that were created using the vSphere client. These imported VMs can be grouped into workloads and scheduled through the Cloud Scheduler. The Cloud Scheduler can scale to a large infrastructure managed by one or more VMware vCenter servers.
