Comments on: How has virtual server sprawl, from machines to change control issues, affected you? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-has-virtual-server-sprawl-from-machines-to-change-control-issues-affected-you/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:10:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Virtual101 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-has-virtual-server-sprawl-from-machines-to-change-control-issues-affected-you/#comment-64281 Virtual101 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:19:10 +0000 #comment-64281 a solution that can help with unauthorised VMs being run is VirtualIQ Pro which has the ability to provide naming policies, for example, if all the VMs are named *ctx.8h* for example, any VM being run that doesnt match the naming policy will not be able to run ..... also in terms of Virtual Server Sprawl, this is one way to prevent unauthorised machines but VIQ Pro also has a dashboard that enable you to see the most used and underused VMs or Hosts, meaning you have the ability to shut down VMs/Hosts thhat are using resource when they dont even need to be running which is obviously a drain in resources. VIQ is also Hypervisor agnostic meaning these features work for VMware, XenServer, Hyper-V etc so should work on whatever Hypervisor you are running. They even give away a FREE fully functional 5CPU license for you to try, once you try it, organisations can never live without it check them out and retrieve the free license at [A href="http://www.toutvirtual.com "] a solution that can help with unauthorised VMs being run is VirtualIQ Pro which has the ability to provide naming policies, for example, if all the VMs are named *ctx.8h* for example, any VM being run that doesnt match the naming policy will not be able to run ….. also in terms of Virtual Server Sprawl, this is one way to prevent unauthorised machines but VIQ Pro also has a dashboard that enable you to see the most used and underused VMs or Hosts, meaning you have the ability to shut down VMs/Hosts thhat are using resource when they dont even need to be running which is obviously a drain in resources. VIQ is also Hypervisor agnostic meaning these features work for VMware, XenServer, Hyper-V etc so should work on whatever Hypervisor you are running.

They even give away a FREE fully functional 5CPU license for you to try, once you try it, organisations can never live without it

check them out and retrieve the free license at

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