In the beginning of September, Tek-Tools Software announced a pre-release version of VProfiler, a virtualization
management solution for early stage virtualized environments. Since then we have been getting questions about
the difference between vProfiler and our Flagship product Profiler for VMware.

Let's compare these two products.

vProfiler

vProfiler is an extremely simple, easy-to-use, and powerful analysis, reporting,and monitoring tool, best suited for up to three ESX hosts.
vProfiler is designed so that small VMware environment administrators can deploy and start using it in minutes
to immediately understand how their resources are being utilized.

"With increasing frequency over the past several months, we have been encountering customers with a need for
management and visibility of a relatively small virtualized environment, but they don't need nor do they
have the budget for larger management frameworks." says Ken Barth, president and CEO, Tek-Tools.

Created with the most common tasks a VMware administrator faces in mind, vProfiler answers common questions such as:

1. How many more VMs can I add to this host?
2. Which resource will I run out of first?
3. Which VMs are consuming the majority of my resources (CPU, storage, memory)?

vProfiler provides reporting,monitoring, capacity analysis and performance analysis for day-to-day
use without having to worry about software clients, firewalls, or application speed.

To see a competitive matrix, please visit http://www.tek-tools.com/blog/index.php/vprofiler.

vProfiler is available for a free trial for up to seven months (registered renewal required after 30 days).
Upon completion of the free trial period, users can purchase the software for a one time fee of $195 for up to three ESX hosts.

vProfiler can be downloaded from the Tek-Tools website, http://www.tek-tools.com/blog/index.php/vprofiler

Profiler for VMware

Profiler for VMware is an enterprise virtualization management solution now in use by some of the world's largest virtualized enterprises.
It's one of a kind solution for large enterprises, especially when combined with Storage Profiler and the other IT resource management
modules in our Profiler Suite.

Profiler for VMware provides agent-less, cross-domain visibility, management, and intelligence from applications through servers, network, and storage.

Main features include:

1. Auto-discovery
2. Capacity planning
3. Performance monitoring on ESX hosts & VM guests
4. VMDK file utilization
5. Storage utilization trending & forecasting at the VMDK level
6. Storage mapping to SAN devices (Fiber Channel switches, arrays)
7. Real-time & historical analysis
8. Alerting

Profiler for VMware comes with a free 30 day trial. To download a free white-paper about Profiler for VMware please visit, http://www.tek-tools.com/blog/index.php/virtual/.