The Customer has already had a desktop hypervisor solution (VMware Workstation). This valuable tool enabled users to backup, share and optimize the performance of their virtual systems; it allowed to decrease the size of a virtual machine by 40-50% and enhance its performance by removing temporary or unused system files and optimizing the disk image structure.
The idea was to support VMware ESX Server platform and enable optimization of the guest low-level disk data structures (partitions resizing). This would provide system administrators with opportunity to dynamically change the footprint size of each VM.
Besides, as the hardware for ESX servers is rather expensive, the solution allowed reducing operating costs by empowering users to reclaim necessary space from already allocated VMs.
- Feasibility and compliance. The project achieved all goals requested by the Customer.
- Mature and pro-active management processes allowed us to complete the project in time and on budget. To deliver the project faster we accelerated our development processes and adjusted them to the Customer’s needs.
- Proven solutions. To decrease development costs we turned to technically proven solutions using whenever possible the already existing stable components, rather than custom development.
- Scalable architecture. The component-based product architecture is highly scalable and open for future enhancements.
- Unit-testing. The core system components had a set of built-in tests run automatically each time the software was developed for enhanced product reliability.
- Usability focus. Clear and convenient interface ensures user operations are performed easily and quickly.
