Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, today announced the availability of a free trial version of Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server (ECS) for VMware vSphere 4 customers.

In this offering, ECS lets customers compose, orchestrate and deploy application infrastructure to virtualization environments managed with VMware vSphere 4. ECS already supports private clouds based on VMware VCenter or Citrix XEN, as well as the Amazon public cloud. Systems created for one virtualization environment are portable to another. The trial version only supports vSphere 4 environments – no other cloud platforms are supported in the trial version.

“Following on the successful release of the free Amazon EC2 version of Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server it made sense to provide an ECS offering for private data center customers. By packaging it as a VMDK we make it very simple for vSphere 4 customers to launch and run the Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server to manage application infrastructure in their virtualized environment,” said Peter Chiu, Director of Product Management, Elastra.

Customers interested in using the Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server for vSphere 4 can visit Elastra’s website and complete a short sign-up form to gain access to download location and instructions on using the product. To sign up to get access to the downloadable version customers can visit: http://promos.elastra.com/elastra-enterprise-cloud-server/