HotLink
Corporation, the market leader in transformation solutions for
heterogeneous virtualization management, today announced the newest
release of its flagship product, HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware. HotLink
SuperVISOR is the first and only solution to enable VMware vCenter users
to natively manage cross-platform virtual infrastructure spanning Citrix
XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (KVM). The
latest release, HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware 1.2, adds new capabilities
focused on enterprise robustness, scalability, configuration and
management of multi-hypervisors and workloads.
With its latest release, HotLink customers benefit from an enhanced
virtual integration platform that provides total control and performance
visibility across all enterprise hypervisors, using the VMware vCenter
management console they already have. The new features of HotLink
SuperVISOR for VMware 1.2 include:
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Enhanced Networking Configuration — Users can now
provision and modify virtual switches and network adapters from VMware
vCenter and associate these to any enterprise hypervisor — enabling
users to manage heterogeneous virtual networking from a single
interface.
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Expanded Performance Monitoring — The latest release
expands the heterogeneous performance statistics and alerts that are
gathered and displayed inside the native VMware vCenter performance
tab — allowing administrators to quickly identify issues across the
mixed hypervisor environment.
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Robust Configuration of Virtual Machine Settings — Only
HotLink provides the ability to modify the configuration of virtual
machine settings such as virtual CPUs and memory assignments natively
inside vCenter and apply across all virtual platforms — ensuring the
optimum VM configuration regardless of the hypervisor.
“Enterprise IT needs are rapidly evolving as an increasing number of
VMware shops are deploying heterogeneous hypervisor environments.
Administrators need a single management console that provides a
comprehensive view and complete control of all enterprise workloads,”
said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO and founder of HotLink. “The latest enhancements
to HotLink SuperVISOR extend the VMware vCenter management
infrastructure to provide sophisticated and robust management
capabilities to Hyper-V, XenServer and KVM — unifying the management of
all virtual workloads inside VMware vCenter.”
As virtual infrastructure deployments expand and mature, heterogeneity
is being fueled by a combination of economics and maturing of hypervisor
alternatives. The most recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for x86 Server
Virtualization Infrastructure report included, for the first time, both
Citrix and Microsoft alongside VMware in the leaders quadrant. Moreover,
Hyper-V grew 62 percent last year compared to ESX's 21 percent growth
and Citrix's 25 percent, according to IDC. While the proliferation of
multiple virtual platforms is accelerating, streamlined infrastructure
is needed to unify management. That’s exactly what the latest release of
HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware addresses.
“McAfee historically was an all VMware shop, but our business needs have
changed so that we now have a mix of vSphere, Hyper-V and XenServer.
Utilizing HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware across our virtual environment
enables us to increase our usage of other hypervisor platforms while
unifying management. By deploying multiple hypervisors and standardizing
on VMware vCenter as our primary management interface, we expect to
reduce our virtualization cost by over 50 percent and admin costs by 65
percent over the next 3 years,” said Mark Tonnesen, CIO of McAfee. “The
foundation of our multi-hypervisor environment is built on the HotLink
SuperVISOR platform.”
With the new HotLink SuperVISOR technology, enterprises can tier their
virtual infrastructure with cost-effective hypervisors and still unify
the management, significantly reducing their licensing and operating
costs. With HotLink SuperVISOR, customers can realize the benefits of
mixed hypervisors while avoiding overly complicated management systems.
“Like many other IT shops, we are investigating the use of multiple
hypervisors to cost effectively support development and test activities
for our Tier 2 and Tier 3 business applications. We have been very
impressed by HotLink’s SuperVISOR technology and the hypervisor
interoperability that it enables. We believe that HotLink will enable us
to optimize the use of specific hypervisors for individual workloads
without compromising our ability to manage our overall virtual
environment,” said Mark Settle, CIO of BMC Software.
Pricing and Availability
HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware 1.2 is available now with pricing starting
at $25,000. For more information, contact sales@hotlink.com
or visit www.hotlink.com.