HotLink Corporation, the market
leader in transformation solutions for heterogeneous virtualization
management, today announced the launch of its latest product, HotLink
Hybrid Express for VMware vCenter. The new technology dramatically
simplifies the management of hybrid clouds through a VMware vCenter
plug-in that natively supports Amazon EC2 and CloudStack resources —
full functionailty, with no other management console prerequisites.
HotLink Hybrid Express accelerates the process of deploying a combined
on and off-premise hybrid infrastructure from weeks to just a few hours,
utilizing customers’ existing VMware vCenter management infrastructure.
HotLink Hybrid Express is the only solution to natively
extend VMware vCenter to public clouds, so existing VMware users can
consolidate deployment, administration and management of all on and
off-premise resources with a single pane of glass — VMware vCenter.
HotLink’s unique transformation technology abstracts public cloud
platforms and workloads so VMware vCenter treats them just like vSphere
hosts and VMs — fully integrated and managed as a unified pool of
resources. Because HotLink natively integrates cloud resources, VMware
vCenter compatible orchestration tools, service catalogs and
self-service portals work seamlessly.
“The majority of enterprises today are using VMware vCenter to manage
their on-premise virtual infrastructure. Leveraging the existing
management infrastructure is a huge benefit when adding off-premise,
public cloud resources,” said Bernd Harzog, senior analyst at The
Virtualization Practice. “The simplicity of the HotLink Hybrid Express
approach significantly lowers the barriers for enterprises to
incorporate cloud-based services into their virtual resource pools.”
With HotLink Hybrid Express, public cloud workloads benefit from the
same VMware vCenter techniques as on-premise virtual machines. Users
clone, snapshot and migrate cloud instances just as they do today.
HotLink’s integrated, bi-directional workload conversion enables
seamless migration to and from Amazon EC2 and CloudStack.
Additionally, users can deploy cloud instances from existing VMware
vCenter templates and readily share templates with team members. With
the combination of VMware vCenter and HotLink, VMware users have the
familiar deployment and management interface of on-premise, with hybrid
cloud flexibility and agility.
Key features of the new HotLink Hybrid Express for VMware vCenter include the ability to:
- Manage public cloud resources natively inside vCenter — so users have single point management of all on-premise and off-premise resources.
- Migrate workloads with simple point and click — enabling users to deploy cloud instances just as easily as existing on-premise virtual machines.
- Create, use and manage hybrid snapshots — for the ability to create or revert to snapshots either on or off-premise.
- Integrate and automate workload conversion — enabling seamless migration of both Windows and Linux workloads to and from public clouds, without the need to utilize other tools.
- Utilize existing templates in hybrid environment — eliminating any need to build new templates for deploying workloads in Amazon EC2 or CloudStack.
- Standardize policies across on and off-premise — so enterprises can uniformly apply policies in a hybrid environment using existing VMware vCenter infrastructure.
- Apply automation across hybrid resources — allowing VMware vCenter to be the singular integration point for automation across all hybrid resources.
“Like most enterprises, Flextronics is looking for the best ways to
leverage cloud-based services to economically increase our
capabilities. However, the day-to-day complexity of managing multiple
infrastructure types has been a significant barrier,” said Dave Smoley,
CIO of Flextronics. “The ability to utilize our existing VMware vCenter
management solution to manage hybrid resources opens up a wide range of
public cloud use cases we didn’t think were possible.”
For customers with hybrid needs that also include on-premise
multi-hypervisor support, the combination of HotLink Hybrid Express and
HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware vCenter enables full-function, unified
management of all on and off-premise heterogeneous resources
— with VMware vCenter as the single point of management for Microsoft
Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat KVM, Amazon EC2 and CloudStack.
“While a growing number of companies recognize the benefits of
deploying a hybrid infrastructure, the implementation can be an
extremely time consuming and complex, with many layers of management
required for day-to-day operations,” said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO and founder
of HotLink. “With HotLink Hybrid Express, enterprises can now easily
incorporate hybrid resources into their existing on-premise
virtualization management environment for a robust and fully integrated
management solution out-of-the-box.”
HotLink will demonstrate the new HotLink Hybrid Express for VMware
vCenter in Booth 2422 at VMworld 2012 at Moscone Center, San Francisco
from August 26-30, 2012. Also, the company is conducting a series of Webinars on the new technology with registration available at http://hotlink.com/news/event.php.
Pricing and Availability
HotLink Hybrid Express for VMware vCenter pricing starts at US$7,500 and is now available. For more information, contact sales@hotlink.com.