VMware announcing New Product

On May 12, 2008, the company announced VMware Stage Manager, VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware IT Service Delivery Pack, and the Management and Automation bundle.

VMware Stage Manager is a breakthrough product for accelerating and automating the delivery of applications from staging to production.

VMware Site Recovery Manager, which is part of VMware’s suite of management and automation products for the datacenter, leverages virtualization to simplify business continuity planning and testing, and reduces the risk and complexity associated with executing disaster recovery.

The VMware IT Service Delivery Bundle includes all the products necessary to automate the entire lifecycle of IT services, from initial request to final retirement: VMware Lifecycle Manager and either VMware Lab Manager or VMware Stage Manager. These products use virtualization to provide a more cost effective and powerful way to manage the entire software lifecycle.

The VMware Management and Automation Bundle provides a single package for addressing both IT Service Delivery and Business Continuity. It includes VMware Lifecycle Manager, VMware Lab Manager, VMware Stage Manager, plus the disaster recovery product VMware Site Recovery Manager, a significant improvement over traditional tools for disaster recovery configuration, testing, and management. All products are available for purchase as of May 19, 2008.

New features in PowerConvert 7.0

Linux “anywhere to physical” (P2P, V2P) Functionality – PowerConvert provides powerful capabilities to migrate Linux workloads across physical or virtual boundaries for both 32-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES 8, 9 and 10) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 3, 4  and 5).

Windows 64-Bit Support – PowerConvert provides Windows 64-Bit P2V support for critical Windows 2003 workloads with support for various transfer methods including Take Control, Live File Transfer and Snapshot for VMware ESX 3.x, 3.5 and Citrix XEN Enterprise 4.1.

Citrix XenServer Support – PowerConvert now supports X2V and V2I migrations for Citrix XenServer Enterprise 4.1. This support includes 32-bit Windows XP, 2000, 2003 and 64-bit Windows 2003.

Incremental Imaging Capabilities* – Now customers will be able to enhance their backup and disaster recovery functionality by producing full, incremental or differential images. This represents tremendous savings in terms of staffing time, bandwidth and storage costs.

Enterprise-class Speed and Reliability – PowerConvert now provides significantly improved transfer speeds for a wide range of network types including Gigabit Ethernet networks to high-latency WAN environments – all with reliable enterprise-class workload migration functionality including Server Sync, automation and testing capabilities that minimize downtime and maximize the integrity of the workload migration.