Who is Who in the Virtualization Management Ecosystem?  Hotlink – for shipping their revolutionary “Supervisor” that allows you to use VMware vCenter (and any other product that relies upon the vCenter API’s) to manage vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-v, Red Hat KVM, and Citrix XenServer.

Enterprises Embrace Heterogeneity:  New technological advances, as well as the increasing confidence enterprises have to deploy both Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V, will encourage more customers to adopt heterogeneous strategies for their virtual infrastructure.

Multi-hypervisor environments are a growing trend in enterprises and while some companies choose heterogeneity, others have it thrust upon them. Either way, IT shops juggling hypervisors need tools that support mixed environments.  One such shop is security software giant McAfee, which runs about 70% VMware vSphere, 25% Microsoft Hyper-V and 5% Citrix XenServer. VMware continues to hold out on multi-hypervisor support. But, Tonnesen said, VMware reps recommended using HotLink’s software to manage the mixed environment.

Heterogeneous hypervisor support and more comprehensive offerings will be mandatory as the virtualization management industry consolidates in 2012, according to IT pros and experts.  If VMware won’t add heterogeneity to its virtualization management software, there are already third parties willing to step in. One such vendor, HotLink, is “an absolute wild card,” and could make the virtualization management space “interesting along so many different dimensions.”

Jumping back to VMware, the second update concerning it this week comes from HotLink. The software maker made version 1.2 of its SuperVISOR software available. The solution enables companies to manage competing hypervisors from vCenter.

HotLink, provider of transformation solutions for heterogeneous virtualization management, announced Thursday new release of its HotLink SuperVISOR for VMware. Users benefit from an enhanced virtual integration platform that provides total control and performance visibility across enterprise hypervisors, using the VMware vCenter management console they already have.

HotLink announced version 1.2 of its SuperVISOR software, a solution that enables customers to use VMware vCenter in order to manage cross-platform virtualized environments.

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 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. 

Leading enterprises including McAfee and BMC Software adopt HotLink SuperVISOR to seamlessly manage mixed hypervisors inside VMware vCenter console