HOTLINK PLATFORM
The HotLink SuperVISOR™ platform revolutionizes system management of heterogeneous virtual computing with an open, enterprise-class integration and transformation platform spanning all major hypervisors. Unlike overlay solutions that provide basic cross-platform automation on top of dual native management toolsets, the pioneering HotLink transformation technology abstracts the underlying hypervisors and workloads from the management layer to enable mixed virtual environments to be treated as unified and native objects inside your existing management infrastructure. In addition, the HotLink platform provides an open architecture for policy-based automation across all your virtual infrastructures and automated conversion of your workloads. You can now apply the most cost effective mix of hypervisors without sacrificing the ability to interoperate and seamlessly manage across your environment.
Unified Platform
HotLink SuperVISOR is an enterprise-class, fully automated platform for deployments spanning all major virtual infrastructures — VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (KVM). HotLink’s virtual object bus, transformation engine, proxy and integration services allow you to holistically manage a mixed environment as easily as a single hypervisor.
Plug-in Architecture
HotLink SuperVISOR was specifically designed with a plug-in architecture to extend leading virtualization management solutions like VMware vCenter. Only with HotLink can you leverage your current virtualization management investment to support other virtual infrastructures natively — no additional management console is required.
Hypervisor Transformation
Only with the HotLink Transformation Engine™ can virtual infrastructure metadata be abstracted and decoupled from the virtualization management layer to enable native interoperability of hypervisors. The cross-platform transformation technology breaks down the barriers to interoperability so you can choose the optimal virtual infrastructure for each application and use case.
Workload Conversion
With HotLink SuperVISOR, workloads are seamlessly converted for migration across your heterogeneous environment. Workload transformation technology allows you to move virtual machines between hosts regardless of the target hypervisor — necessary metadata and data stores are automatically converted across native image formats.
Open Extensibility
The HotLink platform is built with an open architecture for integration with enterprise system management and in-house workflows. A standard native API enables policies and automation to be applied uniformly across your entire virtual infrastructure.
- Mix & match hypervisors
- Utilize existing management toolsets
- Eliminate lock-in
- Standardize policies & automation
- Leverage existing skills
- Reduce infrastructure costs
You can now avoid spiraling costs, vendor lock-in, suboptimal virtual computing environments and management complexity. Instead, you can lay the foundation for optimized, scalable, cost-effective virtual computing with HotLink.
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| Example Solutions | VMware vCenter & Citrix XenCenter | Microsoft, Veeam, Abiquo, BMC, CA | HotLink SuperVISOR |
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