Vizioncore Announces vConverter™

By VSM News Staff
published: Monday, February 11 2008

Buffalo Grove, IL, February 11, 2008 -- Vizioncore Inc., the market leader in management tools for virtual infrastructure environments, today announced vConverter, the fastest, easiest and most reliable tool for performing physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to virtual (V2V) machine conversions.  Customers working with VMware, Microsoft, XenServer or Virtual Iron environments can use vConverter to significantly simplify, automate and accelerate the machine to machine conversion process, maximize system availability and eliminate any potential impact on physical systems.

As customers increasingly look to standardize on virtual infrastructures, the reliability and performance of conversion tools are critical factors in ensuring that migration projects are as non-disruptive and require as few man-hours as possible. Server consolidation initiatives often allow only a few hours at weekends in order to perform conversions, so a fast, reliable tool that automates many of the manual pre- and post-migration tasks is critical to achieving maximum successful P2V conversions per time window.

Based on enterprise-class disk and networking technologies, vConverter allows system administrators to perform either single, multiple or scheduled ‘lights out’ machine conversions, providing an optimal way of designing and planning conversions to best fit infrastructure management needs. Significant R&D efforts have also resulted in the fine tuning of read/write/transfer algorithms and the creation of several new mechanisms to deliver impressive speed and reliability benefits. These efficiencies also allow customers to implement more rapid and effective P2V disaster recovery.

“The virtualization market continues to mature rapidly and customers face new and increasingly complex challenges in their virtualized environments.  Our commitment is to continue to deliver innovative tools that allow them to smoothly deploy and manage virtualization in order to quickly achieve maximum benefits and ROI,” said David Bieneman, CEO of Vizioncore. “vConverter adds needed functionality to our comprehensive set of management tools, creating a fast, safe and reliable way to build, manage and grow enterprise-class, highly available IT infrastructure, with minimal impact on virtual machine administrators.”

Key features of vConverter include:

• Lightning fast conversion speeds – patent-pending disk and networking features that deliver the fastest possible conversions
• Rapid setup – With no infrastructure software install requirement, vConverter can be installed and enabled in a couple of minutes
• Extensive automation - of pre- and post-migration tasks, including the ability to upload and run custom scripts onto the target VM at first boot
• Disk geometry & pre allocation algorithms to ensure maximum efficiencies when converting directly to VMware ESX Servers
• Ease of use – user friendly GUI for any level administrator or flexible CLI for advanced level administrators
• Batch & Schedule modes – for automated, remote conversions that can be scheduled for most convenient times
• Minimal infrastructure impact - never any reboots, no need to visit machines being converted, no software to install on the source and no downtime
• Broad enterprise platform and system compatibility – works with all of the industry’s leading virtualization platforms and operating systems including VMware, Microsoft, XenServer and Virtual Iron

Vizioncore vConverter is available immediately in two editions from Vizioncore’s worldwide channel partner network: Server Consolidation for one time machine conversions; and Disaster Recovery for multiple machine cloning. For more information, visit www.vizioncore.com/vconverter.html .