VMware and HP said Tuesday that VMware’s ultra-thin hypervisor software, VMware ESX 3i, is expected to be broadly integrated and available beginning March 31, 2008, on 10 models of HP ProLiant servers.
The joint offering helps customers adopt virtualization with greater speed and simplicity. Virtualization helps companies share and pool technology resources to better optimize their datacenters, resulting in greater flexibility to meet business demands and business pressures to reduced costs.
VMware ESX 3i for HP ProLiant features VMware virtualization capabilities with full support for HP System Insight Manager (SIM), the rich set of server management tools that come standard with HP ProLiant servers. This integrated offering enables customers to deploy VMware’s base hypervisor within minutes of booting up a ProLiant server, providing greater speed and simplicity for customers new to virtualization, as well as increased capacity expansion for customers who are already using VMware’s datacenter virtualization and management suite, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3).
“We are excited to work with HP to simplify datacenter management by pre-installing and pre-configuring VMware ESX 3i on HP ProLiant systems,” said Diane Greene, president and chief executive officer, VMware.
“Today’s announcement is a major step forward in accelerating the adoption of virtualization by combining our respective strengths: HP’s global footprint with the ProLiant platform and rich heritage in platform manageability, and VMware’s portfolio of products for datacenter virtualization, desktop virtualization, and management and automation solutions for both the datacenter and desktop.”
In addition, HP and VMware have worked together to make available software bundles that combine the VMware Infrastructure 3 software suite and additional automation products, with HP Insight Control Environment. These bundles offer customers a complete solution for seamless physical and virtual platform management.
“These unified offerings from HP and VMware help customers reduce costs and simplify the management and automation of virtual environments, leading to improved quality of the services that customers deploy,” Aman Dokania, Director and General Manager, Infrastructure Software, HP Asia Pacific and Japan.
“The combination of HP’s hardware and management tools with VMware’s industry-leading virtualization solutions delivers a truly differentiated experience. We are committed to supporting our customers’ needs for virtualized environments.”
HP and VMware plan to make VMware ESX 3i for HP ProLiant available worldwide March 31, 2008, directly to customers and for channel partners to pre-integrate single server virtualization onto 10 high-volume ProLiant server models.
Customers can also get CarePack support services, sold as options with the base-level offering, and as a standard component of VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise Edition. HP offers integrated support of both ProLiant servers and VMware products. |
