Vizioncore Expands Product Line Beyond VMware

Vizioncore has been around since 2002 as a consulting company in the virtualization field working with products from VMware and Citrix. However, the company is probably best known for its VMware backup solution – esxRanger.

Vizioncore has moved beyond backups, and has created quite a number of add-on applications to help make its customers’ VMware experience a much easier time.

To help the company grow, it was quietly acquired by Quest Software sometime this year and Vizioncore has since been operating as a separate subsidiary. Also this year, Quest Software again quietly purchased another virtualization application player, this time, virtual machine optimizer Invirtus.

In July, Quest Software’s acquisitions formed a strategic partnership allowing Vizioncore to OEM all Invirtus technology and the company fostered collaboration between the two companies on future initiatives.

“As the virtualization market has grown and matured, we have seen increased demand from customers running a variety of different virtualization technologies,” said David Bieneman, founder and CEO of Vizioncore.

Bieneman said that while his company will continue to have a very close working relationship with VMware as a Technology Alliance Partner, his company plans to focus on virtualization as a whole and not on one particular technology.

To reflect that broader vision, the company is incorporating the Invirtus technology into their offering as well as changing the name of their existing product line to better represent the fact that their solutions work across multiple virtualization platforms, rather than simply just on VMware’s ESX product.

To that end, the company announced the following product changes and updates:

• vRanger Pro (formerly esxRanger Professional) – provides image-level hot backups of either entire virtual machines or differentials – simply and easily while virtual machines continue running.

• vCharter (formerly esxCharter) – provides a top-down view of performance for the entire virtual infrastructure in a drill-down display that shows each level – beginning with the container and then through to the host level as well as all virtual machines.

• vReplicator (formerly esxReplicator)- supports replication of entire virtual machines including configuration settings, OS patches and the application itself as well as the data and all other OS-level changes.

• vMigrator (formerly esxMigrator) – migrates virtual machines to new platforms while keeping the source virtual machines intact and unmodified, allowing them to be used even as the virtual machines are ported to new production servers.

• vOptimizer (formerly Invirtus VM Optimizer) – reduces a virtual machine’s virtual hard drive to the smallest size possible and optimizes guest operating systems for maximum performance and portability.

• vConverter (formerly Invirtus Enterprise VM Converter) – significantly reduces the time and effort spent converting physical and virtual servers to VMware, Microsoft or Virtual Iron virtual machines.

• vPackager (formerly Invirtus Libra) – provides a virtualization collaboration solution via virtual appliances by extending and optimizing the use of VMware Snapshot and Microsoft Differencing Disk technologies.

• vEssentials (formerly esxEssentials) – a powerful bundle package consisting of vRanger, vReplicator and vCharter for organizations looking to enhance disaster recovery and simplify the overall management of virtual infrastructures.