Quest Software provides software that enables virtualization by enhancing the VMware® Infrastructure 3 capabilities. Quest Software products support essential IT strategies, including business continuity, P2V conversions, performance monitoring, VM replication, high availability and disaster recovery. Quest Software understands the unique characteristics and requirements of virtualization based on hands-on, front-line experience.
Solutions Provided by Quest Software Products

• Disaster Recovery – vRanger Pro™
  
• Performance Monitoring – vCharter Pro™
  
• Real-time Replication – vReplicator™
  
• Migration from ESX 2.5x to VI3 – vMigrator™
  
• P2V/V2V Conversion – vConverter™
  
• VM Optimization – vOptimizer™
  
• Virtualization Collaboration – vPackager™

Important Information for VARs

Complementary Products:

• VMware® ESX Server
  
• VMware® Consolidated Backup (VCB)
  
• File Level Backup Solutions

Vertical Markets:

• Automotive/Aviation
  
• Insurance
  
• Financial Services
  
• Technology
  
• Government/Public Sector
  
• Healthcare
  
• Engineering/Heavy Industry
  
• Retail
  
• Services
  
• Telecom
  
• Manufacturing
  
• High Tech

Product Fit: Quest Software is sold in conjunction with VMware as a high value complementary solution.

Deal Size: Quest Software is typically 30% of the VMware MSRP and varies based on overall deal size and specific products.

Deal Registration: This program is designed to reward and protect proactive resellers for opportunities they develop and introduce to Quest Software. For more information on deal registration click here .

Eval/Demo Program: Free trial available on web site. Partners have access to NFR licenses. Click here to download a demo.

Corporate Overview

Quest Software Inc. develops and delivers innovative solutions that enhance virtualization platforms. What sets Quest Software apart is our understanding of the unique characteristics and requirements of the virtualized environment. As a VMware Community Source member and Technology Alliance Partner, and as a highly active and recognizable member of the virtualization user community, Quest Software has an informed perspective on the industry which shapes the development of a suite of products that have not only become the industry standard but also are essential to supporting and optimizing the performance of virtualized environments.

Quest Software is a global company based in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, (a suburb of Chicago, IL) and markets its products through an extended channel distribution network of more than 25 distributors and 1,100 VARs worldwide. Quest Software is a fully owned subsidiary of Quest Software. Today, Quest Software supports over 7,000 end users and 65,000 licenses for its entire product suite.

vRanger Pro
vMigrator
vReplicator
vCharter
vConverter
vOptimizer
vPackager

vRanger Pro

Hot Image Backup and Restore for Both Virtual and Physical Machines

Today, thousands of virtual machines support critical business applications. These virtualized environments require solid backup and recovery strategies, or companies run the risk of weeks of downtime and lost revenues. However, most current backup processes are less than ideal. Powering down virtual machines for backups incurs downtime, while placing agents within each virtual machine for hot backups can become very expensive and hard to maintain. To save time, many companies rely solely on partial file-level backups. Until vRanger Pro, backup-and-recovery strategies for virtual machines were incomplete, hard to manage and costly.

Support Disaster Recovery and Reduce Downtime

vRanger Pro is the recognized industry-standard backup and restore solution for virtualized environments. Administrators can schedule regular image-level backups of virtual or physical machines—while the machine is still running. Images can be stored either locally in the SAN or sent as compressed files over a WAN to remote locations to support disaster recovery strategies. vRanger Pro also enables restore of individual files efficiently with an explorer tree through which users can easily identify and "grab" needed files. With an easy-to-use graphical interface, startup wizards, and VirtualCenter integration, vRanger Pro makes business continuity accessible to every level administrator. vRanger Pro also leverages the advanced technology of vConverter [10] to provide image-level backups of Windows-based physical servers without agents and without disrupting the source machine.

Features and Benefits:

• Performs entire image or partial differential backup
  
• Integrates with VCB to offload backups from the host
  
• Offers full VMware VirtualCenter integration
  
• Follows virtual machines when moved to new hosts
  
• Includes VSS driver to provide "transactionally consistent" backup images
  
• Compresses files so they can be sent over LANs/WANs to remote locations
  
• Contains P2V disaster recovery for image-level backups of physical machines
  
• Includes database repository to capture trending metrics
  
• Restores a virtual machine or files from within a virtual machine
  
• Offers improved compression for faster backups
  
• Provides startup wizard for even easier implementation

For more information about vRanger Pro, including data sheets, white papers, release notes, and a video tour, go to http://vizioncore.com/vRangerPro-documentation.html.

To download a trial of vRanger Pro, go to http://vizioncore.com/download.html.

To view screen captures of vRanger Pro, go to http://vizioncore.com/vRangerPro-demos.html.

vMigrator

Migration from VMware® ESX Server 2.5x to VMware Infrastructure 3
Migrating virtual machines from the ESX Server 2.5x platform to VI3 can be complicated, incur substantial downtime, and lower business productivity. vMigrator is designed to eliminate the challenges associated with porting VMs to a new platform.

vMigrator Keeps Your Business Operational During the Migration Process
vMigrator is a GUI-driven management tool that is easy to use with minimal training. During the migration process, the source virtual machines remain intact and unmodified. The existing production environment can still be used by the workforce, even as individual virtual machines are being replicated and ported to the new production server. Because the source retains its integrity until the cutover to the new server is completed, administrators can leverage this feature to support rollback contingency plans. The destination virtual machine is also migrated in a consistent state, keeping all data intact. This migration process allows downtime to be minimized—even for complex environments—to a simple required reboot at the end of the upgrade process, which can be as little as 60 seconds. A scheduling function allows administrators to control reboots in strict timetables to plan downtime. vMigrator will also automate the upgrade of VMware Tools and the management of the IP address.

Features and Benefits:

• Allows migration to VI3 with minimal downtime
  
• Includes migration of VMX hardware and VMware Tools
  
• Migrates multiple virtual machines simultaneously
  
• Provides scheduling options to control timing of reboots
  
• Allows source virtual machine to be used continuously during migration
  
• Maintains integrity of source and destination virtual machines
  
• Reduces migration downtime from hours to a 60-second reboot
  
• Offers easy-to-use Windows®-based GUI that any level IT administrator can use
  
• Includes proven, real-world Quest Software technology that eliminates scripting
  
• Requires no SAN
  
• Migrates to dissimilar hardware
  
• Allows for fail-back or roll-back to ESX Server 2.5x

For more information about vMigrator, including data sheets, white papers, release notes, and a video tour, go to http://vizioncore.com/vMigrator-documentation.html.

To download a trial of vMigrator, go to http://vizioncore.com/download.html.

To view screen captures of vMigrator, go to http://vizioncore.com/vMigrator-demos.html.

vReplicator

Host-level Replication and Fail-over Testing for Critical Virtual Machines
Hardware failure is a fact of life and often costs companies time and money. In the event of a failure, replication of entire LUNs creates many problems, such as heavy network traffic, additional hardware requirements and other costly maintenance items involved with hardware-level replication.

Selective Replication of Virtual Machines is the Answer
vReplicator is the leading replication solution for VMware Virtual Infrastructure. vReplicator is installed to a centralized server, and does not need to be installed on either the source or target virtual machines, eliminating licensing costs, management and maintenance involved with agent-based solutions. With vReplicator, the entire virtual machine is replicated, including configuration settings, patches to the OS, and the applications themselves, as well as the data and all other OS-level changes. Being able to replicate an entire virtual machine in real-time allows the applications to have the data and all the underlying OS configurations in the event of a failure. Selectively replicating virtual machines from a LUN reduces the cost of replication and opens the door to replicating Tier 2 and Tier 3 applications as well.

Features and Benefits:

• Replicates entire image of virtual machine, including OS, configuration settings and data volumes for VI3
  
• Enables ability to select individual critical virtual machines
  
• Reduces costs and maintenance of destination virtual machines with closed target VMs and supports replication to dissimilar hardware
  
• Resynchronizes automatically on fractured replication jobs
  
• Replicates over the LAN or WAN without dependency on the SAN
  
• Offers easy-to-use centralized Windows®-based GUI with VirtualCenter integration and Job Wizards for ease of use
  
• Works with VMotion and DRS
  
• Provides GUI-assisted fail-over testing
  
• Focuses on stability and scalability of replication job management

For more information about vReplicator, including data sheets, release notes, a user manual and a video tour, go to http://vizioncore.com/vReplicator-documentation.html.

To download a trial of vReplicator, go to http://vizioncore.com/download.html.

To view screen captures of vReplicator, go to http://vizioncore.com/vReplicator-demos.html.

vCharter

Real-time Monitoring, Alerting, Reporting and Chargeback Solution
vCharter is the only comprehensive monitoring tool for VMware ESX Server that goes "under the hood" to provide a real-time and historical monitoring and performance control solution for your virtual environments. By comparison, most monitoring solutions for virtualized environments don’t go far enough. They emulate the physical world in trying to collect metrics "inside the guest" operating system. vCharter is the only solution that pulls together all the features needed for true monitoring of virtual environments to enable informed decision making.

Get All the Information You Need with One Tool
vCharter provides a top-down view of the virtual infrastructure in a drill-down display of performance that shows each level of the environment, beginning with the container level. The container level presents a rolled-up layer of performance for the hosts within the container, while the host-level view follows the container level and demonstrates vital statistics for each of the virtual machine guests in a holistic view. Because vCharter runs centrally, it can provide a comprehensive view across the entire virtual infrastructure as a whole system to help identify bottlenecks and other problems. In addition to performance monitoring, vCharter offers the leading chargeback solution for the VMware ESX Server environment. vCharter can be configured with cost properties at the Global, Host, and VM level to accurately capture the costs for a given environment and apportion those costs to VMs based on utilization.

Features and Benefits:

• Provides both “real-time” and historical monitoring of hosts and virtual machines without agents
  
• Monitors and sets threshold alerts and actions
  
• Integrates chargeback engine with reporting for segmenting virtual machine cost structure
  
• Provides top-down multi-level view that easily allows administrators to identify bottlenecks or other problems
  
• Includes a database repository to capture trending metrics for fine-tuning performance
  
• Offers easy-to-use centralized Windows®-based GUI for any level IT administrator
  
• Allows drilling-down and viewing processes running in Windows virtual machines
  
• Supports data export and pre-defined intervals to exchange data with ERP systems

For more information about vCharter, including data sheets, release notes, a user manual and a video tour, go to http://vizioncore.com/vCharter-documentation.html.

To download a trial of vCharter, go to http://vizioncore.com/download.html.

To view screen captures of vCharter, go to http://vizioncore.com/vCharter-demos.html.

vConverter

Fastest, Easiest and Most Reliable P2V/V2V Converter on the Market
Many corporations are leveraging multiple virtualization platforms in development, test and production environments to support and enable more effective business. vConverter’s heterogeneous approach to P2V and V2V migrations provides increased flexibility and value that can be derived from virtualized environments.

vConverter for Maximum Efficiency and Minimum Disruption
vConverter significantly reduces the time and effort spent converting physical and virtual machines to VMware, Microsoft or Virtual Iron. This software enables fast and easy conversions without disrupting the source physical system during the conversion process. A significant R&D effort with focus on conversion efficiency has led to the creation of accelerated read, write and transfer algorithms and mechanisms specifically for use with ESX Server. vConverter licenses are available for one-time server conversions (Server Consolidation Edition) or for unlimited per server or workload use (Disaster Recovery Edition).

Features and Benefits:

• Superior disk and network I/O algorithms ensures the fastest possible conversions
  
• Block-level cloning of the hard disk keeps the entire file system intact, which minimizes risk of data loss
  
• Intuitive drag’n’drop interface allows selecting the source/target servers, entering the job configuration and launching the conversion
  
• Batch mode enables centralized and automated management of remote conversions of many physical servers of virtual machines simultaneously
  
• Scheduling agent enables selection of the most appropriate time to convert servers
  
• Multiple VM platform compatibility including VMware, Microsoft and Virtual Iron
  
• Extended source operating system compatibility including:
  
  • Windows® 2000 Professional
    
  • Windows® 2000 Server
    
  • Windows® 2003 Server
    
  • Microsoft® Small Business Server
    
  • Windows® XP Professional

For more information about vConverter, including data sheets, customer testimonials, a user manual and a video tour, go to http://vizioncore.com/vConverter-documentation.html.

To download a trial of vConverter, go to http://vizioncore.com/download.html.

To view screen captures of vConverter, go to http://vizioncore.com/vConverter-demos.html .

vOptimizer

Get the Best VM Performance with the Best Optimization Tool
Whether users are involved in testing, development, prototyping, disaster recovery, system deployment, training, IT production, demonstrations or labs, they understand that smaller and faster virtual machines save time and money, and make their jobs easier. Smaller, faster virtual disks mean better performance and more efficient use of physical hard drive space. This translates into less time spent copying, moving, backing up, deploying and archiving virtual machine image files.

Smaller, Faster Virtual Disks Save Time and Money
vOptimizer is an advanced optimization solution that quickly and easily reduces a VM’s virtual hard drive to the smallest size possible, while optimizing Windows guest operating systems for speed and performance. Based on extensive user feedback and tried and tested innovations over four generations, vOptimizer has taken huge leaps forward in terms of performance, user interface and feature set. vOptimizer offers many new functions for enterprise-level customers in the Network Edition, and also improves the interface and ease of operation for smaller desktop-oriented users in the Desktop edition.

Features and Benefits:

• Performs hundreds of optimization processes to reduce VMs to their smallest possible size
  
• Maintains integrity of installed applications when VMs are optimized
  
• Optimizes VM repositories located locally or across the network
  
• Runs outside the VM, so VM does not need to be running
  
• Offers multiple editions (Desktop/Network) for individual or data center usage
  
• Provides new management reports with related statistics, plus notifications for event activities
  
• Enables enterprise management for complete administration of VM communities (Desktop edition)

For more information about vOptimizer, including a brochure, user manual, and a video tour, go to http://vizioncore.com/vOptimizer-documentation.html.

To download a trial of vOptimizer, go to http://vizioncore.com/download.html.

To view screen captures of vOptimizer, go to http://vizioncore.com/vOptimizer-demos.html .

vPackager

Highly Efficient Virtualization Collaboration for VMware and Microsoft
Synchronizing changes to develop or test against common platforms is one of the major challenges in using VMs for development or testing. As virtual machines proliferate, the difficulty of maintaining synchronicity and distributing changes limits the productivity of a distributed workforce.

Distribute Compressed Packages for Synchronicity
vPackager enables highly efficient VM collaboration and sharing by eliminating the base OS requirement and compacting the Snapshot* or Differencing** files into optimized packages or virtual appliances that can be measured in megabytes, not gigabytes. With vPackager, customers can configure a Windows-based VM with the applications and configurations they wish to distribute, then extract these changes to a compressed package. This package can be distributed without OS licensing implications and applied to similar VMs to merge the changes. The downstream user or recipient requires only a similar base image (not a binary replica) to apply the incoming package/virtual appliance in order to obtain the desired environment.

* Snapshot: For VMware, a snapshot is a picture of your system at the time the snapshot is taken. Snapshot files contain only the changes that have occurred to the VM since the last snapshot was taken.

** Differencing Disk: For Microsoft, a differencing disk provides a way to allow multiple VMs to share a base configuration. Only the differences in each VM need to be saved, and those differences are saved in a local differencing file.

Features and Benefits:

• Introduces virtual appliances for Windows
  
• Decouples base image operating system from distribution package
  
• Removes additional Windows licensing requirements
  
• Uses advanced algorithms for differencing disk and snapshot file compaction and optimization
  
• Facilitates field distribution/support of VMs
  
• Assists with decentralized lab management
  
• Removes Differencing Disk and Snapshot inefficiencies
  
• Flexible licensing for Creator and Reader editions

For more information about vPackager, including a brochure, user manual, and support page, go to http://vizioncore.com/vPackager-documentation.html .

To download a trial of vPackager, go to http://vizioncore.com/download.html.

To view screen captures of vPackager, go to http://vizioncore.com/vPackager-demos.html .

Quest Software Partner Network Program

As a leader in virtualization, Quest Software provides a number of ways for you to expand your offerings, enhance the services and products you offer to clients and increase your profits. As a Quest Software Partner, you set yourself apart from others in the industry by including our best-in-class solutions within your offerings portfolio. As your revenues grow, partners can graduate to the next level and can earn even more rewards with Quest Software that can help you gain customer mind share, drive new revenues and take your business further.

For more information about the Quest Software Partner Program, please visit www.vizioncore.com/partner.html or contact your Alternative Technology representative today.