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Rich Miller (CEO of Replicate) posted about our search for some larger ESX shops.  If you’ve got >40 ESX servers in one virtual center instance, and are interested in a 1 year free subscription to RDA, please get in touch!

We’ve been encouraged by the response to the announcement of RDA 1.0.  The number of visits, registrations and people downloading the free evaluation version of the product has been terrific.  

But we’re not yet satisfied: We are particularly interested in finding organizations with sizable VI3 virtualized datacenters who would like to evaluate the datacenter analyzer.  The majority of our users have indicated that the number of ESX hosts under management by Virtual Center (or should I say vCenter ?) is 20 or less.  We’d like to find the installations with 40 or more ESX hosts under management.  

To that end, we’re extending to three organizations with more than 40 ESX hosts in their datacenter, the opportunity to become a Replicate Technologies design partner.  In exchange for providing us with modest amount of feedback on your experience, design partners will receive one year’s free subscription for the full compliment of servers in the datacenter.  If you’re interested, give us a call or use the sales inquiry submission form here.

It’s a sign of just how great and busy we’ve been that it took me 4 days to post this!

As of Monday, November 11th, Replicate’s first product – Replicate Datacenter Analyzer – is officially launched.  

What is RDA? From our website:

Over 60% of downtime, security, and performance issues are due to configuration errors, and virtualization is only going to drive that percentage up. To ensure proper virtual datacenter operation, it is critical to have a holistically configured datacenter based on industry best practices.

Combining empirical data from our IP network probes with configuration information obtained from other individual datacenter elements, RDA constructs a unified view of how the entire datacenter works across different administrative domains. Ensuring that administrators can quickly see the relevant information, RDA “knowledge packs” apply industry defined best-practices to highlight latent problems and overt mis-configuration in a virtualized datacenter that can impact security, reliability, or even downtime.

Go check it out!  We’ve got a free trial, screencasts, and all sorts of other goodies on our website.