Announcing the Hyperic VMware Appliance

…and it’s ready for download.

We’ve always been great at giving our customers the ability to manage their VMware servers and guest VM’s, but now we’ve taken the extra step of creating a ready-to-run VMware appliance.

Basic platform: Debian 4.0
HQ version: 3.0.5-417 OS

Basic install:

• Have VMware player installed (or server)

• Start the appliance and login either as root or hyperic, with the password “hqadmin”. After logging in, you should see a message displaying your local Web URL for HQ, plus the username and password. (note: there’s a small chance that you might see an incorrect URL. If it contains “127.0.0.1″ you’ll have to replace that with the machine’s real address.)

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News Roundup - Series B Funding and a New Release

With our recent news of series B funding and a new HQ release just yesterday, we have once again become the subject of a few news articles. Here are a few of them that we discovered this morning:

• Conversation with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic – Dan Kuznetzky’s blog post for ZDNet’s Virtually Speaking on virtualization and Hyperic in general. At IDC, Dan was one of the first analysts to predict the Linux bull run. He now focuses on virtualization, and we’re thrilled to discuss our virtualization strategy with him.

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Dan Kusnetzky on Hyperic and Virtualization

Dan Kusnetzky, the “Virtual Man” and former analyst with IDC, has written a great article, based on a conversation with Javier, that’s all about our approach to managing virtualization. A few highlights:

The two major pillars upon which [Hyperic] built their plans were to avoid dependencies on any specific hardware architecture or operating system. This is the reason that the Hyperic management solution is built of independent modules that work together using a well established communications architecture.

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