Ravello Systems Launches Direct Upload
Ravello Systems, Inc. today announced a new VM Direct Upload functionality which enables entire application environments to be cloned from VMware to AWS or Google Cloud, without requiring any virtual machine (VM) import or conversion.
Founded in 2011 by the team that created the KVM hypervisor, Ravello empowers enterprises to achieve the perfect balance of private and public cloud resources, by running their applications in any cloud on demand, without any migration overhead. Through a combination of application encapsulation, cloud abstraction and multiVM automation, Ravello has enabled enterprises to reduce their time to provision application environments from months to minutes and to eliminate their capacity constraints resulting in parallelized development, testing and training environments for accelerated time to market.
New Direct Upload from VMware vCenter
Traditional import/export utilities require a VM conversion from the native VMware ESXi format called vmdk to the Amazon EC2 format called AMI, since they run on entirely different infrastructures. In contrast, Ravello’s newly introduced Direct Upload system uploads multiple virtual machines by connecting directly to VMware vCenter, and runs the entire application in the public cloud without any modifications using high performance nested virtualization. This allows enterprisehardened virtual machines with all their operating system patch levels, VMware tools, drivers and complex networking configurations to be uploaded and run asis on AWS or Google Cloud, thus eliminating majority of the operations involved in an application migration to the cloud.
Application encapsulation and network automation
Rather than individual virtual machines, enterprises are concerned about multitier applications with complex networking and storage. Ravello provides advanced softwaredefined networking with full layer 2 access, and automatically recreates the application’s networking configurations including static IPs, multiple subnets, L2/L3 networking appliances, domain controllers, DNS and storage configurations in the public cloud. Ravello encapsulates the entire application environment, thus enabling several VM automation operations such as snapshotting, cloning and autoprovisioning to be performed on a multiVM capsule. As a result, enterprises gain singleclick repeatable deployments in AWS or Google Cloud for their multitier VMwarebased application environments.
