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Reptor™ Virtual Appliance

The Replify REPTOR Virtual Appliance offers the system administrator extensive visibility to the optimization benefits of the Reptor Accelerator, as well as an easy and incredibly powerful means of controlling the configuration of the Reptor Clients. Each appliance is responsible for keeping the connected clients up to date with the latest rule set. Changes to this rule set via the Reptor Appliance’s management interface will be broadcast to all connected Reptor Clients immediately.

If you have VMware installed in your data centre, you can install our Reptor Virtual Appliance literally without getting up from your desk. You download our appliance tarball to your VMware installation, power on the appliance, and configure it through a browser based interface.

We believe that virtualization is the future of computing and that it is just easier to install and manage virtual appliances as opposed to physical appliances.

You get other benefits with virtual appliances: it’s trivial to add more Reptor Virtual Appliances when you need extra capacity; you can try before you buy; if you no longer need that extra capacity, you just delete the Reptor Virtual Appliance instances; you get hot failover from one data center to another with VMware’s VMotion; you don’t have to keep hardware spares; and you don’t have to worry about hardware maintenance.

But we’re not dogmatic about it: we can ship you a Replify Reptor Physical Appliance if you want one, but we’re confident that once you have tried virtual appliances, you won’t want to go back to physical hardware.