Our goal is to provide management and automation across heterogenous platforms -- so you can move a workload (server, with associated network and storage connectivity) seamlessly between different physical and virtual machines.

Note: we consider the full hypervisor (ESX, or other hypervisors) an operating system -- and treat it as one. So you can take a set of physical machines running windows and linux, transform those machines into ESX servers (now running the servers in virtual machines), then transform them into different hypervisors -- or go back to bare metal physical -- with correct network and storage connection adjustments -- all in the time it takes to reboot the physical machines.

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Our relationship with VMware obviously respects their leadership in the virtualization market. As can be see from the VMware PDFs associated with / posted with this expert session, VMware sees value in our ability to make physical machines into ESX machines (with connectivity) and swap ESX between clusters.

We are also members of the Community Source program, and have contributed source code -- so you could say a little bit of Scalent ships in every ESX 3.x and higher