Virtual Iron software enables organisations to transform their physical server, storage, and network resources into a centrally managed pool for creating and managing virtual infrastructure in the data centre.
Virtual Iron solutions dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of enterprise service delivery.
Virtual Iron enables users to:
• Improve the utilisation of current systems and get more out of today’s industry-standard hardware via partitioning and consolidation.
• Quickly and economically deploy software to set up development, test, and production environments.
• Match resource capacity to workload demands via workload management capabilities.
• Recover from failures quickly, reliably and cost-efficiently via high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Reduce human labour and errors via policy-based automation.
Virtual Iron Product & Solutions Overview
Virtual Iron Enterprise Edition enables server partitioning for multi-server configuration and advanced management capabilities for rapid provisioning, high availability (LiveMigrate™, LiveRecovery™), disaster recovery (LiveRecovery™), workload management and policy-based automation (LiveCapacity™).
The platform itself consists of three primary components:
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Virtualization Manager
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Virtualization Services
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Open Source Hypervisor
An open source hypervisor provides the foundation for Virtual Iron. It leverages
the hardware-assisted virtualisation capabilities built into the latest micro-processors
to create an abstraction layer between physical hardware and virtual resources. Virtual Iron supports 32-bit Windows and 32 and 64-bit Linux operating systems,
up to 8 CPUs per guest operating system, 32 CPUs per physical server, 96 GB memory, and multiple network and storage adaptors.
Virtual Iron Virtualization Services provide enterprise-class capabilities on top of
the open source hypervisor. These capabilities are deployed automatically on
industry-standard servers without requiring software installation.
Virtualization Services include dynamic infrastructure management, server partitioning and transparent LiveMigration™, allowing users to move virtual servers between physical servers without disrupting operating systems or applications. In addition, Virtual Iron provides virtual storage and network connectivity, high-performance I/O for near native performance and resource monitoring for automatic recovery of virtual servers in event of failure.
Virtual Iron Virtualization Manager includes a web-based user interface to create
and administer the virtual environment. It combines an easy to use GUI with a built-in
policy engine and event monitor to optimize application performance, ensure high
availability and simplify resource management. Virtualization Manager also enables rapid provisioning and reconfiguration through virtual server templates and cloning.
These features streamline tasks that are normally highly manual and time-intensive and significantly reduce the complexity in the data centre. |
