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True Server Virtualization and Management for Everyone |
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 Virtual Iron is a server virtualization & virtual infrastructure management solution. The product offers comparable capabilities and performance to established offerings and is easy to deploy, use and manage. By taking full advantage of industry standards and open source economics, Virtual Iron dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of virtualization and for the first time, makes production-ready capabilities available to the mainstream market. |
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| User Case Solutions |
| Virtual Iron provides true server virtualization including intelligent virtual machine mobility, high availability, rapid recovery and performance load balancing. The Virtual Iron Web-based console is easy to deploy, use and manage. Virtual Iron has enabled thousands of customers to achieve server consolidation, simplify server management, improve application development and test, business continuity, reduction in power, cooling and floor space, and easy virtual desktop infrastructure implementation. |
| Server Consolidation |
Virtual Iron streamlines and automates server consolidation and reduces complexity. One of the core value propositions of virtualization, learn more about Virtual Iron SME customers and their consolidation initiatives and implementations. |
| Server Management |
The other major core value of server virtualization is greatly simplifying the management of servers. Virtual Iron software enables IT to manage server environments easily through a comprehensive set of capabilities and tools. |
| Dev/Test Automation |
With Virtual Iron, IT organizations can create and manage virtual infrastructure for development and testing and then quickly provisioning new applications to reduce costs, increase productivity, and improve quality in development and testing environments. |
| Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery |
Your business relies on the availability of applications and data Virtual Iron's advanced policy-based intelligent solutions allow you to implement a cost effective high availability and disaster recovery solution that will keep you in business |
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A Comprehensive Virtualization Solution |
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Virtual Iron provides true server virtualization: |
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Operating system independent, supporting a wide range of industry standard platforms
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Mobility, allowing virtual machines to move between physical servers without any downtime
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Advanced features, such as built-in solutions for virtual machine high availability and capacity-based management
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Reporting and analysis, to allow you to know what is happening in your environment, when, and by whom
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For everyone: |
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Ecosystem friendly, Virtual Iron doesn't put proprietary technologies between you and the rest of your data center infrastructure. Existing solutions, such as storage, backups, and management, continue to work.
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Cost effective, at a fraction of the total cost of alternative solutions, and substantially more efficient than a traditional data center.
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Easy to acquire, through a large network of value added resellers.
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With Virtual Iron, users can: |
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Virtualize enterprise-class workloads running on unmodified Windows and Linux operating systems.
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Improve the utilization of current systems to reduce power, space and cooling issues through server consolidation.
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Quickly set up development, test and production environments. " Recover from failures quickly, reliably and cost-efficiently.
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Match resource capacity to workload demands automatically.
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Reduce human labor and errors via policy-based management.
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Extended Enterprise Edition |
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The Virtual Iron solution consists of three components: |
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VI - Center provides a central place to control and automate virtual resources. It streamlines tasks that are normally highly manual and time-intensive and significantly reduces data center costs and complexity.
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Virtual Iron Virtualization Services are deployed automatically on bare-metal, industry-standard servers without requiring software installation or management. These features streamline data center management and reduce operational costs.
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Open Source Virtualization, based on an open source hypervisor derived from the open source community project, is the first software loaded when the physical server boots. The hypervisor manages all hardware resources and leverages the hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities built into Intel and AMD processors to create an abstraction layer between physical hardware and virtual resources.
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Virtual Iron Extended Enterprise Edition provides the most advanced server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management capabilities available at a fraction of the cost. |
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Unlimited virtual Servers
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Virtual SMP
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Local, iSCSI, FC storage
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VLAN
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LiveMigration
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LiveMaintenance
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LiveRecovery
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LiveCapacity
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Novell SLES 10 kernel & drivers
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LiveConvert powered by PlateSpin-6 P2V, V2V conversion per socket
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Gold, Platinum support available
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LiveProvisioning |
A "zero touch" automated deployment capability that eliminates the need for physical installation or management of virtualization software on physical servers |
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Virtual Storage Management
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Create virtual storage on the fly from local, fibre channel or iSCSI storage servers |
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Virtual Network Management
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Create virtual switches that allow virtual machines to use standard networks or vLANs transparently |
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Virtual Machine Creation Wizard
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Use the virtual machine create wizard to simply create virtual infrastructure by cloning existing templates or creating new servers |
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LiveMigration |
Migrate workloads from one physical server to another, for example to provide additional capacity, without any application downtime. |
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LiveCapacity
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LiveCapacity optimizes virtual machine performance and data center utilization. It accomplishes this by rebalancing nodes by moving virtual machines when the node's CPU utilization is above a threshold. |
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LiveRecovery
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Automates virtual machine recovery from physical hardware failures without the cost and complexity of clustering software. Virtual machines can be automatically restarted on new hardware when physical hardware fails, reducing outage duration and operational costs |
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LiveMaintenance
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LiveMaintenance automates the process of taking a physical server out of service for maintenance, such as adding more physical memory, without impacting the virtual machines running on it. LiveMaintenance uses LiveMigrate to move virtual machines -- without stopping operating systems or applications -- to other nodes in the virtual data center. |
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LiveSnapshot
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LiveSnapshot creates space-efficient point in time images of running or stopped virtual machines. LiveSnapshot makes it easy to try patches and roll back to previous states, or backup a running virtual machine. |
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LivePower
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LivePower optimizes data center power consumption by monitoring resource utilization in the virtual data center. When there is excess CPU capacity, LivePower consolidates virtual machines onto fewer servers and shuts down physical servers that are not running virtual machines, based on pre-defined policies. When virtual machine load increases beyond pre-defined thresholds, LivePower turns on physical servers and LiveMigrates virtual machines to rebalance the virtual data center and ensure that resource requirements and service levels are met. LivePower FAQ. |
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LiveConvert |
An automated software solution powered by PlateSpin that enables customers to easily migrate 32-bit Windows workloads (data, applications, and operating systems) from physical, virtual and image-based infrastructures. LiveConvert provides Virtual Iron users with the ability to quickly migrate workloads between physical servers and virtual machines allowing users to quickly achieve the benefits of large-scale server consolidation. |
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Jobs and Reports
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View historical information on system performance or administrative actions in the data center. Useful for capacity planning, billing, and 404 auditing. |
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User based access control |
Perform user management locally or connect with Microsoft Active Directory or LDAP servers. Prevent unauthorized users from using the system. Monitor changes based on user actions for compliance purposes. |
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