Virtual Iron
Virtual Iron enables organizations to transform physical server, storage, and network resources into a centrally managed pool for creating and managing virtual infrastructure in the data center. The software provides advanced virtualization and management capabilities that take advantage of industry standards and open source economics and enable companies to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of enterprise service delivery.
Features
- » Leverage the open source Xen hypervisor to virtualize enterprise-class workloads.
- » Improve the utilization of current systems and get more out of today’s industry-standard hardware via partitioning and consolidation.
- » Quickly and cheaply 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 labor and errors via policy-based automation.
English
Supported Technologies
Linux,
Windows XP/2000/NT
Software, Open Source
Click on a technology to view similar products within this category.
Pricing
- Unspecified -
Additional Product Information
The Virtual Iron solution consists of three primary components:
The open source Xen™ hypervisor provides the foundation for Virtual Iron. It leverages the hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities built into Intel and AMD processors to create an abstraction layer between physical hardware and virtual resources. It supports 32 and 64-bit operating systems, up to 8 CPUs per guest operating system, up to 128 GB memory, and multiple storage and network adapters.
Virtual Iron Virtualization Services provide enterprise-class capabilities on top of the Xen hypervisor. They take full advantage of new hardware-assisted capabilities built into industry-standard processors and are deployed automatically on industry-standard servers without requiring software installation or management. The services include dynamic infrastructure management via hot-pluggable resources, server partitioning, and LiveMigrate™, a feature allowing virtual servers to move between physical servers without pausing operating systems or applications. In addition, Virtual Iron provides virtual storage and network connectivity, high-performance I/O for near native performance, multi-pathing, and resource monitoring for automatic recovery of virtual servers in event of failure. As a result, users get streamlined data center management and reduced operational costs.
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 operating system templates and cloning. These features streamline tasks that are normally highly manual and time-intensive and significantly reduce the complexity in the data center.