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Virtual Iron - Enterprise-Class Virtualization and Management
Virtual Iron provides enterprise-class software for server virtualization & virtual infrastructure management for award winning HP ProLiant rack mount and blade servers. 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.
A Comprehensive Virtualization Solution
Virtual Iron enables server partitioning for single and multi-server configuration and advanced management capabilities for rapid provisioning, high availability (LiveMigrate™, LiveRecovery™), disaster recovery (LiveRecovery™), workload management and policy-based automation (LiveCapacity™). With these advanced capabilities, users can:
- Virtualize enterprise-class workloads running on unmodified Windows and Linux operating systems.
- Improve the utilization of current systems and reduce power, space and cooling issues through server consolidation.
- Quickly set up development, test and production environments.
- Recover from failures quickly, reliably and cost-efficiently.
- Match resource capacity to workload demands automatically.
- Reduce human labor and errors via policy-based automation.
The Virtual Iron platform consists of three components:
1. Virtual IronVirtualization Manager provides a central place to control and automate virtual resources. It streamlines tasks that are normally highly manual and time-intensive and significantly reduce data center costs and complexity.
2. Virtual IronVirtualization 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.
3. 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.
HP and Virtual Iron together
HP and Virtual Iron have partnered together to validate Virtual Iron 3.1 software with the HP BladeSystem c-Class hardware. This solution provides almost cable free deployment of a virtual data center reducing cost and complexity while providing a contemporary virtualization strategy. The entire solution is based on the HP BladeSystem c7000 enclosure. Integrated Fibre Channel and Ethernet switches connect directly to the ProLiant blade servers without any external cables. The HP StorageWorks EVA8000 storage array provides a scalable storage backend which, depending on the load, may support several hundred of virtual servers.
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