True Server Virtualization for Everyone
Virtual Iron provides a true server virtualization software platform with a focus on small and medium
enterprise customers. The product includes advanced capabilities and has been deployed in
thousands of organizations to support a variety of data center initiatives.
It's cost effective, easy to use, and is deployed, integrated and certified
with a wide range of server, network, and storage solutions.
With Virtual Iron, users can:
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** Manage virtual machines for upgrades, rapid deployment, performance
management and business continuance. |
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** Consolidate servers and reduce physical infrastructure requirments. |
| ** Reduce power, cooling, and floor space consumption. |
** Virtualize production applications running on unmodified Windows and
Linux. |
| ** Quickly set up development, test, and production environments. |
| ** Recover from failures quickly, reliably, and cost-efficiently. |
| ** Match resource capacity to workload demands automatically. |
Virtual Iron is a bare metal virtualization platform that consists of three layers:
1. The hypervisor provides the foundation for Virtual Iron. It fully leverages the latest
hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities to create an abstraction layer between
physical hardware and virtual resources.
2. Virtualization services provide advanced capabilites on top of the hypervisor, including
server partitioning and virtual infrastructure creation.
3. An enterprise-class Virtualization Manager provides an easy and scalable way to create,
administer, and manage the complete lifecycle of virtual machines including creation, starting
and stopping, rebooting, cloning, and uninstalling. Virtualization Manager is at the core
of the solution and it provides a sophisticated and reliable solution that makes Virtual Iron
suitable for mission-critical applications.
Key Product Features:
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Simple Deployment and Installation: |
** Live ProvisionTM- Virtualization stack deployed automatically without manual
software install. |
| ** Live UpgradeTM- Upgrades without any virtual machine downtime. |
| ** Supports wide variety of local storage: SATA, SCSI, SAS. |
| ** Supports both fibre channel and iSCSI network storage. |
| Industry-Leading Performance and Scalability: |
| ** Bare metal x86 virtualization for peak performance. |
| ** Built to fully leverage Intel and AMD virtualization technology. |
| ** High speed I/O drivers for enhanced disk and network performance. |
** High performance shared storage to centralize virtual machine file storage
for greater manageability, flexibility and availability. |
| Integrated Multi-Server Management: |
** Easy to use web-based user interface to create and administer the virtual
environment. |
** Full lifecycle management of VMs including creation, starting and stopping,
cloning, and provisioning. |
| ** Built in-capacity monitoring and dynamic workload management. |
| ** Multi-pathing for virtual server ethernet and fibre channel networks. |
| On Demand Virtual Machine Deployment: |
| ** Supports creation and deployment of Windows and Linux virtual machines. |
| ** Create virtual machines from OS install sources. |
| ** Leverage VLAN to enable more networks on fewer NICs. |
** Integrated import/export for backup, archival and interoperability with other
virtualization platforms. |