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Voltaire Certified Solutions for VMware
Features & Benefits
- Accelerates application performance by improving I/O performance, latency, and bandwidth
- Offers faster virtual server migration (VMotion)
- Increases security and isolation with hardware-based I/O virtualization
- Reduces overall capital and operational costs by consolidating I/O interfaces
- Simplifies racking and cabling (only 1-2 cables per server)
- Provides wire once, point-and-click infrastructure changes without any physical handling
- Consumes less power by using smaller servers and eliminating multiple switches and adapters
Consolidating and Virtualizing I/O for VMware Environments
Improving VMware Performance with Virtual Server I/O
Server virtualization is a great way to optimize application infrastructure in order to maximize data center efficiency. Data centers leverage server virtualization to consolidate multiple, underutilized servers onto fewer physical machines in order to save on hardware and operational costs as well as to reduce power consumption.
But consolidating multiple servers onto a single physical system compounds a server’s network, storage and inter-server I/O needs. In order to meet the aggregate I/O requirements of virtual machines, Voltaire Certified Solutions for VMware use a single multi-purpose, high speed (20 Gb/sec) adapter to consolidate, virtualize and accelerate a server’s I/O connections.
By eliminating I/O bottlenecks, you can speed the performance of VMs that are running slow. Voltaire Certified VMware Solutions provide a roadmap to optimizing VMware I/O performance by leveraging hardware-based I/O virtualization technologies.
Wire Once, Point-and-Click Infrastructure
Each physical server is “wired once” to a Voltaire I/O bus that seamlessly connects to existing Ethernet and Fibre Channel infrastructure. Based on industry standard InniBand technology, Voltaire’s 20 Gb/sec I/O bus eliminates application and VMware bottlenecks with ultra low latencies, RDMA and hardware-based partitioning and Quality of Service (QoS). This enables point-and-click creation of dynamically-changing, virtual infrastructure that address application and Virtual Machine I/O requirements at any given moment.
Simple Management of Virtual Server I/O
As virtual environments scale into the tens and hundreds of servers with individual I/O requirements, having advanced management software to centrally monitor and provision the virtual connectivity between different server, storage, and network resources is essential. Voltaire unified fabric management greatly simplifies the deployment of virtualized servers with virtual I/O by automating the creation and management of inter-server and server-to-storage connections.
Voltaire unified fabric management enables IT managers to easily manage virtualized server I/O infrastructure by complementing existing server virtualization and provisioning tools. Voltaire unified fabric management provisions each server’s virtual I/O interface as well as end-to-end network and storage connections while simultaneously collecting statistics and health information.
Through the use of virtual I/O and unified fabric management, VMware users can achieve even greater flexibility and further reduce the amount of hardware that needs to be powered. By leveraging virtual I/O, it is now possible to scale out applications by providing them the I/O resources they need.