VIO-4008

Ethernet and Local Direct Attached Storage I/O Virtualization

VIO-4008 Ethernet and Local Direct Attached Storage I/O Virtualization

The award-winning VIO-4008 consolidates and virtualizes network and local storage connectivity to a rack of servers and provides up to 40Gbps of Ethernet uplink bandwidth and up to 16TB of local storage connectivity to the servers. The VIO-4008 I/O Virtualization system eliminates, consolidates and virtualizes 10GE Ethernet NICs. The VIO-4008 connects to up to 16 servers and shares the physical NICs as virtual NICs (vNICs) between the servers without requiring any changes to the servers, OS, applications or I/O device drivers. The VIO-4008 provides up to 4x 10GE uplinks to the attached servers and connects directly to the corporate network without additional layer of switching. In a similar way, the VIO-4008 also virtualizes up to 2x 6G SAS/SATA MegaRAID HBAs and shares between the server as vHBAs. It also includes 8 disk drive bays that provide >16 TB of local Direct Attached Storage (DAS) that are shared between the servers, thus eliminating the internal drives from the servers. The VIO-4008 supports traditional and SSD drives with different levels of RAID.

The VIO-4008 attaches to each server using a single PCI Express® (PCIe) cable that connects to the server-native PCIe bus and provides 20Gbps bandwidth. The PCIe cable replaces the multiple Ethernet cables per server and carries both Ethernet and DAS traffic. The TOR Ethernet access layer switches are also eliminated. This reduces I/O capital equipment costs and lowers I/O power consumption, server management complexity & operational expenses by more than 60% compared to traditional deployments.

The VIO-4008 enables servers to be wired once and than dynamically reconfigured with different Ethernet and DAS profiles - without any physical reconfiguration. It is a lossless and non-blocking system that delivers the full connectivity bandwidth to each server and supports both traditional and converged networks. The total networking bandwidth and storage capacity can be dynamically allocated and shared between servers on- demand. Denser 1U or sub-1U servers can replace traditional 2U or larger servers. The connectivity to the servers is managed as a single entity through a management console.

Key Benefits of the VIO-4008

VIO-4008 reduces I/O equipment count, costs and power consumption for Ethernet and Local Direct attached Storage (DAS) I/O deployments to servers by 60%.
Enhances data center flexibility and agility
- Enables servers to be wired once and reconfigured at will with different Ethernet and local storage (DAS) profiles without any physical changes.
- Dynamic allocation of LAN connectivity and bandwidth to servers
- Dynamic allocation of LUNs to servers
- Dynamic repurposing of servers
- Dynamic migration of application between servers
Allows you to deploy Stateless Computing in your environment using industry-standard x86 servers, OS and applications
- Avoid vendor lock-in and fork-lift upgrade in your data center
Lowers server management complexity and operational expenses by >60% by managing I/O resources as a single entity.
The VIO-4008 delivers 20Gbps bandwidth to each server per PCIe connection without introducing any bottleneck in the LAN Networks.
The VIO-4008 Maintains the existing capabilities and doesn't introduce any changes to the Network Infrastructures.
Doesn't require the deployment of a new network in the data center
Enhances data center reliability
- More than 60% reduction in number of I/O adapters, switch ports and cables
- Reduction in human intervention
Extend data center life cycle
- Increase network and storage resource utilization to more than 80%
- Enables adapter-less servers allowing denser data center deployments
- Reduce power consumption and space requirements

VIO-4008 Specifications

Features »

Provides 40Gbps Ethernet uplink bandwidth to servers
Provides 12 Gbps of SAS/SATA RAID capability to servers
Delivers full LAN connectivity and Local Direct Storage to servers
19", 2U rack mountable switch
16 server connection ports
Consolidates and virtualizes up to 4 commercial off-the-shelf I/O adapters and share them between the connected servers:
- 2x dual port Intel 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapters
- 2x dual port 6-Gigabit LSI SAS/SATA RAID HBAs
Delivers virtual I/O adapters to each connected server:
- Virtual adapters emulate exactly the physical adapters
- I/O vendor certified adapter device drivers run unmodified on servers
Connects to server using server-native PCI Express interconnect :
- X4 PCIe Gen 1 at 10Gbps and X4 PCIe Gen 2 at 20 Gbps
Works seamlessly in traditional (non-virtualized) and in cloud / virtualized server environment including Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Linux, VMware ESX 4.0 and Red Hat 5.3
Supports active/active and active/passive redundancy models
Hot-swap power supply
Hot-swap redundant fans
Remote management 10/100/1000MB LAN port
8 x 3.5" hot-plug disk bays

High Availability »

Chassis Power

One AC/DC power supply (standard), delivering 500W DC power.
Optional second 500W AC/DC power supply for 1+1 redundancy.
Power supplies are load-sharing, hot-swappable (from rear of product).

Cooling

Six fan modules arranged in a 3X2 redundant array (5+1 redundancy). Fans are hot-swappable.

Solution Availability

Hot-pluggable redundant power supplies and fans.

Mechanical Specifications »

Enclosure

Front to rear airflow

Width

19” Rackmount width (483mm)

Height

2U height: 3.5” (88mm)

Depth

26” depth (660mm)

System weight

50 lbs (23kg) fully-configured weight (with 8 disks, 4 PCI-e cards, 8 SCC cards)

Environment »

Temperature

Operating: 0° C to 40° C (32° F to 104° F)
Non-operating: –40° C to 60° C (–40° F to 140° F)

Humidity

Operating: 8% to 80% non-condensing at 40° C (104° F)
Non-operating and storage (non-condensing): 5% to 80%

Altitude

0 to 3000 ft (0 to 914m) at full operating temperature range.
0 to 7000 ft (0 to 2134m) at maximum operating temperature of 32° C (89° F)

Shock

Operating: 20G, 11 ms, half sine. 1G p-p, 5–500Hz, 1 octave min
Non-operating: 33G, 11 ms, half sine. 2.4G p-p, 5–500Hz, 1 octave min

Vibration

Operating: 5G p-p, 0 to 3 kHz at 1.0 octave min
Non-operating: 10G p-p, 0 to 5 kHz at 1.0 octave min

Heat Dissipation

735 W or 2508 BTU (500 W DC internal draw)

Power »

Supported Power Range

90 to 264 VAC (autosensing)
Rated Current
- 8.0 A at 115 VAC
- 4.0 A at 230 VAC

In-Rush Current

60 Amps maximum, peak at 115 VAC (per power module)
80 Amps maximum, peak at 230 VAC (per power module)

Frequency

47 to 63 Hz

Regulatory Compliance »

SAFETY

Safety of information technology equipmentEN 60950-1:2001; UL 60950

EMISSIONS

Radiated EmissionsEN 55022: 2006 (Amended by A1:2007) Class A ; FCC CFR 47 Part 2 and 15: Class A
Conducted EmissionsEN 55022: 2006 (Amended by A1:2007) Class A ; FCC CFR 47 Part 2 and 15: Class A
FlickerEN 61000-3-3:1995 (Amended by A1:2001 and A2:2005)
HarmonicsEN 61000-3-2:2006

IMMUNITY

EN 55024:1998 (Amended by A1:2001 and A2:2003)
and the provisions of the directives listed below:
- Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC
- EMC Directive 2004/108/EC