Reducing your barriers to 10 Gbit Ethernet (10GbE):

Making it easier, faster, lower cost, dynamically re-configurable

The transition to 10GbE is following a similar trajectory to past network speed spikes — 10Mbit to 100Mbit ('Fast') to 1Gbit Ethernet… — but this time it's not just about finessing the expense questions incumbent in upgrading your network: There are dramatically larger simultaneous disruptions that are complicating the transitions. Two of the greatest 'other' impacts are:

• Multi-core CPUs — as opposed to 'simply' faster CPUs, todays servers are manifesting Moore's law by adding more CPU cores as well. This is creating a situation where the server has the CPU and memory capacity to consolidate many simultaneous tasks that previously would have been spread around the network on multiple servers, on multiple network ports.
• Enterprise Server Virtualization — which is making it increasingly likely that a multi-core server is going to be demanding I/O exceeding that of several single-use servers of only a few years ago.

What this means is that in addition to requiring the increased bandwidth that 10GbE offers, today's Server Administrators are requiring much greater agility to solving their I/O problems than simply asking for more scarce 10GbE ports.

Transitioning your Data Center toward Stateless Computing and/or Deploying Clouds:

Now, without re-building from scratch 

Unlike closed, proprietary approaches to Stateless or Cloud Computing that lock you in to a single server vendor, Virtensys I/O Virtualization solutions facilitate Stateless Computing benefits for even hard-to-virtualize applications, and with the industry-standard x86 servers you know and are already buying and deploying.

Read how with Virtensys, you can extend your current capabilities and infrastructure, as well as protect and leverage your existing investments in tools, processes and training to create a more Stateless Computing model today, and can gain even greater benefits in the future.

Accelerate your Server Virtualization initiatives through transparent I/O Virtualization

Read how Virtensys I/O Virtualization solutions are the logical complement to Enterprise Server Virtualization. With Virtensys, many of the common barriers to more widespread Server Virtualization deployment are brought under control:

• Low-Latency, granular networking: Optimize network resources across more of your virtualization infrastructure, with finer granularity and greater agility;
• Make the VM hosts in your virtualization environment even more valuable by leveraging what Virtensys calls 'local diskless booting' of servers, where you configure all your VM hosts as generic, high-performance and high-capacity compute nodes, and easily extend the agility of virtualization across larger numbers of servers
• Storage Access: Increasing the access to and reduce the barriers to greater availability of scarce Fibre Channel.

Solving the I/O barriers holding back Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Implementation

Virtensys I/O Virtualization solutions can reduce considerable risk in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments by providing more flexibility and agility to manage the I/O in the Server infrastructure to more nimbly — and transparently — react to the unique and dynamic I/O characteristics that limit VDI implementations.

All of this while you more aggressively scale your server infrastructure.

Getting more while you Virtualize:

Enhanced — and Enhancing — Virtualization

As Virtualization is making the transition to a mainstream business solution, IT managers are looking for ways to accelerate the transition to a more virtualized environment. However, there are still applications that are challenging to virtualize.

Virtensys I/O Virtualization solutions are being used to remove bottlenecks and dramatically improve the performance and agility of virtualized environments, and to provide virtualization benefits for even non-virtualized applications.

Implement Performance-oriented Compute Clusters with standard Components

For application compute clusters, Virtensys I/O Virtualization provides transparent, high-performance, low-latency connection between standard x86 servers, bringing functionality that can address some of the typical issues faced in performance-oriented, clustered application environments.

Increasing access to Fibre Channel Storage at lower cost — I/O Virtualization with iSCSI and FCoE

Although I/O Virtualization and FCoE both have similar aims in reducing the cost base of data centers, they are complementary — or perhaps orthogonal — to each other. The adoption of I/O Virtualization in server systems may lower the barrier to adoption for FCoE, and accelerate iSCSI deployments.