Virtensys Adds New I/O Virtualization Solution To Further Enhance Performance Of Virtualized Environments: Page 2 of 2

"With budgets under pressure and the need to quickly migrate to a more flexible IT infrastructure, CIOs continuously need to improve data center agility, enhance performance and reduce capital expenditures and power consumption without disrupting their existing processes," said Joe Skorupa research VP at Gartner. "I/O virtualization solutions have the potential to allow organizations to run traditional and cloud-based applications more efficiently."

The VIO-4004 consolidates and virtualizes network connectivity to a rack of servers and provides up to 80 Gbps of converged Ethernet uplink bandwidth to the servers. The VIO-4004 eliminates the physical Ethernet NICs from servers within a rack and virtualizes up to four dual-port 10 GbE adapters. It creates up to 256 virtual NICs in each of the servers and provides I/O line rate to servers and virtual machines.

The VIO-4000 series enables all the servers to concurrently use the physical I/O adapters, and dynamically allocates and shares the bandwidth between servers based on applications' performance needs. It connects to servers via the native PCI Express?? interconnect and is compliant with the PCISIG Single-Root IOV (SR-IOV) and Multi-Root IOV (MR-IOV) specifications. The VIO-4000 systems eliminate network and storage access layer switches and cables from the racks, reducing I/O power consumption, capital equipment costs, number of cables, server management complexity, and operational expenses by more than 50 percent. The VIO-4000 series delivers the industry's best I/O price/performance and lowest energy consumption for connecting servers to the network and storage infrastructures through traditional or converged networks.

The VIO-4004 systems are immediately available through the Virtensys worldwide partner network.