Features

• Consolidate and virtualise LAN and DAS connectivity to the servers
• 16 server connection ports
• Consolidates and virtualises up to 4 commercial off-the-shelf I/O adapters and share them between the connected servers
• 2x dual port 10-Gigabit Ethernet NICs
• 2x dual port 6-Gigabit 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
• 8 hot-plug 3.5" disk drive bays
• Supports SAS drives for performance and SATA drives with capacities exceeding 1TB each
• Support RAID levels 5 and 6
• Connects to server using 20 Gbps PCI Express interconnect
• Includes Virtensys Management Suite (VMS), with remote management CLI and web interfaces
• Support industry standard protocol including SNMP/CIM/ IPMI
• Deliver full LAN and DAS connectivity bandwidth to servers
• 2U rack mountable switch in standard 19" racks
• Works seamlessly in traditional (non-virtualised) and in cloud/virtualised server environment
• Remote management LAN port 10/100/1000 MB
• Support active-active and active-passive deployments
• Support remote boot through the virtualised DAS
• Hot swap redundant fans
• Hot swap power supply
  
  

Benefits

• Up to 60% reduction in I/O equipment costs
• Up to 60% reduction in I/O power consumption
• Reduce data centre management complexity and expenses by more than 60%
• No changes to the existing data centre environment
• No changes to the servers, OS, applications, I/O adapters, device drivers, networks, storage or management infrastructures
• No deployment of a new network in the data centre
• Enhance data centre flexibility and agility
• Change servers' connectivity to LAN and DAS without any physical reconfiguration
• Dynamic allocation of LAN and DAS connectivity to servers
• Dynamic allocation of LAN bandwidth to servers
• Dynamic repurposing of servers
• Dynamic migration of application between servers
• Enhance data centre reliability
• More than 60% reduction in number of I/O adapters, switch ports and cables
• Reduction in human intervention
• Extend data centre life cycle
• Increase network and storage resource utilisation to more than 80%
• Enables adapter-less servers allowing denser data centre deployments
• Reduce power consumption and space requirements