Product Features
Virtensys I/O Virtualization Switches
The most cost effective way to deploy LAN/SAN/DAS connectivity to servers
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VIO-4001
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The VIO-4000 series delivers fast, scalable LAN/SAN/DAS I/O connectivity to servers and is available in two model configurations. A single switch can be connected to 16 servers and provide up to four virtual I/O adapters with dual port Ethernet, Fibre Channel or SAS/SATA direct attached storage.
The VIO-4000 series supports dense deployment of 1U and sub 1U servers that have no I/O adapters or disks; the only requirement is for a single PCI Express slot for a passive PCI Express Extender card.
The VIO-4000 switches are the first products in the market to consolidate, virtualize and share three major types of server networking and storage connectivity:
- Ethernet
- Converged Unified Fabric (FCoE)
- SAS/SATA and Fibre Channel
The VIO-4000 switch is available for data center deployment in two form key flavors for standard 19" 2U rack-mount units:
- VIO-4001 – 16 server ports, delivers LAN/SAN connectivity, up to 80 Gbps performance
- VIO-4008 – includes shareable RAID storage with 8 SAS/SATA hot plug disk drives
Feature Highlights
- Consolidates and virtualizes commercial off-the-shelf I/O adapters
- Delivers virtual Fibre Channel, Ethernet NIC and Storage RAID adapters to servers in a rack
- Virtual adapters appear exactly like physical adapters to servers
- Enables diskless, adapter-less servers allowing denser data center deployments
- Requires no change to server software
- Uses open PCI Express standards technology already in every server
- Includes Virtensys Management Suite, with remote management CLI and web interfaces
- Provides up to 80 Gbps uplink capability
Product Specifics
- Virtualizes common PCI Express I/O adapters
- 1 GE or 10 GE Ethernet Network Interface Cards
- 4 or 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters
- 3 or 6 Gbps RAID controllers
- Pool multiple I/O cards to maximize available bandwidth and connectivity
- Immediate savings for 2-32 server deployments in a data center rack
- Deployable in active/active, active/passive redundancy model
- Requires no change to I/O adapters, their device drivers and management software
- No change to server software
- Works with widely used operating systems and hypervisors
- 19”, 2U rack mountable unit
- Hot swap power supplies
- Hot swap redundant fans
- Hot Plug PCI Express slots for I/O adapters
- Remote management LAN port
- Hot plug disk bays
- PCI Express extension adapters
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