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BladeRack 2 and Virtualization

Enabling Next Generation IT Infrastructures.

A top priority for most IT organizations is improving operational efficiency. Their desire is to reduce their TCO while also reducing the complexity and increasing the flexibility of their infrastructure, and doing so within limited floorspace, power, and cooling constraints. Blade servers and virtualization each confront these issues in their own right. But, in combination their value is compounded, providing an exceptionally compelling solution.
 

See how Verari Systems' Virtualization technology is helping to power the Green Data Center
 

Verari Systems' BladeRack 2 X-Series offers unparalleled density, power and cooling efficiency and extremely efficient manageability. System consolidation, a key industry trend, is directly addressed by the BladeRack 2 X-Series and our near-term roadmap takes virtualization support to the next level and will further enhance the BladeRack 2 X-Series offering as a consolidation solution. Several dimensions of Virtualization comprise the Verari strategy: server, desktop, and storage.

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Server Virtualization

Verari is currently developing virtual-ready blade form-factor servers for its BladeRack 2 X-Series that are optimized for VMware's ESX operating system, and will meet or exceed all of the VMware required certifications. These blades will offer a variety of processor capabilities (Core count; AMD, Intel® options), memory capacity, and storage strategies, both diskful and diskless (SAN-based operation). Verari virtual-ready blades will also be highly effective for use with other hypervisor offerings from vendors such as XenSource and Microsoft®, as well as other leading compute virtualization products.

Verari Command Center® (VCC) will directly recognize and support Virtual Machine-based Blades later this calendar year. Combinations of physical and virtual servers will be seamlessly manageable from a single interface, including the ability to manage, configure, and monitor virtual machines on physical machines based on ESX. Furthermore, VCC will be complementary to VMware's VMotion technology, for clustered ESX solution environments.

Additionally, Verari is working closely with third-party providers to offer an additional dimension of server consolidation that enables server pools, failover, and SAN provisioning of Verari BladeRack 2 products at present.
 

Storage Virtualization

Verari will be delivering utility and high performance storage solutions with industry leading density in a single rack. The BladeRack 2 Storage Subsystems offer the capability to provide up to 24 Terabytes per subsystem, and 432 Terabytes per BladeRack 2 enclosure. These Storage Subsystems will be made available with SAN and NAS configurations, supporting storage virtualization strategies and a "Storage Centric Architecture." Storage Centric Architecture is a key component to consolidation, and complements both desktop and server virtualization efforts underway at Verari. Both "utility storage" and "high end storage" solutions will be offered within a Verari platform.

As a further consolidation benefit, Verari BladeRack 2's can support heterogeneous combinations of compute, storage, and backracked desktop blades in a single rack. The ability to mix and match infrastructure supports the model of a "Data Center in a Box," including but not limited to the ability to shape the total power density of a data center around this efficient, flexible platform.
 

Desktop Virtualization

Verari has an aggressive development program underway, with plans for a near future release of desktop virtualization for its BladeRack 2 racks. "Back racking" of PC desktops will be supported, enabling desktop users with multiple screens to have a seamless compute environment, while all the benefits of cost-of-ownership of the BladeRack 2 systems applies to the PC hardware itself, which is enabled through blade servers. Basic and advanced connection management strategies will be offered for this, enabling hundreds to thousands of desktops to be virtualized and consolidated with extremely beneficial cost of ownership improvements.