Virtual Iron provides enterprise-class software for server virtualisation & virtual infrastructure management. The product offers comparable capabilities and performance to established proprietary offerings – for just a fraction of the cost. By taking full advantage of industry standards and open source economics, Virtual Iron dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of virtualization and for the first time, makes production-ready capabilities available to the mainstream market.
Product Variants - Virtual Iron
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Features
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Virtual Iron enables server partitioning for single and multi-server configuration, no downtime virtual server migration (LiveMigrate), advanced management capabilities for rapid provisioning, high availability and disaster recovery (LiveRecovery) and capacity management (LiveCapacity). With these advanced capabilities, users can:
- Virtualize enterprise-class workloads running on unmodified Windows and Linux operating systems.
- Improve the utilization of current systems and reduce power, space and cooling issues through server consolidation.
- Quickly set up development, test and production environments.
- Recover from failures quickly, reliably and cost-efficiently.
- Match resource capacity to workload demands automatically.
- Reduce human labor and errors via policy-based automation.
Benefits
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1. Virtual Iron's Virtualization Manager provides a central place to control and automate virtual resources. It streamlines tasks that are normally highly manual and time-intensive and significantly reduce data center costs and complexity.
2. Virtual Iron's Virtualization Services are deployed automatically on bare-metal, industry-standard servers without requiring software installation or management. These features streamline data center management and reduce operational costs.
3. Open Source Virtualization, based on an open source hypervisor derived from the open source community project, is the first software loaded when the physical server boots. The hypervisor manages all hardware resources and leverages the hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities built into Intel and AMD processors to create an abstraction layer between physical hardware and virtual resources.
Editions
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Virtual Iron Extended Enterprise Edition
Virtual Iron Extended Enterprise Edition provides the most advanced server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management capabilities.
Virtual Iron Extended Enterprise Edition includes:
- Enterprise-class performance running on unmodified Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Automated high availability using LiveRecovery, and automated capacity management using LiveCapacity.
- LiveConvert P2V and V2V migrations powered by PlateSpin.
- No limitation on the number of virtual server guests.
- Large memory support - each physical server can scale up to 128GB of RAM.
- Comprehensive virtualization management including rapid provisioning from templated virtual servers.
- Transparent LiveMigration of virtual servers between physical servers without disruption.
- Simple and easy deployment - only one piece of software to install.
Virtual Iron Enterprise Edition Pricing
Virtual Iron Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management capabilities.
With Virtual Iron Enterprise Edition, users get:
- Enterprise-class performance running on unmodified Linux and Windows operating systems.
- No limitation on the number of virtual server guests - support 80 or more per physical server.
- Large memory support - each physical server can scale up to 96GB of RAM.
- Comprehensive virtualization management including rapid provisioning from templated virtual servers.
- Transparent LiveMigration of virtual servers between physical servers without disruption.
- Simple and easy deployment - only one piece of software to install.
System Req.
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Virtual Server Operating Systems Support
Virtual Iron enables administrators to configure and manage multiple operating systems, of different types and versions, on one or more managed servers.
Version 4 supports virtual servers running the following:
- RHEL 3 U8 32-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 U4 and U5 32- and 64-Bit
- Oracle Unbreakable Linux 4 U4 and U5 32- and 64-Bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3 32- and 64-Bit
- Windows 2000 32-Bit
- Windows XP Professional 32-Bit
- Windows Server 2003 32-Bit
- Windows Server 2003 32-Bit SP2
- Windows Vista 32-Bit
- CentOS 4.4
Version 3 supports virtual servers running the following:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 U2 and U4 32- and 64-Bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3 32- and 64-Bit
- Windows XP Professional 32-Bit
- Windows Server 2003 32-Bit
- Windows Server 2003 32-Bit SP2
- CentOS 4.4
Enterprise Edition Management Server, Minimum Requirements
One server hosts the Virtual Iron Virtualization Manager, the management application that supports the actions you will perform when installing, configuring and using Virtual Iron. Minimum requirements include:
- 1 CPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 30 GB hard drive
- 2 Ethernet ports
OSs supported:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 U4 and U5 32- and 64-Bit
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3 32- and 64-Bit
- Windows Server 2003 32-Bit
- CentOS 4.4
Enterprise Edition Managed Servers, Minimum Requirements
- 2 GB RAM
- CD-ROM drive
- 2 Ethernet ports
- Your virtualized nodes must have Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) hardware assist (How to check if your hardware is virtualization ready). For a list of supported hardware, please click here. If you do not have a server with hardware-assisted virtualization, please contact your reseller or hardware provider.
Single Server Edition, Minimum Requirements
- 2 GB RAM
- CD-ROM drive
- 36 GB hard drive
- 1 Ethernet port
- Your virtualized nodes must have Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) hardware assist (How to check if your hardware is virtualization ready). For a list of supported hardware, please click here. If you do not have a server with hardware-assisted virtualization, please contact your reseller or hardware provider.