Verari and Xsigo enable virtualization

May 28th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid5_gci1315149,00.html

Verari Systems Inc. and Xsigo Systems Inc. have forged a partnership to help make it easier to virtualize I/O between blade servers and storage.

Verari said today it is offering Xsigo’s VP780 I/O Director integrated with the Verari BladeRack 2 X-Series platform. The idea is to reduce the amount of connections while making it easier to manage the rapidly increasing virtual servers connected to networks and storage. Verari will sell and support the integrated product.Verari’s high-density BladeRack 2 X-Series network storage blades hold up to 32 storage and 64 network connections per blade. Xsigo’s VP780 I/O Director connects servers to SANs and LANs with one card and one cable. It includes 24 server ports and 15 slots for I/O modules. The I/O Director connects to servers by InfiniBand and to storage through I/O modules that support 4 Gbps Fibre Channel, or 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps Ethernet.

Very cool, this could be an ideal solution for virtualization, bringing together Verari’s blade platform with Xsigo’s virtual I/O could be a real enabler. Being able to reduce the ‘time to live’ in cutting/provisioning and changing storage could be the difference between delivery and not from a service delivery standpoint. I’ll need to check it out.

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