Verari continues to innovate blades for VMWare

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Verari Systems announced that the Verari Systems’ VB1257 VMware ESX 3.5 certified blade delivers twice the number of VMware virtual machines per blade than similar competitive blade offerings while consuming 50% less power. On a per VMware image basis, the VB1257 for the BladeRack 2 XL (BR2-XL) platform provides better total cost of ownership than any competing blade server products. VMware provides TAP program members with tools to develop products that are complementary to VMware virtualization software and help deliver high-value solutions to our joint customers.

The Verari Systems’ VB1257 blade is certified on VMware ESX 3.5 and powered by the latest low power Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors. When combined with the BR2-XL platform, the solution delivers twice the number of VMware virtual machines with energy efficiency, density and scalability while reducing operational expenses.

Configuring the hypervisor, the application or the layered components to your platform is the best way to achieve the most from your infrastructure. Ensuring that the optimal driver packs, firmware and configurations are deployed can change the results of performance and reliability not just of the core hardware, the blade, the server but of the components, the fibre cards etc.

These new Verari blade servers sound interesting, I’ll need to check them out, the fewer physical blades, network cards and infrastructure I have to deploy to deliver my IT, the lower the provisioning, operational and support costs. This becomes an ever important concept as the cost of energy and cooling continues to rise.