ViSX G3 Solutions for Virtualized Server Environments

More and more IT departments are turning to server virtualization to reduce costs, improve efficiency, increase service levels, and enable more flexibility in their data center. Server virtualization allows you streamline your data center by consolidating server operations onto a smaller number of physical servers running multiple applications and operating systems. It frees IT operations from the restraints of physical hardware limits, enabling you to move workloads, add servers, change operating systems, quickly and easily as you need to.

Key benefits of server virtualization include:

• Lower OPEX – By enabling you to consolidate all operations onto a smaller number of host servers, server virtualization reduces the cost of data center footprint, physical hardware administration, and power/cooling costs.
• Increased efficiency – Server virtualization enables you to allocate resources – such as performance, capacity, etc. where it is needed without the over-provisioning inherent in physical server environments.
• Improved flexibility – Server virtualization enables you to respond quickly to changing data center needs—add new servers, applications, or operating systems as your business requirements demand.

Demanding Virtual Server Performance Requirements

However, running multiple applications and operating systems on a single physical host server can significantly slow performance and limit the number of virtual machines (VMs) that can be run on each host.

In a physical server environment, storage access is a mixture of sequential and random IO. But after virtualization, storage access becomes highly random – requiring many more IOPs to maintain the same level of performance. Until now, there was no simple, cost-effective way to add IOPs performance to VMs to enable efficient server virtualization, or to back up or recover virtualized data stores. The result: few VMs per server, limited server consolidation, poor ROI.

Successful server virtualization implementations require a simple, cost-effective way to boost performance and handle the random IO processing requirements of a virtual server environment.

Astute Networks’ ViSX G3™ is a simple, cost-effective, VMware certified solution that simply connects to existing infrastructure via a standard Ethernet port and lets IT managers add performance to a virtual environment where they need it.

Networked Performance Flashâ„¢ - Key to Successful Server Virtualization

The Astute Networks ViSX G3 delivers the performance you need to realize the benefits of server virtualization. It simply plugs into your existing infrastructure via a standard Ethernet port and connects via 1G/10G Ethernet accessed via iSCSI. Patented DataPump™ Engine processor technology instantly adds 80,000 IOPS. It accelerates network traffic (TCP/IP), virtualized data store traffic (iSCSI), flash performance, and RAID protection, with sustained 100 percent random I/O. The ViSX G3’s unique Networked Performance Flash™ architecture lets you add performance to VMs where you want it without the limitations of physical server hardware.

Benefits include:

• Cost saving consolidation. ViSX G3 lets you put more VMs on each host machine for dramatic savings in TCO.
• Flexibility. Add performance where you need it, when you need it to respond to changing business requirements.
• Increase application availability. ViSX G3 delivers the performance needed for efficient server backup to eliminate scheduled downtime and recover faster from unplanned issues.

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