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| | PRIMERGY Blade Server IO virtualization (VIOM) |
ServerView Virtual-IO Manager or VIOM is a synonym for PRIMERGY Blade Server IO virtualization which greatly simplifies the administration of PRIMERGY Blade Servers in LAN and SAN environments while providing highest flexibility at their deployment or operation. It removes an entire layer of complexity from current switching architectures thru virtualization of physical network addresses and clear separation of server management from LAN & SAN management.
The IO systems are completely independent from operating systems and fully transparent to applications, services, network and storage systems. This allows for transparent service shifting or server failover and fast and easy start-up of spare or additional Server Blades. Also entire SAN and LAN pools can be pre-configured, saving time and cost, since IO addresses can be pre-assigned, ready for “plug and go” with Server Blades.
With ServerView Virtual-IO Manager previously complex and time-consuming data center tasks can be carried out much easier and in minutes versus hours and days: Managing new installations, performing fast, cost-effective system recovery, running planned system maintenance and undertaking mass system migration - for example moving test systems into production. |
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Operational issues- Static physical network addresses are flexibility/agility barriers
- Blade replacement/application move requires LAN/SAN reconfigurations
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- Overlap causes simultaneuos operations of server, storage and network admin
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Connection Blades |
| ServerView Virtual-IO Manager implies harmonized IO hardware modules the so called Connection Blades. The Connection Blades offer high throughput and similar to conventional switches cost and failure reduction thru cable consolidation. Further the various administration domains (Server, LAN, SAN) can be smartly separated. |
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I/O VIRTUALIZATION - KEY BENEFITS | |
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- Separates server management from LAN & SAN management
Decrease administration effort and costs by defining once and adding, replacing and recovering Server Blades without affecting LAN or SAN administrators - Separate and virtualize server IO parameters in a HW- independent profile repository
Reduce typical time and costs to deploy, maintain and recover Blade Servers - Become completely independent from operating system and achieve transparency to any application, network, storage
No certification required, works with any operating system and Hypervisor - Setup and pre-configure entire LAN & SAN environment before actual server HW availability
Speed up deployment, save time and costs - Flexible, fast reallocation of application (images) by moving profiles between Server Blades and enclosures
Increase server utilization, quick adaptation to business needs - Scalable up to hundreds of Server Blades and enclosures
Increase administrators’ efficiency, reduce costs - "Path through like" connectivity/direct connection architecture
Cost and failure reduction by cable consolidation, high throughput
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