Xsigo Systems, the technology leader in data center I/O virtualisation, has announced the integration of the Xsigo VP780 I/O Director with VMware Infrastructure 3. The solution is available immediately as a plug-in for VMware VirtualCenter 2.5, the central management console for VMware Infrastructure environments, allowing users to manage VMware virtual machines and virtual I/O resources from a single console. The combined solution enables virtual machine I/O performance optimisation, accelerates failover and reduces I/O hardware requirements.

Data centers that use the integrated virtual I/O solution can quickly deploy and configure virtual machine I/O resources and eliminate I/O bottlenecks that can degrade virtual machine performance. Additionally, they achieve greater I/O mobility to accelerate failover and disaster recovery management. The solution also reduces server I/O card requirements by up to 70 percent, allowing users to deploy less expensive 1U high servers rather than larger 4U high devices.

The Xsigo I/O Director virtualises I/O to simplify management and reduce infrastructure requirements, which helps IT managers deploy VMware software faster, on more servers, and across more applications.

“We welcome Xsigo’s approach for managing VMware virtual machines and virtual I/O from a single console,” said Brian Byun, vice president of global partners and solutions at VMware. “We see Xsigo’s VP780 I/O Director as a complementary solution to VMware Infrastructure that provides flexibility as well as I/O scalability and resilience.”

“VMware users demand more from server I/O, and need faster, more flexible solutions to accelerate production deployments, reduce costs, and help ensure predictable application performance,” said Ashok Krishnamurthi, executive chairman of Xsigo Systems. “The Xsigo I/O Director was designed to meet the needs of virtual machines by providing a virtual I/O infrastructure that completes the virtualisation ecosystem.”

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•Date: 31st January 2008• Region: US/World•Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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