Voltaire Teams Up with Xen for Virtual Data Center Solution

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Tuesday, April 26, 2005; 04:03 PM

Voltaire (www.voltaire.com), a provider in interconnect solutions for high performance grid computing today announced the completed integration and support for Xen server virtualization software with its InfiniBand-based grid interconnect solutions.

The combined solution, which includes Voltaire network and storage virtualization technology, creates a highly scalable data center infrastructure by eliminating I/O overhead and providing the full flexibility to choose any application to run on any virtual server, and dynamically allocate compute, network, and storage resources.  Voltaire will demonstrate the solution today at the Linux on Wall Street conference in New York City in booth 222.

Voltaire grid interconnect solutions consist of layer 2-7 multiprotocol switches with integrated InfiniBand, GbE and Fibre Channel connectivity, grid  management and virtualization software, adapters and other software that enable high performance applications to run on virtualized server and storage resources.

"We see strong demand for server virtualization solutions coming from our enterprise customers, with large Wall Street firms in the lead," said Yaron Haviv, Chief Technology Officer, Voltaire. 

"We are pleased with the progress and commitment shown by Voltaire to support Xen," said Moshe Bar, CTO of XenSource. "The integrated solution of Xen server virtualization with Voltaire grid interconnect with hardware-based virtual I/O enables customers to build high-performance virtual data center environments."
Voltaire switches are centrally controlled and virtualized through embedded VoltaireVision Grid Interconnect Management software. 

VoltaireVision uses industry-standard interfaces to enterprise management platforms and can be provisioned by automation and policy platforms such as IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator and others.  The integration of provisioning management tools, server virtualization software and intelligent grid interconnect solutions is the foundation of the next generation data center.

Xen is an open source server virtualization architecture that allows users to run multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) simultaneously on the same physical server.

Each VM gets a portion of the server CPU, memory and I/O from Xen, which dynamically assigns resources to virtual machines or migrates virtual machines to other servers, if needed.

Voltaire GridBoot is complementary to Xen as it enables the complete disaggregation of compute and storage resources.

Voltaire's solution enables users to run diskless stations, perform pre-boot remote diagnostics and conduct maintenance tasks using standard tools such as OSCAR, ROCKS and IBM Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator and other commercial applications.

Voltaire is the leader in interconnect solutions for high performance grid computing. Voltaire's InfiniBand-based interconnect solutions deliver significant return on investment to the data center by improving the performance and utilization of clustered databases, shared servers and storage.