Raskere og forbedrede virtualiseringsløsninger

I dag har vi lansert nye høyhastighetsmuligheter for enkelte av våre lagrings- og nettverksløsninger, inkludert mulighet for 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE).

Virtualisering har vært et moteord i IT-bransjen i flere år, men der serverne og selve lagringsenhetene har blitt mye bedre har det også vært flaskehalser i systemene, nemlig overføringshastigheten ut og inn av selve boksene.

Nå oppgraderer vi vår serie med lagringsenheter, Dell/EMC CX4, og i løpet av de neste ukene vil en rekke nye muligheter åpne seg for våre kunder. Vi sakser fra dagens pressemelding (på engelsk):

• 10Gb iSCSI is the next-generation of the iSCSI (protocol), extending performance beyond the 1Gb connectivity available today. UltraFlex™ Modular I/O on the CX4 arrays allows customers to easily add additional ports when needed. Since the arrays are dual-mode, supporting 8Gbit and 4Gb Fibre Channel and 10Gb and 1Gb iSCSI ports, customers can choose the interconnect that best suits their needs. Adding 10Gb iSCSI enables customers to affordably consolidate stranded servers onto an existing SAN, support more virtual servers and aggregate multiple 1Gb iSCSI connections to fewer 10Gb ones.
• Virtualization-aware Navisphere® management software simplifies storage in virtual environments with automation that has the potential to reduce reporting from hours to minutes. Navisphere enhancements for virtualized environments provides automatic discovery of virtual machines and VMWare ESX servers, end-to-end virtual-to-physical machine mapping, and advanced search for instant virtual machine recovery.
• Drive spin down has been added as a standard feature of the CX4 series arrays, further enhancing the ability of the CX4 to help reduce power and cooling requirements for your storage that started with the introduction of features such as low power SATA and flash drives, virtual provisioning and variable speed fans. Drive spin down enables customers easily set policies for drives to power down when not in use.

I tillegg vil vi også åpne for nye nettverksmuligheter i våre bladservere i løpet av den nærmeste tiden. Her er noe av det som vil bli tilgjengelig:

• Dell’s High Port Count Gigabit Ethernet Solution featuring PowerConnect M6348 48-port Gigabit Ethernet Blade Switch is the blade industry’s highest port count single switch I/O module. Combined with current four port integrated network interface cards (NIC) available on PowerEdge M710, M805, M905 full-height blade servers and new Dell blade server quad port network interface mezzanine cards from Broadcom and Intel, customers can get more lanes of gigabit Ethernet ideal for today’s virtual server environments. New quad port blade mezzanine cards include: o Broadcom NetExtreme II™ 5709 Quad Port Mezzanine o Intel Gigabit ET Quad Port Ethernet Mezzanine Card
• 10GbE server blade enhancements include the Dell 10GbE Pass-Through Blade I/O Module which directly connects blade servers using the Dell dual port 10Gb blade mezzanine NICs to external 10Gb resources such as servers or switches. This provides scalable connectivity of a few - to many - blade servers and uses Broadcom’s dual port 10Gb mezzanine card, the new Broadcom NetExtreme II™ 57711 Dual Port 10GbE Mezzanine Card, or future converged network adapters.

Inge Hjelmfoss
Enterprise Brand Manager