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Virtual iron: A Comprehensive Virtualization Solution
Virtual iron has developed the first commercial alternative to VMware, for Windows and Linux virtualisation. Based on an open source hypervisor, the company's platform delivers advanced capabilities that leverage industry standards and processors with built-in hardware-assisted virtualisation at a fraction of the cost of VMware.
Virtual iron enables server partitioning for single and multi-server configuration, no downtime virtual server migration (LiveMigrate™), advanced management capabilities for rapid provisioning, high availability and disaster recovery (LiveRecovery™) and capacity management (LiveCapacity™). With these advanced capabilities, users can:
- Virtualize enterprise-class workloads running on unmodified Windows and Linux operating systems.
- Improve the utilization of current systems and reduce power, space and cooling issues through server consolidation.
- Quickly set up development, test and production environments.
- Recover from failures quickly, reliably and cost-efficiently.
- Match resource capacity to workload demands automatically.
- Reduce human labor and errors via policy-based automation.
The Virtual iron platform consists of three components:
1. Virtual iron Virtualization Manager provides a central place to control and automate virtual resources. It streamlines tasks that are normally highly manual and time-intensive and significantly reduce data center costs and complexity.
2. Virtual iron Virtualization Services are deployed automatically on bare-metal, industry-standard servers without requiring software installation or management. These features streamline data center management and reduce operational costs.
3. Open Source Virtualization, based on an open source hypervisor derived from 
the open source community project, is the first software loaded when
the physical server boots. The hypervisor manages all hardware resources
and leverages the hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities built into Intel and AMD processors to create an abstraction layer between physical hardware and virtual resources.
What makes Virtual iron different?
Why Virtual iron from OSS? - Open Storage Solutions is a "Virtual iron Channel-One" partner and is uniquely positioned to provide comprehensive advise on your virtualisation initiatives.
- As an Intel Premium Provider we understand just what is required in a server for a successful virtualisation deployment.
- As an EqualLogic partner we can provide the ideal storage match for your deployment. Virtual iron has certified the EqualLogic PS series storage arrays for use with Virtual iron virtualisation software. Read the Press Release.
- Open Storage Solution can provide advise on how best to take advantage of the significant benefits of advanced virtualisation and the implementation services to make it happen.