3Leaf Systems Intros New Version of I/O Virtualization Solution

3Leaf Systems announced the general availability of its V-8000 Virtual I/O Server 2.0. A key component of the company’s Virtual Compute Environment, the new version delivers disaster recovery, streamlined management, and enhanced availability for large x86 server deployments.

 

The company claims that the V-8000 version 2.0 software is the first I/O virtualization solution to run on standard off-the-shelf commodity x86 servers. B (News - Alert).V. Jagadeesh, CEO at  3Leaf Systems, said in a statement that the V-8000 Virtual I/O Server 2.0 empowers server and system administrators and enhances data center agility and availability.

 

Jagadeesh noted that with the new V-8000 version 2.0, 3Leaf provides simplified management and cost effective disaster recovery for commodity x86 servers, significantly reducing data center expenses.

 

According to Arun Taneja, founder and analyst at Taneja Group, I/O virtualization is a crucial step towards the next generation data center, and 3Leaf is leading the charge in this area with a software solution that runs on commodity hardware.

 

Taneja said that this fact alone makes the solution highly appealing to the data center buyers because it gives IT more control over costs and allows for easier integration into their infrastructures. He added that with V-8000 version 2.0 the IT administrator will find simplified management and added provisioning agility another reason to explore the merits of this solution.

3Leaf V-8000 Version 2.0 boasts several features and benefits such as greatly simplified management and provisioning of large-scale server deployments; disaster recovery solution that can automate service recovery of production server farms and sites to a consolidated recovery site; boosted operational agility; improved availability and resiliency; ease of solution deployment and investment protection; and servers with a
backbone I/O fabric of up to 40Gb/s.

By using 3Leaf V-8000 version 2.0, server and system administrators can help eliminate interruption and improve business continuity. The solution helps the separation of work between infrastructure administrators, who set up physical infrastructures, and application administrators who freely define and deploy server profiles that use this infrastructure. 3Leaf Systems point out that now enterprise server capabilities that have traditionally required expert setup are available out of the box even for novice users.

3Leaf Systems recently performed interoperability testing of the 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server with the HP BladeSystem c-Class and an HP StorageWorks 8100 Enterprise Virtual Array running VMware ESX. The company believes that this achievement marks a key milestone in the company’s strategy and commitment to delivering greater data center resource utilization and reduced costs through virtualization solutions for the x86 server market.