Virtualization

LiquidIQ™ virtualizes the hardware resources of a server. This has always been physically defined in metal and screws with traditional servers. Virtualized hardware resources can only be achieved with an Interconnect Driven Server such as LiquidIQ. Through simple software commands, system administrators can call on available compute, interconnect and I/0 resources to create virtual servers. These configurations can be stored, cloned or deleted based on the business needs.

LiquidIQ is first of its kind to deliver a "shared anywhere" virtualization solution. Server resources can be physically located anywhere across the system, since the underlying interconnect can deliver the required sustained performance under load. What does this mean? Imagine provisioning 20 I/O Modules through a software command. An application or code would have immediate access to 800 G/bs of I/O bandwidth for a large scale import, write or checkpoint.

Hardware driven Virtual Servers can be setup, extended and torn down through a software command. This opens the doors to time of day, policy driven resource allocation to codes and applications that should have priority access to computing, interconnect and I/O system resources.

LiquidIQ Virtual servers can be further partitioned with operating system virtualization software packages such as XEN and VMware. This combined hardware and software "shared anywhere" virtualization framework is the first of its kind on the market today.

LiquidIQ offers a comprehensive virtualization framework:

• Physical servers resources are defined in software with high performance interfaces
• All resources are shared and available inside and across chassis
• Virtual Servers can be defined within hierarchies for simplified management and policy assignment

Administrators can control and set guarantees for bandwidth between components. Service level guarantees can be as dynamic as needed, shifting bandwidth based upon time of day or upon any kind of policy that can be algorithmically expressed. Instead of relying on static networks that connect user requests, processors and storage devices, scalable computing users can deploy virtualized communications and computing resources through software commands. These are game changing capabilities that can fundamentally change the underlying operations with the data center today.