Virtual Iron Reduces Power Consumption

August 13, 2008: Virtual Iron is promising to cut power use significantly with the latest release of its server virtualisation platform, which makes use of new LivePower automatic infrastructure management.

The company says that LivePower automatically optimises power usage, delivering significant cost-savings and environmental benefits across the data centre.

Available with Virtual Iron Version 4.4, the feature monitors resource utilisation in virtual data centre and consolidates virtual machines when there is excess CPU capacity.

When the virtual machine load increases beyond certain thresholds, LivePower turns physical servers back on and live migrates virtual machines to rebalance the virtual data centre and ensure that resource requirements and service levels are met.

This results in fewer physical servers running (based on pre-defined policies), with servers only powered up as needed.

“Virtual Iron is one of only two vendors in the market that provides a true server virtualisation solution with the capabilities of our virtual infrastructure management platform,” said Tony Asaro, Chief Strategy Officer of Virtual Iron. “Today, we have thousands of customer deployments supporting a wide range of applications. LivePower is another important capability that exemplifies the depth and value of the Virtual Iron solution.”

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