Voltaire Announces Switch Intended for Cloud Computing
Voltaire today announced a Gigabit Ethernet switch meant for enterprise data centers and cloud computing environments. The Vantage 8500 switch features 288 wire speed, 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a 15U high chassis. It has a scalability option that allows for more than 3,400 ports in a single switching fabric. The Vantage 8500 is based on converged enhanced Ethernet (CEE) technology to provide InfiniBand-like capabilities to the data center such as a lossless switching fabric, multi-pathing, virtualization, fabric-wide congestion management and QoS.
The increasing adoption of virtualization is driving the need for new data center network architectures that offer improved I/O bandwidth without adding extra tiers and oversubscription to the network. Voltaire's new switch is said to support industry standard servers, third-party switches, and leading management and virtualization solutions. It works with both 1 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions for easy integration with existing data centers and mixed environments.
According to Voltaire, the Vantage 8500 features less than 1 microsecond latency and 10 watts-per-port power consumption. The switch allows users to manage roaming virtual machine ports, assign them unique policies, monitor them as if they were physical ports, and form multiple virtual fabrics with unique behavior and resource assignment.
Voltaire's UFM (Unified Fabric Manager) software can manage multiple Vantage 8500 switches and attached third party virtual or physical edge switches to deliver central and consistent fabric policy and extensive monitoring up to the application layers.
The Voltaire Vantage 8500 is expected to be available in the second half of 2009 through Voltaire's OEM partners and global resellers.
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