Dynamically Scale to Petabytes of Multi-Virtualized Disk I/O
SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel & Solid-State Disks
Flexibility: VIA gives you absolute granular and modular control over your storage, network and server infrastructure by allowing
you to provision custom VSAN, VNAS and VBlade infrastructure for your particular need. You can choose the processing power,
memory, type of network I/O (10 gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, FCoE and Infiniband) and hard drives (SATA, SAS, Fibre
Channel and Solid- State Disks). All these can be scaled to a multi-terabyte level on demand, on-site. VIA is designed for next-
generation virtualization needs with the unique ability to converge storage, network and server infrastructure onto one powerful
and scalable platform.
Virtual Massive Provisioning is also provided for the VSAN and VNAS in place of traditional auto-provisioning, as sometimes seen
in physical SAN and NAS appliances. Massive Provisioning allows you to provision up to 1 petabyte of virtual storage per VSAN
or VNAS appliance, even if less than 1 terabyte is actually present. Virtual networking within the VIA eliminates the need for
expensive switches, routers and cables by allowing the VBlades, VSAN and VNAS to communicate internally, as well as access any
heterogeneous, physical infrastructure.
Storage Management: With Storage Management, you can manage VSAN and VNAS infrastructure, as well as any
physical, heterogeneous SAN and NAS infrastructure.
Fault Tolerance: The complete VSAN, VNAS and VBlade infrastructure can be made fault tolerant by allowing no single point of
failure. Multi-site synchronous and asynchronous fail-over and disaster recovery facilities are provided, along with advanced snapshot
features. Instead of having to individually replicate each physical SAN, NAS or blade server appliances,VIA allows you
to replicate the entire VSAN, VNAS and VBlade infrastructure onto one single remote VIA. This simplifies the entire process of
fail-over and disaster recovery, and allows for tremendous savings of real estate, power, bandwidth requirements and of course, cost.
Stability: VIA is built on Microsoft Hyper-V and AMD multi-cores with proprietary and partner-enhanced software.