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VM Management using vSMP Foundation for VMs
vSMP Foundation for Virtual Machine Management
As the number of VMs installed per compute server continue to grow, there becomes a management problem with so many VMs to keep track of. In addition, if a VM needs to migrate to a different server, shared storage must be used and the application must pause.
By using a combination of ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation and a popular hypervisor such as KVM or XEN, more VMs can be installed, with less management troubles.
In addition, this new capability will allow you to create large resource pools -- up to 128 systems, each with 128 CPUs (cores or threads) and 64 TB of RAM -- and distribute those computing resources to all the VMs which are running. The biggest benefit to end users will be the far superior management capabilities. Instead of managing the multiple underlying systems individually you will be able to manage the infrastructure as a single resource pool. Unused or low usages VMs can be aggregated together to create even larger VMs, across hardware systems.
Features
- Use same cluster nodes.
- Highest CPU capacity: Enables up to 16,384 CPUs in a single shared-memory system.
- Largest memory footprint: Enables up to 64 TB RAM.
- Multiple provisioning systems:
- Bright Cluster Manager Suite;
- MOAB from Adaptive Computing;
- xCAT from IBM.
- ROCKS
- HP CMU
Benefits
- Simple management: Single OS instance across an entire cluster;
- No need for job schedulers, resource manager or cluster file-system.
- Scalable storage with seamless integration: Eliminates dedicated, costly cluster storage.
- Fast installation: Unboxing to production within 3 hours.
- Record-breaking performance: Provides InfiniBand performance with zero management and application portability costs.
- vSMP Foundation for VM Management is delivered on an easy-to-install USB memory stick or on Compact Flash devices.
vSMP Foundation for VMs is available as a network bootable image, compatible with most systems' PXE boot environment.
Contact us for more information: sales@scalemp.com
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