AFORE Solutions has unveiled the purpose built networking product for extending virtualisation between geographically distributed data centres. Built upon the ASE3300 platform, the company’s new Virtual Fiber and Virtual Wire capabilities enable the migration of virtual machines and storage across IP and Ethernet wide area networks.
The company claimed that this technology allows enterprises and cloud computing/disaster recovery service providers to establish extended virtual data centres, creating new levels of availability and paving the way for advanced hosting and managed service offerings.
According to the company, ensuring virtual machine (VM) migration over a wide area network creates specific challenges. VM migration events require significant bandwidth and resources, with low latency and secure Layer 2 connectivity between hosts.
AFORE’s Virtual Fiber technology reportedly enables communications over IP and Metro Ethernet wide area networks, while Virtual Wire provides Layer 2 connectivity with end-to-end flow control and packet re-sizing to adapt data centre packet sizes to wide area packet network capabilities as required by FC, FCoE or Jumbo frame based applications. The product also provides time of day re-allocation of bandwidth, enabling connectivity between sites to be increased or decreased as required.
Jonathan Reeves, chairman and chief strategy officer of AFORE, said: Our Virtual Fiber and Virtual Wire technology provides a significant advancement for enterprises and cloud computing operators alike enabling data centers to be extended across great distances and bandwidth to be re-allocated on demand to meet changing application requirements.
