Product category: Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Avocent | Subject: Virtual Presence Infrastructure
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 2 March 2005
Building blocks embed server management
Avocent Corp has developed a novel building block architecture aimed at harnessing the power of embedded technologies and specifications for remote server management
Virtual Presence Infrastructure (VPI) brings together the embedded worlds of Out-of-Band (OOB), IPMI, KVM and other active management technologies into a cohesive manageability platform. Vendors can enjoy the benefits of selecting specific building blocks or the entire VPI suite based on their unique design requirements.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 March 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Avocent delivers VPI through an aggregation of KVM on silicon, IPMI firmware and management gateways.
Available worldwide, customers that have licensed Avocent VPI building blocks include Dell, IBM and Intel.
Pricing varies by configuration.
Additional products will be released during 2005.
Server administrators need to be everywhere, all of the time.
Vendors are meeting that challenge with remote management technologies that offer 'virtual presence' at the rack.
However, there is a need to tightly integrate the external appliance world with the embedded world.
This is the strength of VPI.
VPI is delivered as system independent and agentless remote management services that offer hardware-level health monitoring and access control.
Implemented as an autonomous, systems monitoring/control interface, it is both tamper resistant and crash proof.
It also supports the entire system lifecycle - pre-OS, boot, OS loading, OS running, OS unresponsive - offering both text and graphical console access.
New levels of interoperability are achieved by supporting IPMI 2.0, Virtual Media and the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) CIM (Common Information Model) and SMASH (Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware) initiatives.
'Management represents one of the last truly differentiating product features for many hardware vendors', said Dave Perry, Avocent's Executive Vice President of Global OEM Markets.
'A single building block solution like VPI will provide our customers with quicker time to market and greater flexibility when designing their remote management solutions'.
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