Liqid announced its disaggregated
composable infrastructure solutions are now optimized to meet the unique
demands of VMware vSAN and VDI installations. With on-demand,
bare-metal resource orchestration and automation, virtualized
environments are freed from the physical limitations of the underlying
hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) hardware on which they are deployed.
Bare-metal servers can be created through software to effectively treat
bare metal hardware as disaggregated resource pools, breaking with the
one-to-one model that tethers virtualization licensing to physical CPUs.
Disaggregated accelerator technologies like GPU, FPGA, and Intel
Optane memory can now be added on demand and utilized as shared
resources in quantities that best correspond with a given virtualized
compute task. Hypervisors such as vSAN can orchestrate resource
allocation via Liqid APIs, extending the life of existing hardware and
allowing IT organizations to grow infrastructure as required.
"Because
hyperconverged systems are sold based on static hardware bundled at the
point of purchase, IT users are forced to add resources they do not
need in order to grow vSAN and other virtualized implementations,
leaving hardware underutilized in some instances, overtaxed in others,"
said Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., Executive Director Research & Technology
Fellow, Cloud & Data Center Research Practice, IHS Markit. "With
composable infrastructure for vSAN and other hyperconverged
environments, hardware can be right-sized for the job, then released for
use by other virtual machines when complete, delivering the ultimate in
software-defined infrastructure at all levels of compute activity, down
to the bare metal."
Disaggregated Composability Completes the Mission of Virtualization
Hyperconverged
data center architectures can no longer scale to keep pace with the
uneven demands of virtualized compute environments. With limited ability
to disaggregate data center resources, traditional hyperconverged
systems can quickly become uneven, with some resources sitting idle
while others are taxed to their limits.
To
address these challenges, Liqid delivers composable, software-defined
infrastructure solutions and services that automate, orchestrate and
compose resources at the bare-metal level, optimizing hardware
deployments for virtual environments. IT users can significantly
increase data agility, capacity, and bandwidth, leveraging pools of
disaggregated GPU, FPGAs, CPUs, NVMe SSD, and Intel Optane memory
extension technologies to create balanced systems that can adapt
on-demand or through automation and policy based management. The ability
to create multiple bare-metal servers on demand through composability
reduces the number of software licenses required for virtualized
deployments.
"The
problem with hyperconverged environments has always been just that:
convergence. By decoupling hardware purchasing cycles with the
requirements of hypervisors such as vSAN, virtual machines can be
matched through software with bare metal servers that address the needs
of specific applications, then released for use by others when not in
use," said Sumit Puri, CEO and Cofounder, Liqid. "Systems stay balanced,
licensing costs can be reassessed, and IT users can prepare for
emerging, high value applications, with disaggregation eliminating the
need to purchase equipment until it is required."