In this Runt Packet we talk to Bob Napaa from Virtensys about their Virtual I/O solution for servers. What’s especially different is that their solution doesn’t use networking…..tune in for more details.

In the show we cover a lot of topics:

How Virtensys connects CPU and Memory to External Resources.

• Explain key benefits of PCI Bus extension.
• it’s a standards based technology
• it’s high performance

About the Physical Equipment

• PCI card into the PCI bus
• cables that connect to the top of rack Vietensys box
• Uses standard Ethernet and Fibrechannel adapters in the chassis

Management Platform

Virtensys also has a GUI management platform. which shows the status, configuration but also has a CLI for power users.

Links and Sites

You can check out http://virtensys.com/.

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