corporation website www.virtualiron.com virtual iron software was located in lowell massachusetts sold proprietary software for virtualization and management of a virtual infrastructure . co founded by alex vasilevsky 1 virtual iron figured among the first companies to offer virtualization software to fully support intel vt x and amd v hardware assisted virtualization . 2 as of may 2009 update oracle corporation agreed to acquire virtual iron software inc. subject to customary closing conditions . oracle now declines to offer any updates or patches for current customers even updates and patches developed before the purchase . 3 on june 19 2009 the register reported that oracle had killed the virtual iron product . 4 it is expected by whom that virtual iron code products will merge other xen based virtualization technology owned by oracle to be owned by oracle such as oracle vm and sun xvm product suite . contents 1 the virtual iron platform 2 native virtualization 3 see also 4 references 5 external links the virtual iron platform edit virtual iron software ran unmodified 32 bit and 64 bit guest operating systems with near native performance citation needed . a virtualization manager offered access to control automate modify and monitor virtual resources . virtualization services were automatically deployed on supported hardware without additional software . the platform was based on the open source xen hypervisor . 5 virtual iron like other virtualization software provided server consolidation business continuity and capacity management . 6 the virtual iron platform consisted of a virtualization manager virtualization servers and a hypervisor . the virtualization manager vi center a java based application allowed for central management of the virtualized servers . a physical server could have many virtualized servers which ran as unmodified guest operating systems . virtual iron could use both physical storage or virtual storage access models . however the use of a virtual storage access model leveraged san storage to create a fault tolerant iscsi or fibre channel based cluster of virtual nodes . the vi center installed on both windows and linux . after installation the administrator had to configure a management network for the purpose of communicating with nodes in the cluster . the vi center used the management network to pxe boot any server that was connected and correctly configured for pxe boot . the included liverecovery tool could configure high availability . additionally cpu or power consumption load balancing was configurable using the livecapacity or livepower tools respectively . additional features included disk and virtual machine cloning snapshots ipmi ilo support etc. native virtualization edit virtual iron had implemented full virtualization requiring hardware assisted virtualization which it called native virtualization over paravirtualization . native virtualization allowed for unmodified guest operating systems and had the advantage of hardware advances for better performance . virtual iron inc claimed to have pioneered the implementation of native virtualization . 7 virtual iron discussed paravirtualization and native virtualization in its blog virtual iron has decided against paravirtualization in favor of native virtualization . with hardware advances coming out of intel and amd we see native virtualization capable of matching physical hardware performance without any of the complexity and engineering efforts involved in paravirtualizing an os . from our discussions with a broad range of users they simply do not want to roll out modified oss unless the trade off is heavily in their favor . this faustian trade off is no longer necessary . 8 see also edit comparison of platform virtualization software virtual machine platform virtualization x86 virtualization references edit http www.bizjournals.com boston blog mass high tech 2010 08 virtual computer co founder cto vasilevsky.html page all burt jeffrey march 1 2006 . virtual iron to support intel virtualization tech . eweek.com . retrieved 2007 01 16 . oracle buys virtual iron . oracle.com . may 13 2009 . retrieved 2009 05 13 . oracle kills virtual iron ware . theregister.co.uk . june 19 2009 . retrieved 2009 06 21 . xen startup virtual iron breaks ranks on paravirtualization . search server virtualization . september 21 2006 . retrieved 2007 04 03 . hernandez pedro december 11 2006 . luring virtual workloads to virtual iron . enterpriseitplanet.com . retrieved 2007 01 16 . mackinnon chris a. june 9 2006 . the virtually run data center run any application anywhere anytime . processor . 28 23 31 . retrieved 2007 01 16 . paravirtualization is a dead end approach . virtualiron.com . july 7 2006 . retrieved 2007 01 16 . external links edit virtual iron home page virtual iron virtualization news and support and training resources v t e virtualization software comparison of platform virtualization software hardware virtualization 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