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Egenera's PAN for Dell

posted on 09 May 2008 14:08

Virtualise computing, storage and networking

Dell's PAN system is a turnkey system that virtualizes compute, storage and networking resources using Egenera's PAN Manager.

Dell provides the base hardware and software with Egenera providing the software to virtualize compute, storage and network resources. The Dell contribution is based on PowerEdge 1950 and 2950 servers and Dell/EMC storage; not Dell/EqualLogic storage. Citrix XenServer is added in and the whole thing factory-integrated by Dell.

The idea is to offer a single resource pool for physical and virtual servers, storage and networking - provided by Egenera's PAN Manager - with rapid server provisioning and redeployment in minutes, plus hardware availability and site recovery.

PAN Manager software enables users to create networks of virtual and physical servers, and move individual servers, groups of servers or entire systems from one place to another seamlessly, securely and with disaster recovery and high availability services.

PAN in this case stands for 'Processing Area Network' and doesn't mean Personal Area Network, a BlueTooth radio concept.

Dell says the resulting data centre simplification lowers costs.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}