IronPOD Series DatasheetIronPOD System 400 Series Overview

IRON Networks converged system products simplify Microsoft infrastructure deployments by integrating hardware, software and services into turnkey solutions. The IronPOD System 400 combines optimized network, server and storage hardware,and the comprehensive Microsoft software defined datacenter (SDDC) software suite integrated into an optimized turnkey configuration. This creates a complete solution that is simple to acquire and deploy.

IronPOD™ System 400 platforms is available as single or modular rack configurations, optimized for scalable cloud deployments. Built-in redundancy provides highly available and resilient operations that support enterprise workloads running thousands of virtual machines that are highly optimized for workhorse applications like Microsoft SQL, SharePoint and Exchange.

Core Microsoft technology powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 for best results

Microsoft NVGRE Network Virtualization, Microsoft Hyper-V Server Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Storage Server Virtualization and System Center 2012 SP1 technologies are optimized for application delivery in virtualized, cloud and dedicated environments to:

• Accelerate IT, enhance time to application value.
• Optimize IT, for faster application delivery and better business results.
• Standardize IT, Eliminate islands of incompatible infrastructures.

Better Together: IRON hardware, Microsoft Windows Server platforms & Microsoft workloads

IRON offers enterprise and service provider class system designs that are reliable and energy-efficient, coupled with simplified serviceability and deployment services. Our solution with power efficient design, high density configurations and leading-edge software to manage the modern data center, help organizations manage the modern data center and benefit from virtualization and cloud computing-faster and easier.

IRON platforms integrate Microsoft core windows technologies to deliver a systematic approach to optimize application performance and standardize IT operations across the data center with a common architecture and management model. Key benefits include:

• Optimized and lower cost of hardware design, and
• Reduced dependence on redundant infrastructure investment.
• Reduced CAPEX and timelines to implement new capacity
• Reduced OPEX through improved PUE and higher utilization.

Single SKU infrastructure delivery model

Pre-Configured, pre-integrated infrastructure to achieve better business results:

• Integration by design: deeply integrated compute, storage, and networking resources so you can deploy in hours instead of days.
• Built-in expertise: automated management and deployment expertise for physical and virtual resources so your experts can focus on innovation.
• Simplified experience: optimized configurations to accelerate purchase deployment and time to value for your solution.

IRON Services can accelerate your virtualization solutions

Installation and Support Services are included. Our highly experienced and expertly trained sales professionals and partners deliver a converged infrastructure precisely the way you need it. IRON also offers a variety of services and tools to help our customers get started with confidence and their own pace:

• Microsoft Powered converged infrastructure reference design guide offers detailed configurations, best practice and lessor learned. These offering includes solution block for messaging, collaboration, virtualization and cloud computing.
• IRON Converged Infrastructure Services can help you design, finance, implement, and support a converged infrastructure. These services include a visioning workshop, planning services, design and implementation service and proof of concepts.
• Efficient Architecture Cloud Workshop allows you to spend a day with an experienced converged infrastructure expert to help learn fundamental converged infrastructure and cloud computing topics with best practices using Microsoft System Center with Hyper-V and network virtualization, Microsoft Storage Server and Mellanox network fabric.
• Open Integration and Open Standards building blocks allows IRON to provide the most complete, simplest, and fastest way to deploy the right solution or solutions to meet your varying requirements-all built to industry standards. This gives you the ability to change components in and out as you like. You're not locked in. This is a very important part of our architecture. It's not about lock-in. It's about building to industry standards and giving our customers choice so they can accelerate IT to deliver better business value.
• Onsite installation and implementation is included with every IronPOD 400 deployment, complete with an orientation training session and configuration support. Iron support provides the foundation for secure and reliable high-availability infrastructures with enhanced hardware support and software technical support for problem resolution.

The IronPOD Infrastructure family of solutions demonstrates how open and flexible architectures powered by core Microsoft Windows technologies combined with IRON Services create practical, innovative solutions designed to reduce complexity and costs while improving productivity. IRON Services can help deliver elastic IT, whether you are building a platform for private cloud computing or for better availability and management of applications.