Certeon’s aCelera Virtual Appliance is software that runs within a virtual machine infrastructure such as VMware Infrastructure or Microsoft Hyper-V and reduces the response time to applications over the WAN by more than 95%.
aCelera software can run on any x86 architecture server which supports VMware Infrastructure operating system software.
VMware ESX and ESXi 3.x
The hardware required will be dependent on your application workload. On average you would require the following:
Yes, Certeon’s aCelera Virtual Appliance Software can be purchased pre-loaded on Dell PowerEdge systems running VMware ESXi. Certeon offers three configurations: A2000, A4000, A6000 depending on the size of the organization that is being supported. Contact a Certeon Sales Director for system specifications and pricing.
Yes, systems configured with aCelera Virtual Appliance software and the S-Series appliances will interoperate within an enterprise's network. For more information, contact a Certeon Sales Director at 877-221-6688, ext. 2.
The S-Series physical appliances are for environments that have NOT deployed a virtual machine operating system to support virtualized applications. aCelera Virtual Appliance software is for those environments that have deployed a virtual machine operating system to support virtualized applications. Both aCelera and the S-Series interoperate to support application acceleration in mixed virtualize and non-virturalized application environments within a distributed enterprise. For more information, contact a Certeon Sales Director at 877-221-6688, ext. 2.
Yes. It does. The only exception is that you cannot add an encryption card to the aCelera physical appliance, but full software encryption is supported.
Yes, aCelera does use all of the Certeon Application Acceleration Blueprints. Certeon has Application Blueprints for numerous applications including: Microsoft Office, SharePoint, SMS, EMC Documentum and eRoom, VMware Infrastructure 3, UGS Solid Edge, and others.
Yes, aCelera software can be accessed from the Certeon Support Website for download, but you must be registered with a user login and password. Please go to aCelera Evaluation Software page to register for aCelera evaluation software.
aCelera software is loadable onto VMware ESX 3.x and 3i systems. A license key from Certeon will be required and can be obtained from Support. aCelera can be then set-up as a virtual machine (VM) using WMware Virtual Center.
An application IT owner can set up aCelera on his/her own as long as they know how to assign IP addresses.
Yes.
Not at this time.
Yes, using CIFS-based disaster recovery and backup.
Yes, aCelera can take advantage of the failover and disaster recovery available in VMotion and VMware-HA.
In the last quarter of CY2008 there will be an aCelera product for Microsoft Hyper-V.
No.
Yes, a fail-to-wire adapter can be purchased for aCelera as an option.