Virtual Iron virtualizes all data center resources to create Virtual Infrastructure. The components described in the chart below provide the foundation to create virtual servers. A virtual server consists of 32 or 64-bit CPUs, memory, disks, network adapters, fibre channel adapters, keyboard, video, and mouse. A virtual server can run standard Linux and Windows operating systems and applications.
| Physical Resource | Virtual Infrastructure |
| Industry standard Intel and AMD servers upon which the virtualization layer is automatically deployed | A Virtualized Node consists of a collection of CPUs and RAM that can be allocated to a virtual server |
| Each server can have multiple gigabit Ethernet cards (NICs) to provide required throughput and availability | Virtual servers connect through virtual NICs to physical or virtual networks |
| iSCSI, SAN and NAS storage technologies are used for reliable persistent storage | A collection of storage resources can be partitioned and allocated to virtual servers using raw mappings or virtual hard disks |
