In order to meet the increasing need for virtualisation, EfficientIP has created a suite of IPAM - DNS - DHCP virtual appliances that combines the benefits of virtualisation with the performance of EfficientIP hardware appliances. As a VMware® technology partner, EfficientIP's virtual appliances are fully compatible and run seamlessly on VMWare® virtual machines.

Virtualisation helps you optimize CPU utilization, save costs related to hardware and maintenance, quickly and easily deploy your resources and ensure services high availability. However, it also makes your network infrastructure more complex to manage and that is why EfficientIP went further and developped solutions for IP - DNS - DHCP services management in virtual as well as physical environments. 

Unified Management of IPAM - DNS - DHCP architectures

EfficientIP's solution, SOLIDserver™, ensures a dynamic and integrated management of IPAM with DNS and DHCP services in a single process, ensuring the highest level of quality and efficiency. The tasks of network administrators are therefore dramatically reduced and simplified.

For instance, it is possible to create a /24 subnet, in one operation, with IP ranges allocated to DHCP service. All configurations will be carried out automatically by SOLIDserver™ and will configure DNS and DHCP services according to specified options. 

Multi-Vendor DNS-DHCP services Management

SOLIDserver™ is fully compatible with Microsoft®, Cisco®, Nominum® and opensource virtual technologies, and can manage mixed architectures. SOLIDserver™ unifies the management of multi-vendors DNS and DHCP servers on a single IPAM solution to simplify service deployment, increase quality and cut operating costs.

SmartArchitecture™: Manage DNS-DHCP Services at the Architecture Level

SmartArchitecture™ simplifies the deployment and the management of your DNS-DHCP services by managing not only your servers but the entire service architecture. Any SOLIDserver™ part of a given SmartArchitecture™ will be automatically configured as well as various servers from other vendors, to establish a communication path among all of them securing communication flow and synchronizing data. SmartArchitecture™ manages physical, virtual and mixed infrastructures.

IPLocator™ for virtualized environment

In physical environments, IT administrators sometimes find it difficult to determine exactly how their resources are spread in their network: which switch is connected to which port, which ports are free and reusable. It is all the more difficult in virtualized environment as administrators cannot check the physical wires.
IPLocator™ is a network discovery tool that offers industry-leading network reconciliation capabilities. IPLocator™ identifies and archives any changes in IP or MAC address location on the network. It brings a global view of the company’s stations’ mobility by address offset -switch, slot, port and VLAN offset of an IP and or a MAC address. The displayed, archived information shows when, where and who was connected and remains connected so that IP and MAC mobility can be tracked easily.
For each IP and MAC address that is discovered, IPLocator™ will identify the following key information: switch name, switch slot, switch port, switch description, switch OS version, VLAN number, switch status, port speed, link status, first seen and last seen.
Discoveries made by IPLocator™ can launch alerts when an unknown device is detected on the network. Thanks to discovery results it becomes easy to locate and remove an infected station in order to provide an optimum reaction to security alerts.

EfficientIP suite of virtual appliances

The SOLIDserver™ virtual appliances suite meets the needs of small branch offices right up to the largest companies.
To fulfill each customer’s specific needs, EfficientiP’s virtual appliances suite includes 5 models with different levels of performance for IPAM and DNS – DHCP services.

Appliance Model	DNS performance (Queries per second) DHCP performance (Requests per second)	Type of company (Recommended)
SOLIDserver™ 250	7,000 qps 125 rps	SOLIDserver™ 250 is designed for deployment in small enterprise or branch office.
SOLIDserver™ 500	25,000 qps 500 rps	SOLIDserver™ 500 is designed for deployment in small to medium enterprises.
SOLIDserver™ 1000	50,000 qps 1,000 rps	SOLIDserver™ 1000 is designed for deployment in medium-sized enterprises.
SOLIDserver™ 2000	75,000 qps 1,500 rps	SOLIDserver™ 2000 is designed for deployment in medium to large sized enterprises.
SOLIDserver™ 3000	125,000 qps 2,500 rps	SOLIDserver™ 3000 is designed for deployment in large enterprises, Data Centers and service provider environments.