EMC to develop greater integration between storage and VMware | | 2008-09-16 | | | EMC has announced its participation in VMware’s vStorage program.vStorage is a set of technologies enabling storage vendors to integrate their products with VMware platforms."Customers are demanding more efficient and flexible management of their virtual datacenters," said EMC’s Mike O’Neill, Vice President, Technology Alliances. "To make sure we address these customer challenges, EMC is working with VMware on the elements of the vStorage program. Through this program, EMC will continue to deliver more storage products that are directly integrated with VMware Infrastructure, VMware VirtualCenter, and the VMware vStorage framework."EMC is participating in the following VMware vStorage programs:vStorage APIs for Multipathing - allows third party multipathing compatible with VMware Infrastructure via EMC’s PowerPath family, greatly increasing performance on VMware servers and optimizing network connectivity. This will be available with the next relese VMware Infrastructure virtualization platform.vStorage APIs - EMC integrates with VirtualCenter and array-based snapshots on VMFS volumes with EMC Replication Manager providing virtual-machine consistent backups for datastores and the ability to restore virtual machines instantly. The vStorage APIs provide the framework for further VirtualCenter integration. EMC platforms will support advanced offload mechanisms through vStorage APIs to accelerate common VMware tasks.EMC supports virtual provisioning across its range of storage devices and is working with the vStorage APIs so that provisioning and utilization information for EMC storage is directly accessible within the VirtualCenter interface.VMware Ready Storage Virtual Appliances - EMC has been delivering a Virtual Storage Appliance in the EMC Avamar Virtual Edition as well as the EMC Celerra Simulator Virtual Machine (VM). Avamar Virtual Edition’s patented global, source-based data deduplication technology enables customers to reduce the size of backup data within and across virtual machines prior to storage. The Celerra VM presents iSCSI and NFS and CFS storage, advanced local writeable snapshots and remote replication. Like a traditional Celerra, Celerra VM works with VMware Site Recovery Manager, and itself can be can be used to host NFS and iSCSI storage resources for a virtual infrastructure. The Celerra VM provides an ideal environment in which to learn and experiment with advanced VMware capabilities that depend on shared storage. | |
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