Quoting from GridToday
EqualLogic announced increasing demand for its storage solution to support virtualized data center infrastructures. A growing number of companies from multiple industries worldwide are embracing EqualLogic storage and VMware server virtualization software together to create more responsive and easy-to-manage IT operations. Virtual data centers allow organizations to adapt fluidly to changing business demands, ensure business continuity and enhance organizational success.
"VMware's virtual infrastructure software and EqualLogic's virtualized SAN architecture are complementary technologies that deliver tremendous rewards. Because virtual servers require a simple, flexible and cost-effective virtual storage solution, our customers are choosing EqualLogic's enterprise-class iSCSI storage over traditional Fibre Channel systems," said John Joseph, vice president of marketing at EqualLogic. "EqualLogic storage arrays have proven to be the de facto iSCSI storage platform for VMware environments. The simple integration, flexibility and unmatched performance are driving more and more leading organizations worldwide to embrace our virtualized storage for the new data center."
EqualLogic's award-winning iSCSI SAN is a simple and cost-effective storage solution that provides the enterprise features, manageability and scalability required to handle the demanding storage needs of a VMware virtual infrastructure. By virtualizing storage within a SAN, EqualLogic significantly reduces complexity in VMware environments. Data volumes are automatically provisioned from a single, scalable pool of storage using a simple, intuitive interface. Even as workload demand shifts or migrates between virtual machines and their physical host servers, EqualLogic's virtualized SAN automatically applies storage resources where and when they are needed, without administrative intervention or manual tuning.
The combination of EqualLogic's PS Series SAN and VMware virtual infrastructure software delivers:
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
A virtual infrastructure applies fewer resources to more work, aggregates resources into a manageable utility and reduces assets to purchase and manage.
- Enhanced Resource Flexibility.
EqualLogic and VMware scale infrastructure without impacting operations, allow quick response without disruption to address evolving requirements (growth, performance and capacity) and simplify repurposing of older assets.
The virtual data center simplifies deployment, management and growth; minimizes application downtime due to infrastructure changes; accelerates application development cycles; and protects core IT assets for quick and easy disaster recovery.
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