VMware Shared Storage

Automatically optimize performance, increase capacity utilization, and seamlessly integrate into VMware environments.

Descriptive Information

Solution Overview: Storage Resource Management in VMware and Virtual Provisioning Environments
TechBook: Using EMC CLARiiON Storage with VMware vSphere and VMware Infrastructure
TechBook: Using EMC Symmetrix Storage in VMware Infrastructure and vSphere Environments
Technical Documentation: Proven Solutions Guide: EMC Integrated Infrastructure for VMware Enabled by EMC Celerra NS-120
Video: EMC Integrates, Extends, and Accelerates VMware Environments

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EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Microsoft Applications - Data Center Solution Enabled by EMC Symmetrix V-Max - VMware vSphere 4 Applied Technology

EMC VMware Shared Storage solutions enable you to seamlessly integrate, manage, and optimize storage in VMware environments. Our shared storage platforms enable you to leverage multiple protocols to meet your VMware use case and configuration requirements—small, medium, and large. Get full support for all the connection protocols you may need including iSCSI, Fiber Channel, network-attached (NFS), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).

Gain maximum capacity and the highest performance automatically for your mission-critical applications through EMC storage systems that enable the secure, resilient, cost-effective consolidation of your applications and data.

Key Benefits

Automation — Automatically optimize performance while reducing the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) for storage in VMware environments.
High availability — Gain highly available, scalable, and efficient storage, tailored for virtualized environments.
Reduced cost — Evaluate overall IT operations, policies, and procedures to cut down on your costs.
Greater efficiency — Deliver cost savings and tiered storage to improve efficiency across your organization.
Storage utilization — Increase storage capacity utilization, improve ease of use, and enhance performance for applications and workloads.

EMC will help you build your solution with the following products, services, and partners:

Celerra Replicator - Create point-in-time network-attached storage (NAS) file system copies and consistent Internet SCSI (iSCSI) logical unit number (LUN) copies on a local or remote site.
CLARiiON AX4 - Move from server-based storage to consolidated storage to handle more data, more efficiently.
CLARiiON CX4 Model 120 - Gain entry-level networked storage for departmental applications and midsize organizations.
EMC Celerra NX4 - EMC Celerra NX4 is an easy to use, entry-level, unified storage system that provides cost-effective storage and server consolidation for your information infrastructure. Go from power-up to production in as few as 15 minutes.
RecoverPoint - Get cost-effective, continuous data protection and continuous remote replication to enable on-demand protection and recovery to any point in time.
Symmetrix DMX-4 - Manage and protect all of your data and keep it available at all times.
Symmetrix VMAX - Consolidate more workloads with a smaller footprint with the world’s most powerful networked storage system.

Data Center Consolidation and Migration Consulting - Find out how EMC Consulting helps you to streamline your data centers to realize cost, energy, and service delivery benefits.
Strategy and Transformation - EMC Consulting Strategy & Transformation can help you transform your infrastructure strategy into an action plan.

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