EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN Qualified for VMware Infrastructure 3 Environments.VMware and EqualLogic Complete Interoperability Testing of EqualLogic PS Series with Industry's Flagship Virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. Solution from VMware NASHUA, N.H. -- EqualLogic[R], a leading provider of enterprise-class iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions, today announced that EqualLogic's PS Series storage has been qualified with VMware Infrastructure 3. Based on the completion of interoperability testing, EqualLogic PS Series will now be included in the Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide for VMware ESX Server VMware ESX Server is an enterprise-level virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc., a division of EMC Corporation. ESX Server is a component of VMware's larger offering, Virtual Infrastructure, which adds management and reliability services to the core server product. 3, now part of VMware Infrastructure 3, as a supported storage platform. This compatibility is designed to provide customers with an integrated and jointly supported environment when deploying VMware Infrastructure with EqualLogic SANs. By deploying EqualLogic SANs with VMware Infrastructure 3, IT managers are leveraging a simple, flexible and cost-effective virtual storage solution that can adapt to changing business requirements. EqualLogic's PS Series SAN enables simple storage consolidation, which allows a virtual infrastructure to increase storage utilization, enrich corporate data protection methods, facilitate disaster recovery and enhance virtualized server availability and workload migration. In addition, EqualLogic's fully redundant infrastructure provides an easy-to-use and disaster-tolerant SAN solution for VMware Infrastructure 3. "Our customers' VMware enterprise deployments require true enterprise-class data protection, with fully redundant infrastructures and remote-site disaster recovery capabilities - the PS Series' built-in storage management capabilities meet these customer needs out-of-the-box," said John Joseph, vice president of marketing at EqualLogic. "With the fantastic growth rates Growth Rates The compounded annualized rate of growth of a company's revenues, earnings, dividends, or other figures. Notes: Remember, historically high growth rates don't always mean a high rate of growth looking into the future. that iSCSI SANs and infrastructure virtualization technologies See VT. See also virtualization. are experiencing, our partnership with VMware is a factor in driving widespread adoption of EqualLogic's storage arrays." "Combining the EqualLogic PS Series and VMware ESX Server 3 is a great example of the power and efficiency of deploying iSCSI SANs with VMware Infrastructure 3. Such combinations enable customers to optimize their computing and storage infrastructures. They also deliver the dynamic data center capabilities of VMware Infrastructure 3," said Parag Patel, senior director of storage ecosystem alliances at VMware. "VMware Infrastructure 3's native support of iSCSI demonstrates VMware's commitment to working with EqualLogic and the iSCSI ecosystem for our customers' benefit." Additionally, companies worldwide are adopting VMware Infrastructure 3 and EqualLogic PS Series virtualized SANs as iSCSI becomes increasingly popular for networked storage. The IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems 2006-2010 Forecast and Analysis report published in May projected that the iSCSI SAN market will continue to be the fastest-growing segment of the storage industry through 2010. Companies that are jointly deploying VMware Infrastructure 3 and EqualLogic storage platforms into production include: * Arch Coal Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI) is a United States coal mining and processing company. The company mines, processes, and markets bituminous and sub-bituminous coal with low sulfur content in the United States. Arch Coal is the second largest supplier of coal in the U.S. , Inc. * Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Group, Inc. * Intermec Technologies Corp. * Kane County, Ill. * Mount Saint Mary College Mount Saint Mary College is a private, independent, coeducational, four-year liberal arts college, located in Newburgh, New York. Founded in 1960 by the Sisters of Saint Dominic, the college is committed to providing students of all faiths an education rich in the liberal * Pathfire * Steel and Pipe Supply Company * VSR VSR Very Short Reach (Ciena/Cisco design for high speed, 10Gbps data) VSR Variable Speed Reversible VSR Very Short Reach (optical interconnection; Sprint) VSR Volume Search Radar Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . "As the leading supplier of digital media distribution and asset management technology and services to the television news and entertainment industries, we require a highly reliable, enterprise-class storage and systems architecture to support our customers' mission-critical 24x7 media services," said Mike Stawchansky, senior systems administrator at Pathfire. "We've deployed EqualLogic storage and VMware Infrastructure 3 into our back office systems at our Roswell, Georgia Roswell is a city located in northern Fulton County, Georgia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 79,334. Census Estimates of 2005 show a population of 98,137. Residents of Roswell are referred to as Roswellians. facility, supporting our Digital Media Gateway Network, which is used to distribute digital video to broadcasters worldwide. Using EqualLogic and VMware together significantly reduced the complexity of our environment, allowing us to consolidate both servers and storage with an innovative solution that is not only cost effective and simple to manage but also delivers better performance than alternative products." The compatibility between the EqualLogic PS Series and VMware Infrastructure 3, as noted in the Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide for VMware ESX Server 3, includes iSCSI base connectivity, storage processor failover, boot from SAN, network interface card failover and host bus adapter See host adapter. failover. In addition, the PS Series is compatible with VMware Infrastructure 3's advanced features including VMware VMotion technology for eliminating downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. , VMware High Availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. to ensure uptime of virtual machines and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler for automated workload distribution. EqualLogic is a member of the VMware Technology Alliance Program. Membership in the program allows EqualLogic and VMware to jointly drive go-to-market efforts and technical solutions in support of our mutual customers. About EqualLogic EqualLogic([R]), Inc., is the leading provider of intelligent, enterprise-class iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions that enable businesses - from Fortune 100 to small and mid-size organizations in more than 30 countries worldwide - to realize the economic benefits of consolidated, self-managing storage. The EqualLogic PS Series of storage arrays, based on the company's patented peer storage architecture delivers operational simplicity, comprehensive data management services and high data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. in a single, scalable pool of storage. EqualLogic's headquarters are located in Nashua, New Hampshire Nashua is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA. As of the 2000 census, Nashua had a total population of 86,605[1], making it the second largest city in the state after Manchester. As of 2005, the population is estimated to be 87,986. . For more information, please visit http://www.equallogic.com. EqualLogic is a registered trademark of EqualLogic, Inc. Other marks belong to their respective owners. |
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