VMware

Isilon scale-out storage and VMware provide an enterprise infrastructure that's powerful, flexible and simple to manage.

Isilon scale-out storage provides a scalable, highly reliable, and easy to manage system for storing Virtual Machines (VMs)  hosted on VMware ESX Server 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0 using industry-standard file-sharing protocol, NFS.   VMware is a leader in this trend - vastly simplifying server management, driving up server utilization rates, driving down costs, and providing a new virtual infrastructure to simplify the ongoing management of many VMs.

While virtualization has enhanced the efficiency of servers in the data center, it has also magnified the challenges associated with traditional SAN or scale-up NAS storage solutions, often nullifying the anticipated cost savings and management advantages.  While Storage Area Networks (SANs) enable sharing of storage across multiple ESX Server hosts, each LUN requires a separate management point-either dedicated or shared across a set of VMs.  If LUNs are dedicated to individual VMs, the number of management points grows quickly with the number of VMs. In addition, if VMs are consolidated on an individual LUN, changes to a storage device or LUN may impact a large number of VMs.  An simple to manage and highly scalable storage solution from Isilon solves these challenges and provides an ideal platform for your virtualized environment.  Isilon's storage platform and OneFS operating system deliver an answer that's scalable, reliable, and easy to change or adapt over time. 

Isilon storage solutions are VMWare certified and compatible with VMware vSphere™ 4