VMware is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With more than 100,000 customers and more than 10,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest-growing public software companies. VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and on the Web at www.vmware.com.
Solution Features and Benefits
VMware's broad suite of virtualization solutions addresses a range of complex challenges facing IT organizations, including:
- Server Consolidation & Infrastructure Optimization: VMware technology - including the industry's only complete virtual infrastructure -- helps organizations consolidate servers and increase utilization rates, greatly reduce power and cooling costs, and manage and automate IT processes for maximum availability, performance and scalability.
- Business Continuity: With exclusive features such as automated load balancing and live migration of virtual machines, VMware technology enables organizations to increase uptime and reduce the cost and complexity of meeting high availability and disaster recovery objectives.
- Virtual Lab Automation: Developers and other IT professionals use VMware solutions to streamline the software development and testing process, reduce server provisioning time, and improve software quality.
- Enterprise Desktop Management: Enabling enterprises to better manage and control their desktop systems, VMware helps customers speed deployments, administer systems from a central location, and provide end-users with a satisfying physical-PC experience.
Joint Solution Benefits
Isilon Clustered Storage provides a scalable, highly reliable, and easy to manage system for storing Virtual Machines (VMs) hosted on VMware ESX Server 3.0 and 3.5 using the industry-standard file-sharing protocol, NFS.
Server virtualization is quickly becoming a standard in major enterprises- both for simplifying the overhead and reducing the cost of managing large-scale server environments for test, development, and production applications and workloads. 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.
However, a hidden by-product of server sprawl-storage sprawl-challenges both physical and virtualized environments, especially for enterprises consolidating or deploying large numbers of VMs for Tier 2 and Tier 3 server applications.
While Storage Area Networks (SANs) enable sharing of storage across multiple ESX Server hosts (an advancement over DAS), 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. If VMs are consolidated on an individual LUN, changes to a storage device or LUN may impact a large number of VMs.
An easier solution is needed- Isilon clustered storage. Isilon's storage platform and OneFS operating system deliver an answer that's scalable, reliable, and easy to change or adapt over time. Isilon clustered storage and VMware provides customers with an enterprise infrastructure that's powerful, flexible and simple to manage.
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