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The VMware and EqualLogic Technology Partnership

VMware builds a suite of virtualization infrastructure software to empower enterprises and small businesses alike to optimize and manage their IT environments through virtualization. With the recent introduction of VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware now supports native iSCSI initiators in their flagship product. EqualLogic PS Series arrays are fully qualified and supported in VMware Infrastructure 3 environments.

Together, EqualLogic and VMware provide enterprise solutions that enable the virtualized environment, both servers and storage, within a customer's IT environment. By combining VMware Virtual Infrastructure and EqualLogic PS Series arrays together, customers are provided a solution that delivers significantly improved infrastructure scalability and management, high availability, high reliability and significant cost savings. Customers benefit from a more flexible, cost-effective, and simpler infrastructure that reduces management overhead and rapidly adapts to changing business requirements.

EqualLogic's virtualized 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 deploying EqualLogic, IT departments circumvent the cost and management complexity of traditional Fibre Channel SANs without compromising the enterprise-class storage demands of a VMware virtualized infrastructure.

Using advanced storage virtualization techniques, complexity is further reduced as EqualLogic 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.

EqualLogic is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner.