Virtual Infrastructure
Today’s IT managers spend significant time and energy dealing with an unwieldy assortment of applications, operating systems, and server environments. Increasingly, managers are employing virtualization technologies to re-engineer their IT infrastructures; results include reduced operational complexity, increased flexibility to address new business needs, and significantly lower costs. With an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN, you can achieve the full portability and management benefits of a virtual infrastructure – without virtual storage, virtual server capabilities are limited.
Virtual SAN Infrastructure for Performance, Scalability, and Simplicity
Virtual storage for virtual servers
EqualLogic
virtualizes the entire SAN to simplify deployment and ongoing management. EqualLogic volumes are automatically provisioned as a single, scalable pool of storage that leverages all storage resources within the SAN. Even as workload demands shift or migrate between virtual machines and their physical host servers, EqualLogic's virtualized SAN
automatically applies storage resources where and when they are needed without intervention or manual tuning.
Cost-effective, enterprise-class networked storage
With many workloads aggregated on fewer resources in a virtualized environment, enterprise-class reliability, performance, and features cannot be compromised. PS Series solutions are
built for enterprise deployment, providing 99.999% availability through a fully redundant, hot-pluggable system architecture. Volumes are RAID-protected, and through advanced system and disk monitoring, faults can be quickly recognized and addressed without downtime. Each array includes a
robust set of data protection tools including snapshots, clones, replication, and online migration, all bundled into the system at no additional cost.
Simple integration, provisioning, and ongoing management
EqualLogic PS Series arrays are simple to deploy, manage, and grow. Systems go from our of the box to production deployment in
less than an hour using an intuitive, wizard-based GUI to integrate easily into the Ethernet backbone of the virtual infrastructure.
iSCSI connectivity leverages the IP networking skills of your regular IT staff, eliminating the need for special training. In addition, through the PS Group Manager - a centralized graphical management interface - volumes are quickly provisioned and securely accessible by all servers within the virtual infrastructure.
Flexible, scalable virtual infrastructure
EqualLogic complements virtual server environments with advanced features that reduce complexity, increase flexibility, and minimize application downtime due to infrastructure changes. Capacity and performance of the virtual SAN are easily expanded, seamlessly and without disruption. Workloads from across all virtual servers are automatically load balanced, efficiently utilizing all available storage resources. Non-disruptive, online migration of data volumes among
storage tiers and pools allows physical storage resources to be re-allocated to meet changing business needs or to be specifically dedicated to individual workloads.
Partnering with the leading virtual infrastructure providers
EqualLogic has the
most comprehensive ecosystem in iSCSI storage. Through our cooperative efforts, the PS Series has been certified and is compatible with key virtual infrastructure platforms including Microsoft, PolyServe, Virtual Iron, VMware, and XenSource.
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