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VMware Virtual Infrastructure

In VMware environments, networked access to storage assets is required. To effectively leverage the capabilities of VMware’s virtual infrastructure (including VMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduling, and High Availability), storage must not only be network-accessible, but high performance, highly available, and easily scaled without impacting applications or limiting performance as workloads change and grow. Networked storage must be simple to deploy, flexible to manage, and intrinsically reduce ongoing costs to truly reap the economic benefits of server consolidation. An EqualLogic virtualized iSCSI SAN is the most cost-effective enterprise storage solution for VMware environments.

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Comprehensive initiator support
EqualLogic PS Series arrays have been tested and approved by VMware, and are listed on VMware’s VI3 Hardware Compatibility list. EqualLogic has comprehensive support of VMware Infrastructure 3 and VMware Server across leading hardware and software initiators for host operating systems as well as native initiators available in VMware ESX Server 3.

MPIO and failover
PS Series arrays support MPIO failover, and NIC teaming technologies to provide robust path and controller failover, as well as aggregate I/O bandwidth to meet even the most demanding virtual server workloads.

Enterprise data protection and disaster recovery
Snapshots, clones, and replication are core, built-in features of the PS Series applicable in a variety of ways to enhance the VMware environment with low-overhead, low-cost data protection and disaster recovery.

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Clustering
EqualLogic is fully compatible with VMware Server application clustering based on Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) as well as VMware Infrastructure 3’s High Availability (HA) feature to allow for rapid, non-disruptive failover of ESX Servers.

Simplified management
PS Group Manager, EqualLogic’s unified SAN management tool, is a simple, intuitive storage management and provisioning tool that enables you to consolidate all storage on the SAN into a unified resource that is easy to configure and manage through a centralized interface. PS Group Manager complements VMware’s VirtualCenter tool to deliver simple, flexible management across the virtualized environment.

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Optimized performance
EqualLogic PS Series arrays offer unparalleled performance for your VMware environment. The PS Series’ automatic load-balancing capability seamlessly spreads data across all active RAID sets, maximizing performance by intelligently optimizing all available network connections, cache, controllers, and drives. EqualLogic delivers exceptional scale-out performance in VMware environments as documented in the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) 60,000 Exchange 2007 user test report.