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Introducing Storage Virtual Appliances (SvSAN)

Many users are looking for ways to maximize their investment and want to leverage the advanced features available in ESX, but can’t do so without making a significant investment in a shared storage system. Why spend thousands of dollars when you can leverage the internal storage available in your ESX server?

VMware users deserve a more flexible, robust and cost effective shared storage solution for their virtual server environment. Shared storage systems are needed in order to leverage the real benefits of ESX (such as VMotion), but are often seen as out of reach, too complicated or too expensive for mid-sized organizations.

StorMagic's SvSAN addresses these issues with a Storage Virtual Appliance. Visit http://www.stormagic.com/products_SvSAN.php for more on the SvSAN

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Featured Case Study

Virtualization Energizes Cal State University

John Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years.

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Featured How-To Note

Storage Virtualization Design and Deployment

A main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more of the largest storage pools within a data center.

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