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Grant, a Sr. Storage Admin at a large bank discusses how heterogeneous storage virtualization can help reduce the budget for 2009.
WikitipSvSAN - High Availability for Free ESXi and ESXi Essentials, without vCenter RequirementStorMagic, a leading provider of enterprise-class virtual storage for virtual-server environments, today announced a High Availability virtual server solution for VMware ESXi extending to vSphere Essentials. StorMagic’s High Availability option for ESXi will be a standardized feature with its acclaimed virtual storage appliance (VSA) the SvSAN. Designed as an affordable alternative to physical storage, SvSAN became popular as a virtual shared storage solution for server virtualization environments, enabling VMware vSphere features such as High Availability, vMotion and DRS. “Many VMware users approached us looking for ways to achieve cost-effective High Availability as they began the early stages of virtualization. We felt that our SvSAN could be enhanced to provide a VMware-based solution for them versus the alternative of going to another platform,” said Hans O’Sullivan CEO at StorMagic. SvSAN’s High Availability enables ESXi users to achieve affordable HA for virtual machines with or without vCenter. In combination with the SvSAN’s Web-based management tool, this decreases the cost and complexity of entry into virtualization. “It’s the SvSAN’s flexibility that generates so much interest as a solution for multi-site environments. Now with SvSAN’s new HA management functionality for Virtual Machines, customers can begin to enjoy the benefits of virtualization at an affordable cost,” explains Richard Forrest, Director of Sales at StorMagic. StorMagic’s SvSAN HA functionality is currently available as a Beta with the full release due mid-September. Existing customers with support contracts in place will be able to upgrade at no additional cost. Web: StorMagic
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Virtualization Energizes Cal State UniversityJohn 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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Storage Virtualization Design and DeploymentA 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. | |||
