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Virtual Servers and Virtual Storage Make Sense!
While there are significant differences between virtual
servers and virtual storage, both must work together and both
attack exactly the same fundamental problem - making the many
work as simply as one.
"Virtual servers and virtual storage both seek
to optimise the utilization of common resources (CPUs and
Disks) and stress the flexibility to readily redeploy these
resources (servers and storage) when and where they are needed."
Server and Storage virtualisation software technologies allow
users to manage more with less. Users can treat their hardware
as commodities and utilise that hardware at levels never previously
achieved.
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Increases utilization rates up to 80% or more |
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Reduces Provisioning times for new applications from
days to minutes |
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Accelerates Response times for change requests, time
is money |
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Eliminates disruptions for upgrades and hardware
maintenance |
Virtual Capacity: DataCore's
Vision of Storage Virtualisation
"Another key driver for storage virtualisation is the
increase in server virtualisation products like VMware. They
drive the need for a lot more storage. When you only had individual
servers, you would just use the attached captive disks installed
in the server. With server virtualisation products, you need
virtual infrastructure storage, which can be served up to
one server, or many servers, or a farm of servers. A lot more
capacity and flexibility is required, and there's typically
a lot more performance load on those virtualised servers.
Because of DataCore's scalability and performance, our storage
virtualisation may help foster an even faster rate of adoption
of combined large-scale server and storage virtualisation
infrastructures. It's an interesting cycle; server virtualisation
drives more storage and performance requirements, therefore
driving the need for powerful storage virtualisation
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