Building a virtual infrastructure from the outset based on a VMware certified external shared storage network provides the foundation for distributed infrastructure services such as live migration of virtual machines and virtual disk files, as well as distributed resource scheduling, consolidated backup and automated disaster recovery.
In today’s challenging economic climate server and VMware Solutions provides the key to maximizing your investment in IT hardware assets. However, the business benefits extend way beyond asset utilization to include simple provision for disaster recovery, easy automated backup of business critical data and seamless data capacity expansion as business needs grow. In order to capitalize on these key benefits it is essential to build a virtual infrastructure based on an external storage area network using a certified VMware storage solution.
The VMware virtual file system VMFS and VMware Storage VMotion technologies enable live migration of virtual machine disk files across shared storage arrays. This powerful technology can be leveraged to perform proactive, non-disruptive storage migration, eliminate virtual machine storage I/O bottlenecks and free up valuable storage capacity only when combined with a VMware certified storage area network (SAN).
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