The “Wave 2” of Server Virtualization Adoption
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After rapid development in the past half-decade, virtualization has swept the global IT industry to become a mainstream technology that is being adopted by a majority of users.
Why the Right Storage Infrastructure is Key
In the “Wave 2” of server virtualization adoption, organizations will deploy more and more virtual machines to operate their Tier-1, mission-critical applications. Without proper planning, however, this “Wave 2” could result in virtual machine sprawl, inefficient scaling and rapidly-increasing storage complexity that plague data centers and undermine business results. That’s why the key to success in this “Wave 2” of server virtualization is the ability to tackle increasing workloads from virtual machines and ensure mission-critical systems are able to run with the highest levels of reliability and scalability. That can only be achieved by implementing a robust and dynamic storage infrastructure, because only the right storage infrastructure can continuously provide scalable capacity, power and manageability to accept and manage ever-increasing workloads. In fact, it has been proven that the right storage infrastructure enables server virtualization to achieve a penetration rate of more than 30% in a data center.
Five Elements of the Right Storage Infrastructure
According to numerous customer cases and an industry study, the right storage infrastructure must include five core elements
1.Data provisioning – enables on-demand resources to flexibly and effectively improve application performance and capacity utilization.
2.Storage tiering – simplifies storage administration across multiple internal and external storage frames, ensuring predictable performance for different storage tiers through the economical placement of data.
3.Scaling architecture – empowers multi-faceted scalability that allows storage capacity to expand without boundaries so that it can easily adapt to changes in the virtual server environment, dramatically improving time to market, manageability and cost-savings.
4.Storage virtualization for multi-vendor platforms – the capability of the storage infrastructure to support third-party solutions, enabling it to extend virtualization to them and existing disk arrays. This is important to maximize your ROI in heterogeneous environments and prolong the useful life of existing assets.
5.100% reliability – according to Symantec’s 2011 Virtualization and Evolution to the Cloud Survey, performance issues and reliability have now emerged as the top concerns keeping enterprises from placing Tier-1, mission-critical applications on virtualized servers. Although storage vendors can seldom guarantee 100% data availability, this is obviously a crucial factor in the smooth operation of Tier-1 applications.
World-leading storage vendors like Hitachi Data Systems can provide storage virtualization products such as Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) which offers functionalities and performance to help you meet the challenges of “Wave 2”. Unlike the more rudimentary storage platforms available today, Hitachi VSP is the only storage system that can provide the ability to scale up, out and deep, as well as integrate with existing server infrastructure, and flexibly adapt data for performance and capacity in a multivendor environment. In addition to its dynamic provisioning, dynamic tiering, and 100% data availability, Hitachi VSP is the best solution for the many new IT challenges created by the next wave of server virtualization.
The “Wave 2” of Server Virtualization Adoption• After rapid development in the past half-decade, virtualization has swept the global IT industry to become a mainstream technology that is being adopted by a majority of users. Why the Right Storage Infrastructure is KeyIn the “Wave 2” of server virtualization adoption, organizations will deploy more and more virtual machines to operate their Tier-1, mission-critical applications. Without proper planning, however, this “Wave 2” could result in virtual machine sprawl, inefficient scaling and rapidly-increasing storage complexity that plague data centers and undermine business results. That’s why the key to success in this “Wave 2” of server virtualization is the ability to tackle increasing workloads from virtual machines and ensure mission-critical systems are able to run with the highest levels of reliability and scalability. That can only be achieved by implementing a robust and dynamic storage infrastructure, because only the right storage infrastructure can continuously provide scalable capacity, power and manageability to accept and manage ever-increasing workloads. In fact, it has been proven that the right storage infrastructure enables server virtualization to achieve a penetration rate of more than 30% in a data center. Five Elements of the Right Storage Infrastructure According to numerous customer cases and an industry study, the right storage infrastructure must include five core elements 1.Data provisioning – enables on-demand resources to flexibly and effectively improve application performance and capacity utilization. 2.Storage tiering – simplifies storage administration across multiple internal and external storage frames, ensuring predictable performance for different storage tiers through the economical placement of data. 3.Scaling architecture – empowers multi-faceted scalability that allows storage capacity to expand without boundaries so that it can easily adapt to changes in the virtual server environment, dramatically improving time to market, manageability and cost-savings. 4.Storage virtualization for multi-vendor platforms – the capability of the storage infrastructure to support third-party solutions, enabling it to extend virtualization to them and existing disk arrays. This is important to maximize your ROI in heterogeneous environments and prolong the useful life of existing assets. 5.100% reliability – according to Symantec’s 2011 Virtualization and Evolution to the Cloud Survey, performance issues and reliability have now emerged as the top concerns keeping enterprises from placing Tier-1, mission-critical applications on virtualized servers. Although storage vendors can seldom guarantee 100% data availability, this is obviously a crucial factor in the smooth operation of Tier-1 applications. World-leading storage vendors like Hitachi Data Systems can provide storage virtualization products such as Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) which offers functionalities and performance to help you meet the challenges of “Wave 2”. Unlike the more rudimentary storage platforms available today, Hitachi VSP is the only storage system that can provide the ability to scale up, out and deep, as well as integrate with existing server infrastructure, and flexibly adapt data for performance and capacity in a multivendor environment. In addition to its dynamic provisioning, dynamic tiering, and 100% data availability, Hitachi VSP is the best solution for the many new IT challenges created by the next wave of server virtualization.
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