EMC's VNX storage intelligence suite will integrate with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite to offer integrated storage metrics.
Business analytics and information firm EMC
and virtualization specialist VMware deepened their partnership, working
together to integrate EMCs VNX storage intelligence with the analytics of the
VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite. The sales and development agreement
between the two companies will combine EMCs storage intelligence with the
analytics and infrastructure visualization of VMware vCenter Operations. The
VNX Storage Analytics Suite and VNX Connector for VMware vCenter Operations
Management Suite will be available in the second half of 2012, an EMC release
said.
The VNX Storage Analytics Suite offers
capabilities such as storage performance and capacity optimization and service-level
agreement (SLA) improvement through analytics and diagnostics, while the VNX
Connector provides VNX storage metrics and configurable dashboards within the VMware
Operations Management Suite. Integration between the VNX Connector for VMware
vCenter Operations Management Suite allows VNX storage metrics and VMware
vCenter Operations capabilities to function together, offering configurable
dashboards with drill-down capabilities, health alerts and analytics.
"The combination of EMC storage
intelligence and vCenter Operations Management Suite will offer automated
optimization and simplicity for our joint customers. Together, these solutions
can help drive increased storage performance and infrastructure management in
highly dynamic virtual and cloud environments, as well as physical data
centers, while delivering operational cost benefits, Ramin Sayar, vice
president and general manager of cloud and virtualization management products
for VMware, said in a press statement. With this integrated cross-domain
solution, organizations of all sizes can proactively manage their overall
infrastructure system health, as they continue to automate and transform their
IT infrastructure."
The VNX unified storage family already offers
VMware and Hyper-V integration and support for hundreds of Microsoft Exchange
mailboxes. The Storage Analytics Suite will support block and file storage as
well as display EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST ) Cache configuration
and performance, and FAST VP (FAST for Virtual Pools) tiers and policies. Users
can also take advantage of flash-optimized performance from an all flash array
to using flash drives for extendable cache and in the virtual storage pool.
"The benefits of total transparency into
storage systems, in both physical and virtualized infrastructures, are
staggering. VNX Storage Analytics Suite is designed to capitalize on this
transparency by offering simplified storage management, optimized performance
and easily maintained service levels for unprecedented efficiency, EMCs
unified storage division president Rich Napolitano said in a prepared
statement. This holistic view of assets, combined with storage metrics,
including FAST Cache and FAST VP, will optimize both efficiency and
performancecritical elements of any IT strategy."
Nathan Eddy is Associate Editor, Midmarket, at eWEEK.com. Before joining eWEEK.com, Nate was a writer with ChannelWeb and he served as an editor at FierceMarkets. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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