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The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. EMC, the large US-based maker of storage systems, has launched new management software for its Clariion and Celerra midrange storage platforms, aimed at customers who are virtualizing their data centers and building private clouds.
According to the vendor, the new Unisphere management software for the two platforms reduces by 90 percent the amount of clicks storage administrators need to do to perform common tasks. EMC also tried to "make life easier" for VMware administrators by integrating the new software with VMware vCenter.
The company says Unisphere and integration of vCenter Server and VMware's sStorage API's for Array Integration (VAAI) simplifies management of both Clariion and Celera storage systems in physical and virtual environments.
Among the benefits are quick "set it and forget it" tuning for application workloads, two-click storage provisioning from a vCenter Server, faster VMware server performance, capacity for 10 times more VM's per data store and faster VM deployment, clone, snapshot and Storage vMotion migrations.
EMC has also built in FCoE support into the two storage platforms, however Clariion and Celerra systems with native FCoE support will not be available until the fourth quarter of this year.
Also in the fourth quarter, EMC expects to launch its new 200Gb Flash drives on its Symmetrix VMAX virtualized storage systems. The company says adopting Solid State Drives and coupling them with SATA drives is the "best practice" for addressing the strain virtualization and application consolidation puts on storage arrays.
According to the vendor, the new Unisphere management software for the two platforms reduces by 90 percent the amount of clicks storage administrators need to do to perform common tasks. EMC also tried to "make life easier" for VMware administrators by integrating the new software with VMware vCenter.
The company says Unisphere and integration of vCenter Server and VMware's sStorage API's for Array Integration (VAAI) simplifies management of both Clariion and Celera storage systems in physical and virtual environments.
Among the benefits are quick "set it and forget it" tuning for application workloads, two-click storage provisioning from a vCenter Server, faster VMware server performance, capacity for 10 times more VM's per data store and faster VM deployment, clone, snapshot and Storage vMotion migrations.
EMC has also built in FCoE support into the two storage platforms, however Clariion and Celerra systems with native FCoE support will not be available until the fourth quarter of this year.
Also in the fourth quarter, EMC expects to launch its new 200Gb Flash drives on its Symmetrix VMAX virtualized storage systems. The company says adopting Solid State Drives and coupling them with SATA drives is the "best practice" for addressing the strain virtualization and application consolidation puts on storage arrays.