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Document Category: Whitepaper
Subject: SAN Storage
Vendor: HDS, VMware
Keywords: HDS, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, Management, vCenter, Virtualization, VMware, vSphere 5
Document Date: 2011-08
Document Number: 793
# of Pages: 5
Short Description:
Discussion on the emergence of storage and server management for virtual environments. Covers HDS and VMware
Full Summary:
VMware has been deployed typically to reduce the number of servers managed by centralized IT and the corresponding expenses that can balloon out of control when servers have a one-to-one relationship with applications. The result is server sprawl. We now see that VMware deployments can address at least three major business-related IT requirements:
The desire to deliver a flexible services delivery experience
Business application users and CIOs alike are increasingly interested in applications delivered via the cloud. In order to compete with external clouds, internal IT must be responsive, flexible and services-oriented to deliver the cloud user experience. VMware has the potential to deliver a services-oriented application environment. But a services-oriented delivery model will require tighter integration between the storage layer and the rest of the application delivery “stack.”
The need to control CAPEX and OPEX expenditures and more efficiently manage supporting infrastructure growth
To date, VMware has been typically implemented to reduce or at least control IT CAPEX and OPEX expenditures. It has been hugely successful in eliminating overly redundant server capacity (CAPEX) and the bloated management, maintenance, and energy costs (OPEX) associated with the single-server-per-application delivery model. On the storage side, however, we have seen the supporting VMware storage architecture requiring ever increasing amounts of storage capacity and additional management personnel to just keep pace with a quickly growing VMware environment, thus reversing some of the benefits realized from virtualizing servers.
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Simplifying VMware Storage Management
VMware has been deployed typically to reduce the number of servers managed by centralized IT and the corresponding expenses that can balloon out of control when servers have a one-to-one relationship with applications. The result is server sprawl. We now see that VMware deployments can address at least three major business-related IT requirements:
The desire to deliver a flexible services delivery experience
Business application users and CIOs alike are increasingly interested in applications delivered via the cloud. In order to compete with external clouds, internal IT must be responsive, flexible and services-oriented to deliver the cloud user experience. VMware has the potential to deliver a services-oriented application environment. But a services-oriented delivery model will require tighter integration between the storage layer and the rest of the application delivery “stack.”
The need to control CAPEX and OPEX expenditures and more efficiently manage supporting infrastructure growth
To date, VMware has been typically implemented to reduce or at least control IT CAPEX and OPEX expenditures. It has been hugely successful in eliminating overly redundant server capacity (CAPEX) and the bloated management, maintenance, and energy costs (OPEX) associated with the single-server-per-application delivery model. On the storage side, however, we have seen the supporting VMware storage architecture requiring ever increasing amounts of storage capacity and additional management personnel to just keep pace with a quickly growing VMware environment, thus reversing some of the benefits realized from virtualizing servers.