VAAI includes three separate capabilities: block zeroing, full copy, and hardware assisted locking. The AssuredSAN 3000 fully supports these functions with the new firmware and can now speed provisioning of new virtual machines, accelerate cloning and reduce the use of the CPU for storage vMotion functions.
SRM is VMware’s flagship product for data protection and disaster recovery across geographic sites. SRM is integrated with array-based replication to provide an efficient mechanism for maintaining replicas of virtual machines on multiple sites. The Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series, with built-in AssuredRemote™ technology, provides the critical replication element of the overall SRM solution, enabling customers to implement a comprehensive disaster recovery plan for their mission-critical virtual machines.
The VAAI support on the Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series is certified by VMware on vSphere 4.1 and 5. The SRM support on the Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series is certified by VMware on vSphere 5. These new features are available through a free software upgrade to the AssuredSAN array and are enabled by a free software plug-in to the VMware ESX servers.
“Customers using VMware virtualization require high performance and high availability network storage solutions. Dot Hill’s AssuredSAN 3000 series provides a unique combination of high speed and five 9s of availability,” said Jim Jonez, senior director of marketing, Dot Hill. “The Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 array with VAAI and SRM support improves storage efficiency with added security for VMware users.”
Specifically, customers choosing the Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 array enjoy significant advantages over users of competitive offerings such as advanced data management, remote replication, snapshots, volume copy, energy-saving drive-spin-down and Dot Hill’s patented EcoStor™ green features. Dual redundant RAID controllers, dual power supplies and dual fans bring uptime figures to five 9s of availability. The Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series provides the highest levels of data protection for today’s virtualized environments and leverages VMware’s virtual file system and Storage VMotion technologies to perform proactive, non-disruptive storage migration, eliminate virtual machine I/O bottlenecks and free up valuable storage capacity, maximizing IT investments.
“While users appreciate that they can free up server and IO resources to support virtualized production workloads by moving IO-intensive processes from their ESX hosts to their storage arrays, the actual level of benefit they’ll realize from VAAI will to a large degree depend on the underlying storage. Flexible, scalable, high performance storage systems with VAAI integration will logically allow customers to gain more efficiencies, increase consolidation, and therefore reap greater returns on their VMware investments,” states Mark Peters, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.
Dot Hill’s new firmware release featuring VAAI and SRM support will be available within 30 days. The firmware upgrade is free to existing Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 customers and can be accessed through Dot Hill support.
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