Isilon X-Series Storage Cluster Certified With VMware

Isilon Systems announced that
Isilon’s new X-Series clustered storage systems have been certified and
integrated with VMware ESX Server 3.0. Isilon’s clustered storage
systems, applying the same principles used in virtualized computing,
create a high performance and highly scalable, single, shared pool of
virtualized storage to enable instant access to critical business
information, while dramatically reducing the costs and complexity of
managing storage growth.

By combining Isilon clustered storage with the
VMware ESX Server, enterprises can eliminate traditional storage as a
bottleneck and create a fully virtualized infrastructure – from servers
to storage – which increases data center flexibility and utilization
while reducing costs. Isilon announced the release of its X-Series
clustered storage systems today (see separate press release).

"Today’s enterprise data center customers are seeking improved
efficiency in the purchase and deployment of physical IT assets. For
many, this means providing greater asset consolidation through the use
of server virtualization solutions. At the same time, they are also
experiencing tremendous growth in file-level and unstructured data,"
said Brad Nisbet, Program Manager, IDC. "This shift necessitates a
storage layer capable of supporting the data needs within a virtualized
server environment, ensuring the ability to manage the growth of
unstructured data and to maximize the investments in virtualized
computing."

"Virtualization continues to spread across the IT industry as a core
component of data center design and is creating a major shift in
enterprise computing. Clustered storage is sparking the same kind of
revolution in enterprise storage," said Brett Goodwin, Vice President
of Marketing and Business Development. "Isilon’s new X Series clustered
storage systems integrate with VMware Infrastructure 3, providing
enterprise business with a complete virtualized architecture to
maximize productivity, flexibility and resource utilization within the
next generation data center."

Using VMware ESX Server 3.0, enterprise businesses can streamline
their IT infrastructure into single points of management for both
server and storage, maximizing the utilization, flexibility and value
of these resources. As a result of deploying these virtualized
computing environments, the performance, ease of use and cost reduction
requirements for enterprise storage increase and serve to considerably
amplify the challenges of traditional SAN and NAS storage systems. By
combining VMware Infrastructure 3 with Isilon X-Series clustered
storage systems – which deliver more than 1.6 Petabytes of capacity and
up to 10 Gigabytes per second of total throughput from a single file
system and single volume – enterprise businesses can obtain the
efficiency and high availability that VMware Infrastructure 3 offers in
the storage environment and eliminate the barriers associated with
traditional storage. This integration provides a fully virtualized IT
infrastructure with servers, network connections, and storage all
consolidated into single points of management, significantly improving
scalability, performance and ease of use across the entire data center,
while dramatically reducing costs and complexity.

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