EMC Extends VMWare Storage Solution

EMC Corporation announced extended
capabilities for VMware Infrastructure environments with unique, tested
storage solutions for key applications including Microsoft SQL Server,
Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, and SAP. These solutions enable customers to
enjoy greater business and operational value of their EMC and VMware
virtualization environments.

Leveraging its extensive applications expertise, EMC has defined optimized
application and storage solution configurations, assured interoperability and
fully documented complete deployment best practices for Microsoft SQL Server
2005, Microsoft Exchange 2007, Oracle 10g and 11g, and SAP environments to
provide quick and simplified implementation in advanced VMware
infrastructures. These application solutions have been tested and documented
at broad workloads in VMware Infrastructure 3.5 environments to enable
deployments that meet customer expectations for application-level performance,
backup and recovery, remote replication, high availability and manageability.
As a result, joint EMC and VMware customers can more rapidly achieve the cost-
reduction and flexibility of VMware environments in less time and with less
effort.

Key product components of EMC's application solution capabilities include:

iSCSI, NFS and Fibre Channel storage configurations optimized for advanced VMware virtualization environments, including EMC Celerra NS20 multi-protocol storage systems.
Advanced data de-duplication backup optimized for VMware virtualization software using VMware VCB and EMC Avamar.
Integration of VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and storage priority tools to deliver full end-to-end (CPU, memory and I/O) QoS for mission-critical virtual machines.
Application-Integrated replication leveraging Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle, and other application interfaces — completely supported in VMware environments using EMC Replication Manager.
Storage resource management that leverages VMware Virtual Center APIs to build complete end-to-end physical-to-virtual maps, topologies and performance views environments — without agents — using EMC ControlCenter software.
Business Continuity and data protection enabled by RecoverPoint and VMware VMotion.

Additionally, EMC has continued to deliver against its commitment to fully
support the forthcoming VMware Site Recovery Manager by enabling its
integration with EMC’s broad portfolio of remote replication products
including EMC SRDF, EMC MirrorView, EMC Celerra Replicator, and EMC
RecoverPoint.

"The joint engineering work that EMC and VMware are doing helps customers
get the most value out of their deployments. We are focused on optimizing our
joint solutions and supporting each other’s products," said Parag Patel, Vice
President, Alliances at VMware. "EMC’s early adopter support for VMware Site
Recovery Manager is another proof point that the two companies are committed
to bringing new technology and solutions to customers that simplify disaster
recovery, datacenter optimization and virtual desktop management. These new
solutions will enable customers to deploy mission-critical applications on
VMware virtualization software alongside EMC products with ease and
reliability."

"Server virtualization adoption and growth is requiring companies to have
the foresight to carefully consider infrastructure design decisions that will
best support virtualization initiatives. As a result, EMC is ramping its
broad storage portfolio to capitalize on the server virtualization market,"
said Mark Bowker, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "The extensive
engineering work EMC has done with the VMware platform provides added
assurance for customers as they rapidly adopt EMC solutions in VMware
environments."

EMC solutions optimized for key applications are available to EMC
customers and partners. Integration of EMC remote replication products with
VMware Site Recovery Manager will be completed when VMware Site Recovery
Manager is generally available.

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