HDS Introduces Heterogeneous Replication Solution for VMware

As a cornerstone of a strategic initiative to enhance the disaster recovery benefits for VMware customers around the globe, Hitachi Data Systems announced it is first to achieve compatibility with VMware Site Recovery Manager, supporting heterogeneous virtualized storage. Following comprehensive qualification testing in collaboration with VMware, Hitachi is now offering customers the Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter, a software plug-in, that is designed to offer organizations continuous, real-time local and remote replication and automatic failover capabilities to ensure resilient data protection, high availability and disaster recovery for VMware environments.

As the adoption of server virtualization continues to accelerate, organizations are looking to reduce the risk, cost and complexities associated with applying traditional disaster recovery methods to virtualized workloads, and maximize the safeguard of application data stored on sprawled virtual machines across the datacenter. To address these pressing customer challenges, the Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter facilitates the linkage between Hitachi’s market-leading array-based replication technologies, including Hitachi Universal Replicator, Hitachi TrueCopy Synchronous, and Hitachi ShadowImage in-system replication software, and VMware Site Recovery Manager. Coupled together, these software solutions provide industry-leading operational resilience, robust data protection, recovery management and replication capabilities optimized for VMware infrastructure.

“We are offering a best-in-class solution for VMware SRM that will enable customers to implement an end-to-end, robust business continuity strategy for their virtual infrastructures and obtain improved Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO),” said John Mansfield, Senior Vice President, Global Solutions Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data Systems. “We look forward to our continued strategic partnership with VMware to open up new market opportunities for our business continuity and disaster recovery solutions that benefit VMware customers.”

Hitachi Data Systems has a long proven track record of providing customers a comprehensive portfolio of business continuity products, services and solutions that maintain required service levels for essential business functions and processes, ensure data availability and resilience, and aid in the prevention and mitigation of interruptions caused by planned or unplanned events. With integration support for VMware Site Recovery Manager, customers gain the ability to automate and test disaster recovery capabilities to ensure automated fail-over of their infrastructure, leveraging the advanced functionality of Hitachi Data Systems’ market-leading array-based replication solutions.

“VMware Site Recovery Manager leverages Hitachi enterprise replication technologies to deliver a robust disaster recovery solution,” said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances at VMware. “Combining VMware’s host-side virtual machine intelligence and Hitachi Data Systems’ system-based replication delivers uniquely flexible and capable offerings, ensuring that mutual customers can deploy robust disaster recovery capabilities for VMware environments that provide a high quality of service and support.”

VMware Site Recovery Manager is complementary to Hitachi Data Systems’ services-oriented data protection and recovery solutions. Leveraging a common, integrated storage management platform, customers can improve both the utilization and business continuity of their most critical business applications, reduce risks, and improve the resilience of both servers and storage assets.

The Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter is immediately available to Hitachi Data Systems and VMware customers.

For more information