VPLEX for Hybrid Cloud Availability and Protection

At EMC World 2012, EMC Corp. announced that the new combination of EMC VPLEX virtual storage with EMC RecoverPoint data protection is defining a new standard for hybrid cloud availability and protection.

This new combination delivers a solution to combine active-active data centers with third site disaster recovery protection, affording customers the HA benefits of VPLEX AccessAnywhere cache coherency technology and the ProtectEverywhere of RecoverPoint across all EMC and non-EMC block storage.

With 40% more performance, new performance monitoring and 2X the scale of previous versions, VPLEX delivers customers mobility, availability and collaboration to be deployed to a greater number of IT environments-including VMware vSphere and Oracle RAC. VPLEX distributed virtual storage simplifies virtual environments, by enabling the same data to be accessible simultaneously across virtual servers. These new VPLEX features enable VPLEX virtual storage to be managed directly from VMware vSphere further streamlining management in virtual environments.

As customers increasingly take advantage of the flexibility and choice to store and serve information with a hybrid cloud, these new VPLEX and RecoverPoint capabilities combine to deliver the mobility, availability and data protection required to transform their IT environments to take advantage of the hybrid cloud.

VPLEX can now deliver customers new levels of:

HA

• RecoverPoint now protects the entire EMC storage portfolio including the VMAX Family, the VNX Series and VPLEX (Local and Metro) – with protection. Customers can now leverage RecoverPoint’s continuous data protection capabilities with VPLEX to provide copies of their production data for fast, efficient, and up-to-the-second recovery in the event of a data corruption issue. Customers can also leverage RecoverPoint continuous local replication and continuous remote replication to protect their data from site disasters.
• In VMware environments, new integration of VPLEX and RecoverPoint enables flexibility for data protection and HAty of virtual machines. VPLEX delivers customers easy, ongoing data mobility  for virtual machines. Now, the combination of VPLEX with RecoverPoint and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager delivers predictable and ordered disaster recovery, and restart of virtual machines. This is backed by VMware’s certification of RecoverPoint and VPLEX Local and Metro.
• RecoverPoint provides cost-effective, local continuous data protection  and continuous local and remote replication of data with any-point-in-time data recovery. It brings databases and applications back online quickly and easily after an event like data corruption. This technology reduces recovery time and increases the number of recovery points for application environments.

Performance

• VPLEX is delivering increased integration for virtual environments to provide a complete picture for easy management of both the virtualized server and storage environments directly from vSphere through new integration with vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) and vSphere VAAI.
• It now delivers up to 40% more performance on currently-deployed platforms-without requiring any additional investment in hardware, and 2X the scale with the ability to support up to 1,600 host initiators per VPLEX configuration.
• Recently certified support for Oracle RAC enables multi-site active/active RAC deployments over up to 100 kilometers, maintaining synchronization and continuous operations in the event of a site failure.

Management

• EMC Unisphere simplifies management with an intuitive user interface, which now supports EMC’s complete storage portfolio including VMAX family, VPLEX, and the VNX family. Unisphere for VPLEX provides customers with the same EMC standard look and feel. It provides a way to simplify, normalize, and consolidate management tools to make it easier for customers to management their environments.

Sebastien Roque, GIS Storage Infrastructure manager, sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC., said: "Sanofi is a global healthcare leader committed to discovering, developing and distributing safe and effective medicines, vaccines, and consumer health products to improve the lives of patients and their families. The technology behind our research is the enabler for achieving this, which is why we’re building private clouds-and migrating 4,000 applications to new data centers. This will enable our teams to seamlessly share and optimize resources across multiple applications. At the heart, VMAX is delivering the scale, automation and efficiency we require. Additionally VPLEX integration with RecoverPoint will enable us to build in the future active/active data centers with third site disaster recovery. EMC is helping us achieve and deliver the performance and flexibility that defines a next-generation data center."

Brian Gallagher, president, Enterprise Storage Division, EMC, said: "EMC remains years ahead of the industry with VPLEX’s ability to deliver true active/active data center capabilities. EMC created a new market in 2010 with the introduction of VPLEX. Today we’re extending EMC’s trusted disaster recovery and data protection solutions to active/active data centers-thereby maximizing data availability and protection. EMC is enabling customers to think differently about how they share their data – eliminating former data center boundaries."