CloudByte With VMware and Citrix

CloudByte Inc., a company that guarantees QoS for applications within shared storage, announced that its ElastiStor solution has been certified by VMware and Citrix.

Following testing on VMware ESXi 5.0/5.1, Citrix XenServer 6.0 and CloudPlatform 2.x and 3.x, these certifications allow service providers and enterprises operating in these virtualized environments to realize the benefits of ElastiStor solution.

In addition, CloudByte has developed a VMware vCenter plugin that enables admins to provision and manage storage QoS for every VM, right from the vCenter console.

Scaling performance-guaranteeing storage remains a key challenge in the new-age datacenters. ElastiStor overcomes this challenge by delivering QoS to every application right from a shared storage platform. With ElastiStor, datacenters can now replace dedicated storage islands with an extensible storage platform, resulting in a steep reduction in storage footprint and associated costs. Further, it simplifies storage management with its on-demand provisioning, comprehensive management console, REST APIs and plugins. It makes storage predictable, affordable, and easy even as datacenters scale to thousands of applications.

Benefits for vSphere and XenServer Customers

• QoS-guaranteed VMs: Every storage endpoint (LUN) within an ElastiStor node can be configured in terms of IOPS, throughput and latency. This allows VMs with disparate workloads to be guaranteed QoS right from a shared storage platform.
• On-demand provisioning: ElastiStor breaks the need for hardwiring storage to configure a VM’s storage performance by intelligently automating node selection and resource allocation.
• Management: Storage admins can now manage the entire storage cluster, spanning across multiple sites, from a single web-based console. Further, ElastiStor gives access and control over resource usage within shared storage, right down to the VM-level granularity.
• Integration with REST APIs: Every action performed at the ElastiStor admin console translates into a REST-based API call in the backend, enabling admins to manage ElastiStor right from their existing portals. Our vCenter plugin (also based on REST APIs) allows admins to provision NFS datastores for VMs and set QoS parameters to them, right from the vCenter console.
• Security and reliability: With isolation across all storage stack levels and optional data encryption, ElastiStor offers complete security for VMs within a shared storage platform. It offers N-Way HA, exponentially increasing uptime or mean-time-to-failure (MTTF), compared to legacy 2-way HA.

"ElastiStor is architected to meet the scalability and performance demands of virtualized environments and being certified by two leading server virtualization providers is a logical step forward for us. Our customers can now confidently rely on ElastiStor interoperability with VMs on VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer," said Felix Xavier, founder and CTO, CloudByte.