Silver Peak Extends vSphere 6 Replication Performance Over WAN

Silver Peak Systems, Inc. announced that its WAN optimization software has tested and pre-validated the vSphere 6 Replication solution to accelerate remote replication.

The software-based approach to data acceleration overcomes WAN bandwidth, distance, and quality impediments to help storage and IT administrators meet RPO while saving money on WAN infrastructure.

Data protection is essential for BC and DR, and that includes the protection of VMs. With vSphere 6 Replication, organizations can deploy a data protection solution that frees them from storage lock-in and provides flexibility. For example, customers can leverage a ‘seed copy’ of VM data for initial synchronization and track changed disk areas so that only the deltas are replicated. This ensures efficient utilization of network resources. WAN optimization software enables more VM data to be replicated in less time, and over longer distances.

For example, a cross-country 45Mb/s Internet VPN might only produce 22Mb/s of actual throughput for replication because of the effects of latency and loss. Replicating 64GB of data under these conditions would take approximately 6.6 hours to complete. When Silver Peak optimizes the network, a 45Mb/s link can deliver throughput as high as 365Mb/s or greater, and the same 64GB dataset can be replicated in 24 minutes.

“We use vSphere Replication to replicate several dozen VMs,” said Sam Stemmons, systems consultant, eTech Solutions, (Silver Peak and VMware partner based in Oklahoma City with a team of IT consultants and systems engineers delivering the value of information systems). “Before we implemented Silver Peak, we had to restrict replication to off hours to avoid saturating the link. Now with Silver Peak in place, we run with a 15 minutes RPO on all servers with plenty of bandwidth left over for other apps!“

“vSphere Replication provides a tightly-integrated, array-agnostic solution for protecting application data and workloads,” said Mike Adams, director, vSphere product marketing, VMware, Inc.. “Together with Silver Peak, we are delivering an easy-to-deploy and cost-effective solution for vSphere and application data protection.“

Silver Peak delivers WAN optimization for VMware virtual environments, providing multi-gigabit optimization over the WAN. Deployed as a VM on vSphere, the software solves WAN performance problems by deduplicating and compressing WAN traffic, repairing dropped and out-of-order packets, and overcoming the effects of latency.

“vSphere 6 Replication provides an efficient and tightly integrated hypervisor-based solution for VM replication, and as a long-standing VMware partner, we are helping our joint customers overcome the WAN performance gap that persists today,” said Marc Trimuschat, VP alliances, Silver Peak. “By combining Silver Peak virtual WAN optimization with the new vSphere 6 Replication, enterprises can meet their RPOs, lower DR costs, and extend distances between replication sites using an existing WAN infrastructure.“

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