Simplified Storage Provisioning And Management For VMware Environments

By Eric Lomascolo Sr. Product Marketing Manager Xiotech Corporation

Xiotech's virtual storage systems—Magnitude 3D® 4000 and Emprise™ 7000—provide easy-to-manage, reliable shared storage for your VMware environment. Some of the benefits of integrating Xiotech's storage with VMware ESX Server are described later in this paper. But first, let's look at Xiotech's latest innovation: Virtual View for VMware.

Mapping storage from VMware's Virtual Center and ESX servers is easy enough at the start of your deployment. However, as your VM environment grows, management can soon get out of control.

Imagine you have multiple VMs assigned to a single VMFS volume that is concatenated across multiple storage system VDisks. Removing one of the VDisks that make up that single VMFS volume is disastrous— not only to a single VM but across all VMs that were provisioned across the VMFS volume.