Server Virtualization
Virtualization and consolidation are driving tremendous growth in capacity requirements and typically operate over expensive primary storage. Recently, many IT organizations started adopting NFS-based server virtualization implementations due to reduced costs and complexity vs. SAN implementations.
Server virtualization typically generates very high random-access I/O loads and has multiple copies for DR, backup, testing and many other purposes. IBM Storwize real-time compression technology redefines the economics of server virtualization and provides the following key benefits:
- Reduced capacity required for guest OS image files (incl. OS, data files and swap/paging)
- Consolidate more Virtual Machines per storage array
- Reduced replication costs
- Fully transparent to VMware configuration
- Improves VMware performance
- Shorter backup & restore times
- Enable DR services to more Virtual Machines
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