In order to run your virtual data center, you likely require a wide range of storage performance from your SAN to accommodate diverse applications that support your business infrastructure. With GreenBytes Solidarity HA SAN technology, customers do not need to provide a tiered approach for their Datastores reflecting “Fast” and “Not-as-Fast” storage platforms. One unified GreenBytes platform provides real-world IOPS storage performance perfectly suited for demanding virtualized business applications.
How about some specifics?
- GreenBytes storage arrays offer superlative performance for transactional I/O (IOPS) and throughput, and all of the benefits of the advanced features of vSphere 5/ESXi are available:
- Multiple path I/O enabling no single-point-of-failure architectures with GreenBytes storage
- Central GreenBytes Datastore for multiple ESXi hosts provide fast, automatic restarts on secondary hosts
- Live migration of virtual machines using VMware vMotion for zero downtime maintenance
- Use VMware high availability (HA) in conjunction with GreenBytes Datastores to restart virtual machines if their host fails
- Use VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) to replicate protected virtual machines on two different hosts
- Use VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to migrate virtual machines for load balancing
- Use VMware Storage vMotion to migrate Datastores to/from GreenBytes Solidarity systems without downtime
And remember…
All IOPS Are NOT Created Equal!
SAN manufacturers are eager to publish data about fantastic IOPS benchmarks, especially those with SSD-powered storage array technology. With Solidarity, customers are assured that the IOPS specifications reflect real-world scenarios, where write and read loads reflect data access patterns most common in ESXi virtual data centers. Additionally, when investing in an architecture intended for no-single-point-of-failure operations, GreenBytes recognizes that transactional integrity for synchronous I/O is imperative for customer virtual data center operations, and suitably GreenBytes I/O claims reflect that measure of protection.
And last, but certainly not least…
GreenBytes is the Only HA SAN on the Market with Inline Deduplication and Hardware Accelerated Compression
This means that in almost all cases, ESXi Datastores reflect a 2X or greater effective capacity over SANs that do not offer deduplication. And, unlike other competitive deduplication technology claims, customers do not sacrifice service level objectives by settling for single controller storage technology, nor do GreenBytes published I/O specifications reflect anything other than full utilization of these unique data reduction efficiencies. Aptly, the overall aim of any VMware virtualization project is to provide greater efficiency in administration, space, power and expense while maintaining organizational service-level objectives. The cost of a high-performance HA SAN is often deemed as the VMware budget-busting obstacle. You will be pleasantly surprised at the overall affordability of the GreenBytes Solidarity SAN and that all of its features are included with no extra fees or licenses.
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