Simplify Storage for VMware Environments with IBM N series Virtualization SolutionsThe Challenge: MaxiMize The benefiTs of a virTualized server environMenT

Server consolidation and virtualization promise an enterprise infrastructure to be efficient, flexible, and scalable. In order to leverage your responsiveness to market and business needs and to fully realize the benefits of server virtualization, you need to address the increased demands that virtualized servers pose for your storage infrastructure. Backup becomes more critical and rapid recovery is increasingly imperative with virtualized servers. To take full advantage of all the benefits associated with server virtualization, your data-center transformation strategy must consider storage as well as servers.

The soluTion: inClude ibM n series unified sTorage arChiTeCTure To your virTualizaTion soluTion

Building a comprehensive virtualized infrastructure begins with IBM N series solutions. We do for storage what VMware does for servers. Our automated backup and recovery solutions provide high data protection. With our solutions, you can protect your infrastructure with rapid recovery. At the same time, our solutions are intended to maximize utilization and lower total cost of ownership without affecting performance by using our deduplication and thin provisioning technologies. We can also help you to simplify management and administrative complexity with a broad portfolio of unified storage solutions. Our unified storage solutions for production, testing, development, and desktop environments complement the manageability, utilization, and cost-saving benefits of your VMware deployments.

Manage risk

Now you can protect your virtual infrastructure and your data with backup, replication, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions that are designed to have virtually no impact on performance. With our solutions, you are able to recover virtual machines as fast as you can compared other solutions in VMware environments.

Our storage- and network-efficient data protection solutions are intended to reduce the need for an expensive disaster recovery (DR) infrastructure. Because of the cost efficiencies we provide, we can help you afford to protect more of your data. Our simplified solutions are able to deliver rapid and reliable recovery across all application tiers.

key benefiTs

Accelerate time to market. ■ You can provision your storage as quickly as your virtual servers and shorten test and development cycles from weeks to minutes with instant storage provisioning and cloning of VMware® virtual machines.

Reduce costs. ■ Slash VMware storage requirements by using our deduplication technology. You can buy less storage by using our thin provisioning software saving power, cooling, and space.

Manage risk. ■ Meet backup windows with near instantaneous backups. You may experience recovery times faster than the competitors.

Leverage your success. ■ Our services can help you maximize the benefits from your virtualized environment and assist you in proactively resolving potential issues.

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And with an N series solution, you can leverage your DR infrastructure by using it for application testing. You can even use it to nondisruptively test your DR site.

MaxiMize sTorage uTilizaTion

We can help you to maximize asset utilization and reduce costs in several ways. The efficiencies we enable with our thin provisioning and Snapshot™ technologies can help you to slash power, cooling, and space requirements. By using our deduplication technology across your primary, backup, and archival storage, you may be able to slash your VMware storage requirements.

inCrease oPeraTional effiCienCy

Unburden your server administrators from the most labor-intensive tasks with an automated solution for data protection and recovery of virtual machines (VMs). Our additional data management solutions for Oracle,® SQL, Microsoft® Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint,® and SAP® can help you increase productivity by automating application-specific backup and recovery operations.

resPond QuiCkly To Change

To respond to changing business needs, you need to deploy new virtual machines and provision storage quickly . With our solutions, you could slash storage provisioning time with little to no impact on servers. Our nearly instant, low-overhead storage cloning and provisioning are designed to help you to do just that. These same capabilities can also help you shorten test and development cycles from weeks to minutes by enabling instantaneous storage provisioning and cloning of your virtual machines.

build for Today, grow for ToMorrow

We offer a broad family of compatible storage systems and data management software intended to give you unmatched business agility, superior application uptime, simplicity of management, and low TCO. Our storage solutions for VMware environments are designed to simplify data management and save time while leveraging existing investments in heterogeneous storage arrays across FC, iSCSI, NFS, and CIFS. All of our systems offer simultaneous support for both primary-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) environments.

The N series product line isdesigned to integrate easily ■

into complex enterprise environments and simultaneously supports all standard network protocols.

N series solutions also simplifymanagement of your third- ■

party storage arrays with our N series Gateway product line.

Choosing an IBM N series virtualization solution will help you simplify the storage associated with your VMware environment and realize its full potential with storage that matches the efficiency, flexibility, and scalability of virtualized servers.