Tuesday, 13 June 2006
VMware Infrastructure 3 Adds Muscle to Data Centers
|
| |
VMware Infrastructure 3, the new version of VMware's infrastructure virtualization software suite is expected to enable systems infrastructure capabilities for entire farms of servers and storage, independent of the application/operating system workloads and of the underlying hardware... |
| |
|
| |
VMware Infrastructure 3, the new version of VMware's infrastructure virtualization software suite is expected to enable systems infrastructure capabilities for entire farms of servers and storage, independent of the application/operating system workloads and of the underlying hardware. VMware Infrastructure 3 builds upon the VMware ESX Server with Virtual SMP and VirtualCenter with VMotion technology. It incorporates four new products - VMware VMFS, a next generation Distributed File System; VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS); VMware High Availability (HA); and VMware Consolidated Backup.
With VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware is hoping to usher in a new era for data centers where industry-standard infrastructure farms can be managed as a shared utility and dynamically allocated to different business units or projects. New capacity can be added or removed non-disruptively based on business demand. Applications can be migrated automatically to available hardware resources. Hardware failures can be automatically overcome with minimal disruption. Business data can be protected with minimal impact to production SLAs. Applications can be provisioned instantly and recovered at the same or remote locations easily regardless of the operating system and hardware.
“We are very excited that VMware is turning the vision of the automated, self-optimizing data center into reality. Using VMware Infrastructure enterprise-wide since January 2005, Enbridge Energy has streamlined its IT infrastructure, saving more than USD 1 million in hardware costs,” said Ed Baldwin, senior network engineer for Enbridge Energy Company, Inc., a leader in energy transportation and a VMware Infrastructure 3 beta customer.
“Virtualization is rapidly evolving from being a server consolidation tool to becoming the strategic technology foundation for IT Infrastructure,” said Stephen Elliot, research manager at IDC. “While the cost savings are obvious, sophisticated enterprise IT organizations are starting to deliver end-to-end virtual infrastructure that uses standardized management processes and provides a compelling answer to the CIO’s need for an agile, efficient and dynamic infrastructure that is radically simple to operate.”
VMware Infrastructure 3 has been in beta since October, 2005. VMware Infrastructure 3 will be available this month.
Related Stories
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
