TOP REASONS WHY CUSTOMERS VIRTUALIZE THEIR SERVERS WITH EMC VSPEX

TOP REASONS WHY CUSTOMERS VIRTUALIZE
THEIR SERVERS WITH EMC VSPEX
Transform your environment with simple, efficient, and
flexible virtualization solutions
The EMC® VSPEX™ is a flexible architecture solution that allows IT to quickly and consistently deploy a virtualized
infrastructure to consolidate servers and applications that help reduce capital and operational expenses.
SIMPLIFY YOUR ENVIRONMENT
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Flexible architectures to suit your IT needs
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Simplify management
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VSPEX solutions are built with proven best-in-class technologies to create complete, modular, pre-validated
virtualization offerings that allow for flexibility, faster deployments, greater efficiency, and lower risk in your IT
transformation. Built on a highly flexible EMC storage and backup architecture, VSPEX enables you to combine
industry-leading compute, network, and virtualization technologies into a pre-validated infrastructure. Predictable
levels of performance eliminate the planning, sizing, and configuration burden of moving from a physical to virtual
server environment.
Manage your entire virtual server infrastructure from a single point of control. Using VMware® vSphere® or
Microsoft® System Center, your organization can accelerate provisioning time, manage virtual machines from a
central location, and monitor the performance of virtual machines and their hosts. Add storage with ease with EMC
Unisphere™ provisioning wizards that apply best practices to simplify the process. Provision 500 Microsoft Exchange
mailboxes in less than two minutes. Set up one terabyte VMware or Hyper-V™ datastore in 10 minutes.
Simplify backup and recovery with one solution built for virtual
environments
Simplify virtual machine backup and recoveries with EMC Avamar® and EMC Data Domain®, and you’ll have one
solution to protect your VMware, Hyper-V, and physical environments. Implement comprehensive backup at both the
guest and image level. Recovery is fast and easy with file-level restore or full bare metal VMDK restore—all in a
single step. Plus, you can further simplify VMware protection with automated virtual machine discovery, policy
assignment, and tracking via integration with VMware vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) and vCenter™.
Improve administrator productivity
Provide application-aware storage provisioning from within the application management interface in different
hypervisor environments.
Enable administrators to manage storage provisioning for Microsoft Hyper-V and SharePoint® from the Microsoft
Windows® operating environment using EMC Storage Integrator (ESI), and reduce time to provision by 75 percent.
ESI lets Windows and application administrators provision storage for Hyper-V environments and map a Hyper-V
environment to EMC storage.
Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI), the EMC Plug-in framework for VMware vSphere 5 gives you greater insight than ever
before into the storage mapping and connectivity details right from vCenter. Add storage quickly and easily for your
virtual machines from vCenter with VSI. With VSI you can leverage the array’s storage efficiencies such as
compression and fast clone for both block and NFS based datastores.
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IMPROVE YOUR ENVIROMENT AND ACHIEVE HIGHER AVAILABILITY
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Application high availability and enhancement
Realize application high availability with VMware’s HA and vMotion®, along with Microsoft’s Quick Migration, to
eliminate or reduce planned downtime and unplanned outages. The EMC VNX® series provides for DVR-like
application consistent snap shots for point-in-time recoverability. With EMC FAST VP (Fully Automated Storage
Tiering for Virtual Pools), you can dynamically tune and increase service levels. Increase database performance by
deploying EMC FAST Cache and increase Oracle IOPs by 180 percent. Run virtualized Microsoft SQL® databases three
times faster, and manage and tune virtualized SQL databases in 80 percent less time.
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Provision application storage on demand
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Speed up your backups
Add unified storage on demand with the VNX series. Recapture valuable storage capacity and reduce the data
footprint by up to 50 percent with the EMC VNX series’ built-in features such as thin provisioning, file deduplication,
and compression.
Accelerate virtual server backup times from days to minutes by reducing network and CPU utilization with EMC
Avamar’s variable-length, client-side deduplication. Get faster VMware image restores by recovering only the needed
data instead of an entire virtual machine with EMC Avamar—the industry’s only solution that leverages VMware’s
Changed Block Tracking for both backup and recovery.
REDUCE COST IN YOUR ENVIRONMENT
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Automate storage optimization
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Save on backup and DR costs with deduplication
Optimize storage utilization and lower overall costs—regardless of application type or data age—by automatically
moving data based upon workload with FAST VP.
Reduce backup storage requirements for virtual environments by 10 to 30 times, and network usage by 99 percent,
with EMC Avamar and Data Domain. In addition, Avamar integration with VADP and vCenter greatly reduces
administrative costs.
Contact Us
To learn more about how EMC products,
services, and solutions can help solve your
business and IT challenges, contact your
local representative or authorized reseller,
or visit us at www.EMC.com.
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