Server consolidation and virtualization have become critical to the enterprise and are driving data center rearchitecture. While you can experience dramatic improvements in server utilization and manageability by using virtualization software, these benefits place a much higher demand on storage subsystems to support higher I/O rates, greater capacity, and faster nondisruptive provisioning, backups, and restores. A complete virtualization or consolidation strategy should consider not only servers, but storage as well.
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Resources
Building a Highly Virtualized Storage Environment WEBCAST
-- In this webcast, Enterprise Strategy Group's Steve Duplessie discusses important storage virtualization technologies within a storage system and why highly virtualized storage systems are valuable today -- and will be vital in the future.
Optimize Your Business Applications with a Server-to-Storage Virtualized Infrastructure WEBCAST
-- Deploying virtualization presents a number of challenges for storage infrastructures. View this Webcast to learn how you can overcome these problems by using complementary solutions with VMware to improve flexibility, reduce provisioning time and more.
Four Challenges to Making Server and Storage Virtualization Work WEBCAST
-- Attend this Expert Webcast to learn how your organization can leverage server virtualization as a true approach for enabling a new level of cost savings and operational efficiency in the data center.
The Continued Evolution of Storage Virtualization VIDEOCAST
-- In this expert Videocast, Taneja Group Analyst and virtualization expert Steve Norall gets down to the nitty gritty in terms of storage virtualization.
NetApp Backup Solutions for Vmware Environments PRODUCT LITERATURE
-- VMware® ESX Server supports several different backup methods, including the agent-based, server-free backup provided by VMware Consolidated Backup.
NetApp Disaster Recovery for VMware Environments PRODUCT LITERATURE
-- NetApp is the natural choice when it comes to selecting a storage and data management partner to implement and support your virtualized server environments.
About Arrow ECS
This Virtualization Resource Center is brought to you by Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS), a $5 billion business segment of Arrow Electronics [NYSE: ARW], a Fortune 200 company. As a distributor of NetApp storage products, services and solutions, the Arrow ECS Storage Group is pleased to connect you with experienced NetApp business partners in your area who can help you plan and manage your server and storage virtualization Visit the Resource Center often for updates and best practices. http://www.arrowecs.com
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