EMC launches breakthrough Vplex Virtual storage technology

At the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/14451.html ">EMC World 2010 Conference, EMC launched the Vplex virtual storage technology." Vplex is a groundbreaking new technology that optimizes data access and data movement in a new way. Ultimately, this technology will allow businesses to move thousands of virtual machines and petabytes of information across thousands of of kilometres, to arrange batch tasks in different locations, to achieve lower energy costs, to easily circumvent regional it operational disasters, and to transform dynamic workloads based on the time zone of the workday.

The key to virtual storage is the federation of distributed storage arrays, which is also a breakthrough technology brought about by Vplex. The Federation can centralize the resources of multiple storage systems locally or offsite, achieving collaboration, not only more efficient than its physical predecessor, but also helping IT organizations to assemble distributed data centers and service providers into a large virtual data center.

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The introduction of EMC Vplex is a key step in advancing private cloud building and IT services. EMC Vplex integrates extended clusters, advanced data caching, consistent intelligent distributed caching, and enables access and sharing of data across hosts, across clusters, across data centers. At the same time, Vplex can protect existing 820.html > storage architectures and software investments through "array recognition", while adding new capabilities and pooling resources across the federation. EMC's unique consistent distributed caching technology enables real-time, cross-regional, and massive information migrations to overcome latency, bandwidth, and consistency challenges.

Breakthrough V-plex Technology: Virtual data Center

This year EMC world presented virtual storage. Physical storage or building physical data centers based on physical storage there is a big flaw that the physical center has boundaries, in other words, the data in one physical storage device wants to migrate to another device, or data center A's data wants to migrate to Datacenter B. Solutions based on this storage are complex and difficult to do. To solve this problem, we require storage to have the ability to free information from physical storage, to allow information to flow across arrays and across data centers, and EMC regards this storage technology as a virtual storage that is different from storage virtualization.

The traditional data center operation mode is a stand-alone application deployed on separate servers, each using separate storage, the so-called physical storage (physical data center). If the idea of the virtual data center to transform, first is to do the integration, the purpose is to break the boundaries within the server, sharing physical resources. With EMC fast, you can break storage boundaries within your data center. You can implement automatic provisioning within the array, which is done according to the needs of the user. You can further transition to the resource collaboration pool. This is a more cloud-like state, through the virtual server cluster technology can enable the server and the data center and physical hardware separation, so that applications can flow across the data center.

The evolution of traditional data center to Virtual data center

Combined with virtual server and virtual storage technology, the application and data can be freed from the physical resources, all the resources become on demand to be paid resources, application plus data is according to the need to select the resources to use and trans-regional circulation, this is in fact the private cloud technology model.

The release of the EMC Vplex Technology is a breakthrough technology, just like a virtual server change physical server, EMC Vplex with other EMC virtual storage technologies such as fast (automated storage tiering), is triggering a storage array revolution, shifting from dedicated single machines to efficient, flexible, Centralized resources for multiple operating environments, geographically shared. The Federation of Computing and storage resources enables virtualization and single resource management for all data centers.

The key to virtual storage is the federation of distributed storage arrays, which is also a breakthrough technology brought about by the new Vplex. The Federation can centralize the resources of multiple storage systems locally or offsite, achieving collaboration, not only more efficient than its physical predecessor, but also helping IT organizations to assemble distributed data centers and service providers into a large virtual data center.