TOP THREE REASONS WHY
CUSTOMERS DEPLOY EMC VNX WITH
EMC VPLEX
What if you could build a cost effective,
continuously available storage infrastructure?
1 CONTINUOUS OPERATIONS
Continuous Operations with EMC® VNX® and EMC VPLEX® means never having
downtime again for a technology refresh, seamlessly riding through component or
array failures for both planned or unplanned activities and all the benefits associated
with a true active-active local or metro data center within synchronous latencies
(distances). Those benefits include:
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Increased resource utilization by taking a traditional active-passive data
center approach and simply enabling it to be a active-active data center
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Finer gradual storage scaling is now possible by allowing you to leverage
more cost effective smaller platforms and aggregate them in a storage pool
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Improve total cost of ownership by either load balancing across aggregated
storage platforms and/or seamlessly tiering across storage platforms
A VNX with VPLEX delivers on the promise of non-disruptive continuous operations …
whatever the reason. Allowing you to access the SAME information, read or write
access, at the SAME time in two separate locations.
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2 EXTENDING LOCAL VMWARE FUNCTIONALITY
BEYOND A SINGLE ARRAY
VNX with VPLEX provides a foundation for VMware® High Availability (HA), VMotion,
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) over distance
without any added complexity. By simply adding a VPLEX into you environment, you get
all the local benefits of VMware…over distance…without adding any complexity.
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Stretching VMware vSphere HA over distance delivers automatic restart
capabilities over synchronous latencies (geographical distance)
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Simply vMotion VMs across arrays or across data centers for non-disruptive load
balancing while adding VMware DRS will ensure full utilization of compute and
storage resources
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Add VMware SRM and EMC RecoverPoint to combine short and long-distance
protection
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Enabling continuous operation with VMware vSphere FT means zero downtime
for any failover – Zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Zero Recover Time
Objective (RTO)
VPLEX allows one to take a single “host” block storage device in one location and
“distributes” it to provide single disk semantics across two locations. This enables a
“distributed” VMFS datastore to be created on that virtual volume.
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3 EXTENDING ORACLE RAC OVER DISTANCE
Extending Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) over distance with VNX and VPLEX
means you are now able to simply convert your passive (standby) site into an active site
– increasing your hardware and software utilization. VPLEX protects against failures due
to the loss of a storage array, SAN, site, and of course VPLEX itself. VNX with VPLEX
means you’re running at both sites simultaneously, the vast majority of disaster recovery
testing is already running for you—24 hours a day.
It means:
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Increased hardware and software utilization rates
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Zero downtime for maintenance
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Simplified Oracle RAC over extended distance
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No rebuilds after failures and no need for host based mirroring
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