Fluid Data Storage

Dell Powervault MD in a VMware Environment

Kyle Walczak Planner

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Optimize VMware with innovative storage designed for virtualization.

Modern, virtual architecture

Grow-with-you systems, licensing

Intelligent data management

Automated block and file tiering

Single solution

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Accelerate virtualization with integration from View to vCenter.

Dozens of engineering integrations

Automated administration

Bi-directional management

Quick VM creation

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Manage the entire data lifecycle for virtualized apps with Fluid Data

Primary to archive; small to enterprise

Right-size capacity and performance

Systems, software and service

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PowerVault MD32/36 Series of Arrays

Commonality of components

Multi-generational array management

DAS, SAN scalability

Mix and match drive sizes and speeds

Supports SAS, NL-SAS, SED or SED

Virtualization certified & ready

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PowerVault MD vCenterPlug-in 5.0

Enables configuration of MD series

Single pane of glass management

Automate storage with vSphere integration

Lowers Administration cost

Simple configuration, provisioning, monitoring

Facilitates efficiency in the data center

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PowerVault MD Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)

Recovery Solution to simplify IT

Automated array-based remote mirroring

Allows testing of DR plan with no downtime

Supports VMware 5.0 & 4.1

Certified with MD Fibre Channel arrays

Discover local storage systems &LUNs

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PowerVault MD VMware aware Storage APIs (VASA)

Communicates with VMware directly

Identifies characteristics of storage

Speed, capacity, etc. are monitored

Supports VMware 5.0 & 4.1

Policy-based VM storage management

Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler

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