EMC ProSphere Transforms Storage Management Across Physical and VMware
Virtualized Environments
ProSphere Enables Customers to Visualize, Analyze and Optimize Storage
in Just Two Clicks
News Summary:
* Today EMC announced enhancements to EMC® ProSphere™ storage resource
management software. Now – in just two clicks – EMC ProSphere
enables IT organizations to understand capacity usage and trends,
identify issues and assess impact, and analyze performance across
physical and VMware virtualized environments.
* EMC ProSphere now supports EMC FAST VP™ (Fully Automated Storage
Tiering for Virtual Pools), enabling customers to improve storage
utilization through intuitive capacity dashboards and reporting, while
proactively monitoring capacity consumption and service levels.
* EMC ProSphere has extended its monitoring and alerting capabilities,
which now aggregates alerts from EMC Symmetrix VMAX/VMAXe and EMC VNX
unified storage arrays, and displays the context required to quickly
assess the impact to meet storage service levels.
* EMC ProSphere enables administrators to visualize, analyze and
optimize the storage environment to easily transform storage management
and ensure consistent, timely and cost-effective access to information.
Full Story:
HOPKINTON, Mass. – March 13, 2012 – EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC)
today announced enhancements to EMC ProSphere storage resource
management software, enabling customers to understand how capacity is
being used, track consumption trends to know when more storage will be
required, and receive automated alerts across the storage environment to
identify issues and quickly assess their impact– in just two clicks.
The new capacity dashboards and reporting capabilities also feature new
integration with EMC FAST VP. As enterprises remain focused on
controlling the cost of rapid data growth, technologies like EMC
ProSphere and EMC FAST VP help increase utilization, reduce storage
costs, improve performance levels, and create a more agile IT
environment.
ProSphere enables IT Transformation in both physical and virtual
worlds, allowing customers to manage IT-as-a-Service by monitoring and
analyzing service levels from end-to-end. ProSphere enables customers
to:
* Visualize relationships and application dependencies across physical
and virtual environment: ProSphere enables users to understand the
complex relationships and dependencies between applications and storage
services. This includes the ability to quickly spot performance,
availability and configuration issues to identify situations that could
impact service levels. ProSphere’s federated architecture consolidates
the view to a single pane of glass across data centre sites.
* Analyze storage services to improve services levels: ProSphere helps
customers quickly analyze and troubleshoot performance issues from the
virtual guest down through the storage layers. It automatically tracks
changes and analyzes compliance with configuration best practices and
interoperability guidelines to ensure the environment is always
configured to meet service level expectations. It also enables users to
analyze alerts to quickly assess impact and take action.
* Optimize the storage infrastructure: ProSphere provides customers
with the tools to optimize their storage infrastructure to better
control storage costs. It tracks where and how capacity is consumed by
service level, location and array. It helps administrators find
available and reclaimable capacity to increase utilization. Trending
analysis improves planning processes to ensure the right tier of
capacity, at the right time, in the right location to meet business
objectives. Tight integration with FAST VP allows customers to expand
their use of this technology to further optimize their investments in
EMC storage.
New Integration with FAST VP
EMC FAST VP allows IT to take a policy-based approach toward delivering
IT as a service. With data growing rapidly, FAST VP is being adopted
(see related news release
(
http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120206-02.htm)) by EMC
customers because of its ability to improve performance and efficiency.
New integration between ProSphere and FAST VP automatically tracks the
consumption of virtual pools to identify when new capacity will be
required. This facilitates just-in-time purchasing to lower storage
acquisition costs. It also displays performance trends from the virtual
or physical host to virtual storage devices to identify the impact of
FAST VP at the application level, enabling organizations to make more
effective storage tiering decisions. This significantly enhances IT’s
ability to lower costs while meeting or exceeding service level
objectives.
ProSphere’s federated and scalable architecture – with the ability
to manage more than 1.1 million volumes, 36,000 SAN ports, and 18,000
hosts – is designed to scale to meet the needs of small enterprises to
the world’s largest data centres. ProSphere’s intuitive user
interface is optimized to improve productivity in growing environments
that are rapidly adopting virtualization. Extensive end-to-end
visualization in physical and virtual environments helps storage teams
understand application to storage dependencies across their data centre.
Customer Quotes
Sarel Theron, Storage Administrator, Internet Solutions
“ProSphere’s user interface is clean, simple to navigate and
relevant. You experience this at first logon with a dashboard that
presents you with a Storage Administrator’s most important information
at his finger tips.”
George Nye, Storage & Data Protection Services Engineer III, Hospital
of Saint Raphael
“The capacity views are extensive, they let me know exactly what I
have, how it’s used, and with the trending analysis clearly shows when
I need to make the next storage purchase.”
Partner Quote
Hatem Naguib, Vice President, Alliances, VMware
“ProSphere’s integration with VMware vSphere® provides storage
administrators with a holistic view of their storage infrastructure.
Being able to quickly understand application dependencies, resource
utilization and service levels – and take action in just a few clicks
– is important. ProSphere in a VMware environment will enable
customers to control the cost of storage while improving storage
levels.”
Industry Analyst Quote
Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
“As enterprise customers’ virtual environments flourish, they need
an SRM solution – like EMC ProSphere – that assures storage service
levels across the virtual infrastructure, controls the cost of capacity
growth, and optimizes storage services to align with business
objectives.”
EMC Executive Quote
Jay Mastaj, Senior Vice President and General Manager, EMC
Infrastructure Management Group
“Our customers’ biggest challenge today is controlling the costs of
rapid data growth, while ensuring consistent service levels in both
physical and virtual environments. EMC is committed to helping customers
transform their IT infrastructures, and a huge piece of this is managing
growth while reducing complexity. The new capacity dashboards and
reporting in ProSphere will enhance customers’ ability to control the
costs of rapid data growth. Integration with VMware and FAST VP will
help organizations get the most of their investments in EMC storage as
they expand their use of virtualization. And, the new monitoring
capabilities will allow organizations to understand the health and
performance of their storage infrastructure.”
Additional Resources:
* Read the ProSphere data sheet
(
http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/data-sheet/h8810-prosphere-ds.pdf)
* Hear the EMC video
(
http://www.emc.com/collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/jay-mastaj-emc-prosphere-1.5-announcement.htm)
* Read the Enterprise Strategy Group paper
(
http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-r eports/esg-prosphere-storagemngtcloud-ar.pdf%20)
* Read the Managed View blog (
http://bit.ly/xelzsV)
* Watch the Enterprise Strategy Group video
(
http://www.emc.com/collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/esg-prosphere-cloud-video.htm)
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service
providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service.
Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through
innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud
computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze
their most valuable asset –information –in a more agile, trusted and
cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found
atwww.EMC.com.
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www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.
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