EMC VNX Accelerates VMware View 5.0 – Boots 500 Desktops in Five Minutes; EMC Shatters Storage Performance Limits in VMware vSphere(R) Virtual and Cloud Environments

 

EMC VNX Accelerates VMware View 5.0 – Boots 500 Desktops in Five
Minutes

EMC Unified Storage Simply, Efficiently and Powerfully Helps Customers
Exploit the Benefits of Desktop Virtualization and FLASH

VMWORLD 2011 – LAS VEGAS – August 30, 2011 – Today at VMworld®
2011,EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the number one choice of customers for
information infrastructure in VMware® virtualized
(http://canada.emc.com/products/category/virtualization.htm) and
cloud environments according to a recent Wikibon
(http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/VMware_Storage_Integration_Journey_Checkpoint)
survey, today extended its leadership with added support of EMC® VNX®
unified storage
(http://canada.emc.com/microsites/unified/unifiedstorage.htm) for
VMware View™ 5 (also announced today by VMware). The EMC VNX Family –
including EMC VNX (http://canada.emc.com/products/series/vnx-series.htm)
and EMC VNXe® (http://canada.emc.com/products/series/vnxe-series.htm)
– support VMware View deployments in businesses of any size and
scale – ranging from hundreds to thousands of desktops.

The EMC VNX Family will deliver VMware View
(http://canada.emc.com/solutions/application-environment/vmware/vmware-view-virtual-desktops.htm)
5 customers new levels of performance, efficiency, and simplicity, and
will enable customers to:

* Boost Performance during log-in storms. Early test results have shown
the ability to boot 500 VMware View 5.0 desktops on VMware vSphere® 5
over NFS to steady state – in five minutes. This is 40 per cent faster
than previous published VNX and FAST Suite results on VMware View 4.5,
and enabled by EMC VNX and the EMC FAST (Fully Automated Storage
Tiering) Suite.
* Maximize Efficiency by leveraging the EMC FAST Suite to deliver the
highest performance and capacity efficiency – automatically for VMware
View 5. EMC FAST Cache allows customers to significantly reduce the
number of drives used in a VMware View environment while providing
exceptionally fast boot time performance. Additionally, customers can
further reduce their storage space requirements in VMware View
deployments with EMC VNX deduplication capabilities.
* Simplify Management by deploying VMware View 5 with confidence
whether in FC, FCoE, iSCSI or NFS environments.

“The EMC VNX Family is designed from the ground-up to optimize
virtual environments. We’ve seen great results in early testing with
VMware View 5, and look forward to helping customers to deploy VMware
View 5 in environments ranging from hundreds to thousands of
desktops,” said Eric Herzog, Vice President, Unified Storage
Division at EMC. “Applying EMC’s unique FAST technology to a virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI) enables customers to maximize the full
potential of their VMware View deployment. With EMC VNX, SMBs to
enterprises can benefit from the solution’s simplicity, efficiency,
performance and affordability.”

EMC Global Services Help Customers Achieve Virtual Desktop Strategy

In addition to new support of VMware View 5 with the VNX Family,
EMC’s professional services experts are delivering Desktop
Virtualization Services
(http://canada.emc.com/services/consulting/private-cloud-virtualization/expertise/virtual-desktop-infrastructure.htm)
to help customers plan, design, and implement desktop computing
environments that are secure, compliant and flexible enough to meet the
needs of their businesses. Experienced and VMware-certified experts have
all the virtualization skills required to ensure a successful
implementation, including desktop deployment, security, systems
management, and storage.

Additional Resources

* Read
(http://canada.emc.c
om/collateral/hardware/technical-documentation/h8283-view-vnx-vsphere-psg.pdf)
the EMC VMware View 4.6 Proven Solution Paper

* Read and interact with theVirtual Geek
(http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/) Blog

* Read (http://canada.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110817-02.htm) or
watch () to hear why EMC
customer, Alvarado School District, choseEMC VNX unified storage on its
way to achieving a 100 per cent virtualized server environment and roll
out a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to students.

* Read the VMware Storage Integration Journey Checkpoint
(http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/VMware_Storage_Integration_Journey_Checkpoint)
article from Wikibon

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 at
www.EMC.com.

EMC Canada (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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Mike Martin/Michelle Chang
StrategicAmpersand
416-961-5595
mike@stratamp.com
michelle@stratamp.com


EMC and VNX are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation
in the United States and other countries. VMware, VMware View, VMware
vSphere and VMworld are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of
VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. The use of
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EMC Shatters Storage Performance Limits in VMware vSphere® Virtual and
Cloud Environments

Accelerates Customers’ Journey to the Cloud; Achieves More Than
1,000,000 IOPS and 10 GBps In VMware vSphere® 5 Environments

VMWORLD 2011 – LAS VEGAS – August 30, 2011 – EMC Corporation
(NYSE:EMC), the number one choice of customers for information
infrastructure
(http://canada.emc.com/solutions/business-need/virtualizing-information-infrastructure/index.htm)
in VMware virtual and cloud environments according to a recent Wikibon
survey
(http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/VMware_Storage_Integration_Journey_Checkpoint),
today announced that it has shattered the performance limits it
previously set for storage throughput and bandwidth in a VMware vSphere®
5 environment. With performance and scalability parameters now stretched
out even further, EMC is accelerating customers’ journey to the cloud
by removing potential performance-oriented barriers for organizations as
they virtualize their mission-critical applications.

Performance testing of an EMC® Symmetrix® VMAX® storage system with
VMware vSphere 5 achieved in excess of 1,000,000 input/output operations
per second (IOPS), which is three times the previous ceiling of 364,000
IOPS achieved by utilizing three EMC CLARiiON CX4 storage systems with
VMware vSphere 4. The Symmetrix VMAX system was configured with eight
engines and 960 disk drives. The testing showed that at peak load the
Symmetrix VMAX was able to support a VM-level response time of two
milliseconds and illustrated the ability of both VMware vSphere 5 and
the Symmetrix VMAX to leverage the scaling and performance of the latest
Intel Xeon processors and powerful Emulex Lightpulse Host Bus Adapters.
With this new storage performance level, organizations can now
confidently virtualize even
 their largest online transaction processing
(OLTP) applications, with the most stringent workloads and lowest
latency service level agreements at a lower cost while gaining greater
agility than in a traditional physical environment.

Bandwidth testing of a single EMC VNX™ unified storage system with
VMware vSphere 5 achieved a workload of 10GBps, over 3.5 times more than
the previous VMware vSphere limit which required three EMC CLARiiON CX4
arrays, illustrating the power of a VNX system. The test also highlights
the bandwidth, performance, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness of
converged storage networks – and the new VMware vSphere 5 software
FCoE initiator coupled with the Intel x520 network interface. The most
extreme bandwidth workloads including Big Data analytics, data
warehousing and media, can be virtualized on the latest technologies
from EMC and VMware and gain lower costs and greater agility than a
physical approach.

EMC offers
(http://canada.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110712-01.htm)
broad technology support and the industry’s most comprehensive
integration with VMware vSphere 5 and cloud infrastructure suite. The
combination of EMC’s industry-leading products, solutions and services
with VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies
accelerates the customer journey to the cloud – lowering IT costs and
improving business agility.

“VMware and EMC are committed to delivering high-performance
solutions that can easily handle the most demanding workloads,” said
Hatem Naguib, Vice President, Alliances, VMware. “EMC storage systems
are designed to take advantage of the significant performance and
bandwidth improvements in the new VMware vSphere® 5, enabling customers
to virtualize their business-critical applications with confidence.”

“The performance benchmark pushes the limits of scalability in
virtual and cloud environments. Customers can now confidently virtualize
even their most demanding mission critical applications knowing that
their investments in EMC and VMware vSphere® infrastructure will be able
to grow with them,” said EMC’s Chad Sakac, Vice President, VMware
Technical Alliance.

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 at
www.EMC.com.

EMC Canada (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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For more information contact:
Mike Martin/Michelle Chang
StrategicAmpersand
416-961-5595
mike@stratamp.com
michelle@stratamp.com


EMC, Symmetrix, VMAX, VNX, and CLARiiON are trademarks or registered
trademarks of EMC Corporation. All other trademarks used are the
property of their respective owners.

VMware and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks
of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. The use
of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal
partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.


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