Johannesburg, 29 Jul 2015
Storage integration for VMware cannot be defined with just a few key characteristics. There has to be a good balance of features, functions, reliability, ease of use, integration, performance and, of course, cost. The following represents nine key items that any VMware data centre manager should consider when choosing storage to support a virtualised infrastructure.
Simple design - Storage for a VMware environment should be virtualised for flexibility and efficiency. InfiniBox was designed using modern virtualisation technologies. Under the cover, the entire capacity is virtualised to small portions of the data and managed in a distributed fashion across its storage nodes in an all-active grid fashion.
From a VMware perspective (as well as an admin perspective), there is no need for any sort of optimisation or tuning. All that is needed is to present capacity to the virtualised servers. All the hard tasks of data placement, performance, policy making and reliability are managed completely by the storage system itself. In other words, there is no need to decide what type of RAID groups, size of RAID groups, pools or extents are optimal for any given workload. That is all done for you.
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