EMC Doubles Distance – 200km – Between Active-Active Data Centers

EMC
Corporation
extended its lead as the #1 storage for VMware environments by
doubling the distance supported for moving VMware vSPhere vMotion
workloads between active-active data centers with EMC
VPLEX
virtual storage, and announcing new capabilities that enable
customers to think differently about how they share data in VMware
hybrid clouds to eliminate data center boundaries while transforming
their IT infrastructure.

VPLEX Metro has been qualified by EMC to support
vSphere vMotion workload mobility over twice the distance (up to 200
km with up-to 10 ms round-trip latency) with vSphere
enhancements. For instance, a data center in New York can now move
its vSphere vMotion application workload to Philadelphia.
VMware workload mobility is becoming a differentiating capability for
IT transformation. VPLEX optimizes the benefits of vSphere
vMotion with its ability to enable active-active access to data
enabling application mobility with minimum effort and disruption.

Through a single offering that packages EMC
RecoverPoint CDP software with VPLEX,
customers can deploy an active-active data center environment with
point-in-time protection. VPLEX enables HA,
active-active, geographically distributed virtual data centers
pooling two data centers together to enable mobility, availability
and collaboration for their data without disruption. In addition,
capabilities of VPLEX and RecoverPoint now extend the benefits of
active-active to the IP WAN. This provides new levels of network
utilization, availability and intelligence for immediate resolution
to planned and unplanned changes in the network.

Highlights

• Data Mobility: vSphere customers can virtualize server resources
  encapsulating applications into virtual machines that can be moved
  from one server to the next without downtime using vSphere vMotion.
  VPLEX complements this capability by moving the corresponding storage
  resources to provide immediate and non-disruptive data mobility over
  distance. With latency support, EMC has qualified that together the
  two technologies help ensure that updated vSphere vMotion data
  can be in two places at the same time during a move with twice the
  distance as before.

• Simplified Offering: By
  combining VPLEX and RecoverPoint into a single offering, customers
  have more choice and can benefit from VPLEX’S ability to leverage the
  mobility and data availability with the data protection capabilities
  of RecoverPoint to more easily deploy a hybrid cloud. The offering
  enables availability between two data centers.

• Network Availability and Utilization:
  VPLEX now offers increased utilization of bandwidth in multiple-link
  configurations simultaneously through support for EMC RAPIDPath
  technology, which transforms VPLEX and RecoverPoint WAN connectivity
  from active-passive to active-active. This shift provides continuous
  network availability in the case of link failure. In the event of a
  failure, VPLEX has the capability to route traffic over the other
  link without breaking network connectivity or requiring a WAN
  failover.

Giovanni Savarese, CIO, Moby S.p.A., said: "Moby is Italy’s leader in
maritime transportation. Information feeds Moby’s ability to
intelligently invest in new ships and routes, deliver new innovative
services, distribution and pricing strategies and better serve our
customers. We’ve selected EMC to help us better protect, access and
share information in our VMware vSphere virtualized environment. With
solutions like VPLEX Metro Express Edition and industry leading
integration with VMware EMC is helping Moby to transform our IT
infrastructure and continue evolving our VMware virtualized
environment."

Bogomil Balkansky, SVP, Cloud
Infrastructure Products, VMware, said: "Workload mobility enabled
by VMware vSphere vMotion has been a mainstay of the virtualized
datacenter since 2003, and has allowed customers of all sizes to
avoid countless hours of down time and business disruption. Now VPLEX
is a critical ingredient of the next generation of workload mobility
across long distances and multiple data centers with the enterprise
class data availability and protection needed for business-critical
applications. Workload mobility across datacenters represents an
important industry milestone in innovation, and delivers on the
promise of cloud for greater flexibility and business agility."

Brian Gallagher, President, Enterprise Storage Division,
EMC, said: "We’ve seen great adoption
of VPLEX by enterprise customers that want to exploit the benefits of
highly available active-active data centers. These latest innovations
build even more value into an industry-unique technology to provide
customers with even more value to their VMware environments, as well
as a new single offering that makes it easier than ever to benefit
from a VMware hybrid cloud. When EMC introduced VPLEX in 2010, we
created a new market. These new capabilities further enable customers
with fast and reliable access to information eliminates data center
boundaries and provides enterprise-class protection for
mission-critical data and applications."

All
capabilities and functionality announced are
available worldwide.