VSS Monitoring Implements Maxta Distributed VM Storage Platform

Maxta, Inc. announced that VSS Monitoring, Inc., a Danaher company (Fortune 200 company) and in network packet brokers (NPB), has implemented its resilient, scalable distributed VM Storage platform (MxSP).

VSS monitoring’s advantage

MxSP improves the performance, automation and ease of use of VSS Monitoring’s virtualized infrastructure to satisfy current needs and expected future growth of its engineering IT infrastructure.

VSS Monitoring’s engineering group runs a diverse set of applications in a vSphere environment, including testing and development of its solutions. The virtualized environment is planned to grow over time and several VMs are expected to require high storage performance.

To extend the life of its engineering IT infrastructure beyond the initial 3-year expectancy, VSS Monitoring looked for a way to improve storage performance without spending an unreasonable amount of money. After evaluating several shared storage array options, the company chose MxSP, which provides,the features and functions it needs for 20% of the acquisition cost of the other options.

“The test and development VMs would require a high amount of IO/s and unfortunately with a shared architecture it would cause a performance hit to all of our VMs in the cluster,” said Mike Leland, VSS Monitoring data center engineer. “The performance of our system with Maxta’s software platform is orders of magnitude faster. We’re looking at about twice as many IO/s depending on the workload. It’s a large improvement over what we had before as far as storage performance. The unlimited number of time/performance/capacity efficient snapshots and zero-copy clones simplifies the setup and management of testing and development environments.”

Leland was also impressed noted with Maxta’s ease of use and installation. Elimination of storage provisioning in addition to the VM-centric approach of MxSP as well as the integration into vSphere client simplified IT management. Maxta provided VSS Monitoring a better solution along with an attractive CAPEX and OPEX. Additional enterprise features, such as HA, VM-level snapshots and cloning, made Maxta a compelling option.

“The Maxta Storage Platform meets the storage needs of even the most-demanding test-and-development environments by reducing complexity and cost while improving productivity and time to market,” said Yoram Novick, CEO and founder, Maxta. “By providing VSS Monitoring with the ability to meet its objectives while staying within budget, we were able to help them improve performance and simplify IT.”

The Maxta Storage Platform is a hypervisor-agnostic implementation of enterprise storage for the virtual data center. It integrates with server virtualization at all levels from user interface to data management, while supporting all possible deployments of virtual data centers, including private, public and hybrid clouds. Through its software-only solution, Maxta turns standard servers into a converged compute and storage solution. This results in simplicity and economics over external storage arrays.