EMC Embraces vSphere 6

EMC Corporation announced support for vSphere 6 within its product and solution roadmap and development cycle, enabling customers to leverage its storage platforms to virtualize scale-up and scale-out applications with confidence, redefine availability, and simplify the virtual data center.

Storage platforms including VMAX, VNX, VNXe, VPLEX and XtremIO will offer support for vSphere 6 this quarter. Later this year EMC will also extend key vSphere 6 capabilities across additional EMC storage platforms and hybrid cloud solutions.

EMC storage platforms supporting VMware environments will leverage a variety of vSphere 6 capabilities designed to help drive down data center cost, increase system and application uptime, and simplify the way IT runs the data center.

Storage Platforms Supporting vSphere 6:

VMAX3: Architected for massive scale and delivering trusted data services across the storage infrastructure, VMAX3 service level-based management allows vSphere administrators to set and deliver performance targets for applications and provides enterprise data services on a per application basis.
VNX/VNXe: VNX/VNXe and vSphere 6 combine for efficiency and flexibility in the midrange by providing VM-level copy, data deduplication, and workload mobility over distance.
VPLEX: Accelerated IO/s at low latencies designed to ensure non-stop operations and continuous availability of scale-up and scale-out applications virtualized with vSphere 6.
XtremIO: Enabling transformational workload consolidation and agility benefits through a scale-out all-flash array, it engineered to enable the entire landscapes of diverse tier 1 applications like databases and SAP to be consolidated in vSphere 6 and without risking their SLAs. Beyond unmatched infrastructure simplification, this enables instant copies for real-time analytics, DBaaS, and application admin self-service.

VMware Capabilities to Enhance Hybrid cloud Environments
Features within vSphere 6 are designed to enable enhanced compute, management and storage capabilities to support both traditional and next-generation applications. EMC believes a number of new features in vSphere 6 may also benefit hybrid cloud environments, including:

vRealize Business 6.0 Standard and vRealize Operations 6.0 within VMware vCloud Suite 6 offer cost transparency and monitoring capabilities respectively for the private cloud and can be extended to the public cloud.
VMware vRealize Automation public cloud extensions can simplify the process for provisioning and managing workloads in the public cloud.
vSphere Common Library for Content Storage and Management can enable customers greater scalability and more unified management across geographically distributed private and public clouds.
Virtual Graphics Processing Unit (vGPU) is designed to accelerate graphics processing in VDI and hybrid cloud environments.
VMware Integrated OpenStack distribution can enable enterprise-grade OpenStack within hybrid cloud environments running in parallel on VMware infrastructure.
vSphere Virtual Volumes enables deeper levels of integration between vSphere and storage arrays and can extend Software-Defined Storage policy automation to hybrid cloud environments and supported EMC storage platforms. This feature is designed to offer increased control of storage operations and data services at the VM level while maintaining all the gold-standard information storage performance, protection and management inherent within EMC storage platforms.
Customers can leverage EMC Elastic cloud Storage to provide Object Storage capabilities for OpenStack environments using VMware Integrated OpenStack.

Storage platforms including VMAX, VNX, VNXe, VPLEX and XtremIO will offer support for vSphere 6 in 1Q2015.

Jonathan Siegal, VP, marketing, core technologies division, EMC, said: “VMware has once again changed the game in developing the world’s leading virtualization platform to power the Software-Defined Data Center. The combination of EMC platforms and vSphere 6 provides exceptional capabilities for virtual environments. With vSphere 6, supported EMC platforms can reach new levels of scalability, efficiency and mobility and also lays the foundation to enable an entirely new era for the development of desktop virtualization apps.“