white paper
SEAGATE BEST
PRACTICES AND
INTEGRATION GUIDE
FOR VMWARE
WHITE PAPER
CONTENTS
03
INTRODUCTION
04
SEAGATE AND VMWARE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
06
SAN STORAGE BEST PRACTICES
11
CONCLUSION
12
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
2
WHITE PAPER
Introduction
Today's data centers have embraced server virtualization to optimize hardware resources, energy resources, and real estate. Data centers large and small have moved most non-critical applications to virtualized environments. The next step in this evolution toward virtualization is the migration of mission-critical, Tier 1 applications to the virtual machine. However, in order to gain the trust of IT
departments, the virtualization environment must offer the features of a five nines (99.999%), highavailability infrastructure and provide guarantees of scalability, performance, and reliability. In order to accomplish this, all components of the infrastructure must meet these new demands.
VMware's flagship vSphere virtualization product is ready to manage mission-critical applications. It provides world-class high-availability features and resource management tools that allow customers to give priority to Tier 1 applications. To complement these distributed, virtualized computing environments, Seagate Systems offers networked storage solutions that provide equivalent highavailability and reliability features for the underlying storage subsystem.
Seagate Systems is an active partner with VMware in bringing comprehensive virtualized solutions to customers. The Seagate® Exos® X series storage arrays are designed to be integral components in demanding high-availability computing environments, delivering data to servers from a robust, reliable,
and high-performance platform.
This technology paper will outline the advantages of using Seagate Exos X series storage products
