Violin Memory, Inc.,
a global pioneer of award-winning all flash storage platform solutions
for primary storage and active workloads, today announced that its
Concerto OS 7 enterprise management operating system has been certified for
VMware's vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Added
to the existing Violin vSphere Web Client Plugin, the Violin Storage
Replication Adapter (SRA) solution seamlessly integrates Violin's
Concerto OS 7 advanced storage management capabilities with VMware
vSphere. Violin's SRA is certified VMware Compatible for VMware SRM
versions 5.5, 5.8, 6.0, and 6.1.
The Violin SRA for the VMware
vCenter Server Site Recovery Manager leverages array-based replication
support, enabling enterprise-wide data protection and business
continuity. This close integration with VMware technology simplifies the
configuration and management of disaster recovery plans, lowering the
total cost of ownership (TCO) for recovery infrastructure.
The
Violin SRA enables enterprises to automate their disaster recovery by
utilizing centralized recovery plans. This includes automated site
recovery failback as well as migration processes. Recovery solutions can
also be tested in a non-disruptive fashion for confidence in the event
of a failure or disaster situation. With traditional solutions,
restoring business operations from a remote site can be a lengthy and
complex manual process. Violin's Flash Storage Platform (FSP) Concerto
OS 7 SRA solution, which integrates with VMware's vCenter Server SRM,
accelerates and greatly simplifies every aspect of business recovery.
Violin's
FSP has integrated, advanced business continuance capabilities in its
Concerto OS 7 operating system which eliminates issues of complexity and
the associated risks with reliability.
Solution highlights for Violin's Concerto OS 7 certification with VMware SRM:
- Reduce recovery time to minutes using automated failover and failback workflows utilizing WAN-optimized replication.
- Allows detailed recovery policies and plans to be specified on a per data store level across a vSphere cluster.
- Enables non-disruptive testing to ensure predictable recovery behavior.
- Perform zero-downtime disaster avoidance and data center migrations.
- Achieve zero-downtime application mobility by enabling live migration of virtual machines at scale across sites.
- Stretch cluster support -- leverage Violin Memory solutions that
combine synchronous mirroring with array-based clustering in
metropolitan distances.
Violin's FSP, powered by Concerto OS 7, delivers enterprise
data services, consistent high performance, data reduction, and
management simplicity to create a new class of flash-based solutions for
primary storage applications. Concerto OS 7 enables organizations to
overcome primary storage challenges and run all of their applications
with increased consolidation ratios, higher availability and lower TCO
as compared to legacy disk-, hybrid- or SSD-based solutions.
"Violin's
FSP provides organizations an enterprise-class all-flash storage
solution ideal for the performance needs of virtualized environments,"
said Vikas Ratna, vice president of product management at Violin. "While
Violin's Concerto OS 7 eliminates many of the headaches associated with
storage infrastructure management, we are excited about what the Violin
SRA for VMware's vCenter Server SRM certification will mean for our
enterprise customers. Among its many benefits, this integration will
provide simplicity, accessibility and ease-of-use by bringing business
recovery management into a familiar VMware environment. This ensures
resilient, protected VMware applications which can enable increased
efficiencies, cost-savings and ROI," Ratna concluded.