Dell-EqualLogic Rolls Out Auto-Snapshot Manager for VMware
Its has been a busy week at Dell-EqualLogic. First the PS-5500E announcement and now they’re released a version of their Auto-Snapshot Manager for VMware.
If you are thinking of deploying (or already have) VMware in your environment, the aptly-named Auto-Snapshot Manager VMware Edition will no doubt make your life a lot easier. It leverages the VMware snapshotting technology to place virtual machines in the native snapshot mode, takes a SAN-based snapshot, then returns the environment to its normal state.
In their own words: “Integrated directly with standard VMware and EqualLogic APIs, Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition understands the relationships and location of virtual machines, VMFS Datastores, and PS Series SAN-based volumes. With intuitive SAN and VMware-centric navigation and a built-in scheduler, the VMware administrator can simply and flexibly set snapshot creation schedules of individual virtual machines, groups of virtual machines, or even all virtual machines in a VMware Datacenter, coordinating snapshot creation across all SAN-based volumes upon which the virtual machines reside.”
Benefits:
- High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot support
- Automated, consolidated virtual machine backup and recovery
- Scalable HW-based solution for online data protection of virtual infrastructure
- Reduced snapshot space overhead and enhanced ESX Server performance
- Fast recovery of virtual machines and VMFS DataStores
- Easy to navigate GUI with both SAN and VMware-centric views
- Snapshot policies logically assigned to virtual machine hierarchies
On-Demand Seminar - Auto-Snapshot Manager VMware Edition in action
Oh yeah, and it comes bundled w/ every array at no-cost….Yet another reason why Dell-EqualLogic is the best VMware storage platform on the planet.
Contact us if you’d like more info or to discuss in further detail.
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