France: Virtualization

Accelerate virtualization of your business-critical applications confidently with Symantec IMPROVED STORAGE I/O PERFORMANCE AND AVAILABILITY Complexity of balancing capacity, bandwidth, or processing performance impacts application availability. Storage configuration and allocation is difficult to manage across the growth of dynamic virtual machines. Organizations want to reduce storage costs and operational management expenditures with multiple options for configuration, balancing capacity, bandwidth, and restoring connectivity. PRODUCT SUMMARY: Veritas™ Dynamic MultiPathing for VMware® Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware is integrated into VMware vCenter. Through intelligent algorithms and load balancing, it improves storage I/O performance and availability for VMware ESX attached storage. In addition, it reroutes I/Os to available data paths in the event of a failure and automatically restores failed paths that become healthy. Highlights: • Enhance data availability through storage path failure protection and fast failover. • Optimize I/O performance by distributing requests across all available paths according to predefined load balancing policies. • Improve storage visibility through advanced device naming capabilities and expand your choice of storage vendors. Veritas™ Cluster Server Veritas Cluster Server Virtual Business Service (VBS) feature provides continuous high availability for multi-tier applications running on heterogeneous physical and virtual platforms. VBS eliminates the complexity of virtualization associated with managing multiple layers of physical and virtual environments, each with its own management tools. Highlights: • Simplify the start/stop orchestration of multi-tier applications. • Gain end-to-end visibility of the complete business service. • Eliminate management complexity of applications running on heterogeneous physical and virtual platforms. REDUCED APPLICATION IMPACT FROM BACKUP AND RECOVERY OPERATIONS Both backup and virtualization are I/O- and CPU-intensive processes and can impact application performance that business-critical applications, that are themselves transaction heavy, cannot withstand. Organizations tend to protect their VMs the same as their physical machines, which is to install a backup client in the VM and thereby potentially causing application performance impact. Increasing numbers of virtual machines can create contention between the backups within each virtual machine for limited network bandwidth, CPU I/O, and memory resources. Resource-intensive backup and restore operations within these VMs can result in bottlenecks that increase backup windows and impact the performance of virtualized applications. In addition, many businesses often fall prey to creating new and redundant silos of data protection technologies and processes, one for traditional physical, and one for the growing base of virtual machines. This is counterintuitive to basic premise of data center consolidation and can introduce redundancies that translate into additional capex and opex costs. Organizations want to unify backup and recovery operations to drive out redundancies, costs, and performance overhead.

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