EMC VPLEX

EMC VPLEX is a unique technology of storage virtualization using which it is possible to provide the general information access in a cloud (public, private or hybrid) both its movement of data processing due to consolidation of different storage systems in a uniform resource inside and between centers. She allows customers to achieve transparency of mobility of loadings and their availability both at the local level, and at distance due to simultaneous access of VPLEX to the storage systems distributed on different platforms.

On May 28, 2012 EMC at the EMC World 2012 conference announced that the new powerful combination of the virtualized storage of EMC VPLEX with technology of data protection EMC RecoverPoint sets the new standard of level of readiness and protection of a hybrid cloud. This new combination provides the industry-first solution for combination of active/active of DPCs with service of disaster recovery of data on the third platform, offering customers of advantage of technology of coherence of a cache of VPLEX AccessAnywhere with the high level of readiness and comprehensive protection of ProtectEverywhere against RecoverPoint for all systems of block storage of EMC and other vendors.

Providing increase in productivity for 40%, new opportunities of monitoring of performance and double scale in comparison with the previous versions, EMC VPLEX offers customers mobility, level of readiness and function of sharing for deployment in a bigger quantity of IT environments – including VMware vSphere and Oracle RAC. The distributed virtualized storage of VPLEX simplifies the virtualized environment, providing simultaneous access to the same data from all virtual servers. These new features of VPLEX allow to manage the virtualized storage directly from VMware vSphere, simplifying administration in the virtualized environment even more.

Customers use advantages of flexibility and the choice in storage and service of information in the environment of a hybrid cloud more and more versatily, and the combination of these new opportunities of EMC VPLEX and RecoverPoint provides them mobility, high readiness and data protection which are required for transformation of their IT environment for use of advantage of a hybrid cloud.

New in technology:

VPLEX can provide to customers new levels now:

1. High readiness

• RecoverPoint protects all solution portfolio on data storage of EMC, including the VMAX family, the VNX Series and VPLEX series (Local and Metro) now. Customers can use functions of continuous data protection RecoverPoint with VPLEX for obtaining the copy of the working data for the fast, effective and precisely timed recovery in case of violation of integrity of data now. Customers can also use continuous local replication of RecoverPoint and continuous remote replication for protection of the data against emergency situations.
• In the environment of VMware new integration of VPLEX and RecoverPoint provides the maximum flexibility of data protection and high readiness of virtual machines. VPLEX provides to customers simple permanent mobility of data for virtual machines. Now the powerful combination of VPLEX, RecoverPoint and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager™ provides predictable and ordered disaster recovery of data and also restart of virtual machines. It is supported with certification of VMware for RecoverPoint and VPLEX (Local and Metro).
• RecoverPoint provides effective on costs, continuous local security of data both continuous local and remote replication of information with a possibility of recovery of information from any point. RecoverPoint quickly and easily returns again databases and applications of information, online in case of damage. The RecoverPoint technology considerably reduces recovery time and increases quantity of recovery points for the application environment.

2. High performance

• VPLEX provides more large-scale integration level for the virtualized environment to provide the broad picture for simple administration of the virtualized environment of servers and data storage directly from vSphere by means of new integration into the vSphere Storage API interfaces for Storage Awareness (VASA) and vSphere VAAI.
• VPLEX provides performance improvement on already implemented platforms to 40% now, without requiring at the same time additional investments into the equipment and also double increase in scale with a possibility of support up to 1600 hosts (initsiiator) at each VPLEX configuration.
• Recently certified support for Oracle RAC does possible multinodal implementations of the active/active RAC configuration at distance to 100 kilometers, supporting complete synchronization and the continuity of transactions in case of refusal of a node.

3. Simpler administration

• EMC Unisphere simplifies management thanks to the intuitive user interface which provides support of all solution portfolio of data storage of EMC, including the family EMC VMAX, VPLEX and the EMC VNX family now. Unisphere for VPLEX offers customers the same, standard for EMC, a type of the interface. It allows to simplify, arrange and consolidate instruments of administration of EMC to facilitate to customers administration of their environment.