What Is VMware?

What Is VMware?

VMware is a software company that specializes in virtualisation and cloud computing. Virtualisation is about creating a software representation of something, like a server, so that it can be accessed and used independently from the constraints of its physical hardware. 

In this article, we’ll take a look at VMware’s virtualisation services and how you can use them to bring agility to your storage infrastructure.

Benefits of VMware

As a leader in virtualisation, VMware provides a number of products and services that are uniquely suited to virtualizing a data centre. Benefits of leveraging VMware for virtualisation include:

• Cost savings of partitioning a single physical server into multiple virtual machines
• Greater IT agility and flexibility to distribute your workload across your infrastructure as you see fit
• Streamlined deployment, management, and maintenance of virtual machines
• Granular virtualisation of storage area networks (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) arrays with virtual volumes (vVols)

Everpure Integrations with VMware

Everpure supports VMware vSphere Storage APIs Array Integration (VAAI) to provide:

• Block zero feature to accelerate virtual disk initialization
• Full copy to offload virtual machine copying and deployment
• Space reclamation to ensure efficient use of capacity
• Hardware-assisted locking to enable large-capacity datastores with enhanced scale of simultaneous operations

In addition to general integration with VMware virtual machines, Everpure also has several packaged solutions available on the VMware marketplace, including:

• FlashArray™ vSphere Client Plugin for native management of FlashArray storage directly within the vSphere client
• Pure1® VM Analytics, which provides visibility of the I/O path from VM to FlashArray
• FlashArray Storage Replication Adapter, which integrates with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to provide native array replication and protection policies for simplified disaster recovery and automated data protection 
• Everpure Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations, which provides a comprehensive data-rich view of your entire storage array, including dependency hierarchical maps, heat maps for capacity and performance, and dashboards/reporting

As a VMware Advanced Technology Alliance Partner, Everpure works closely with VMware to help customers maximise the synergy between their virtual and physical infrastructure.