EMC Launch VPLEX Local and Metro
EMC Launch vPlex at EMC World
Made in Ireland. VPLEX - the Game Changing Ability to Move Terabytes of Storage non-disruptively Over Distance.
EMC Corporation, one of the world's leaders in information infrastructure solutions, has unveiled its VPLEX® Local and & Metro, groundbreaking new technology that significantly advances Virtual Storage and which, the company claims, will enable dramatic new models of computing.
The company believes the new VPLEX technology is a radically new and better approach to data access and mobility, changing distance from a barrier to an asset that can be exploited. It will ultimately allow organizations to non-disruptively move thousands of virtual machines and petabytes of information over thousands of miles, schedule daily batch processes in locations with lower energy costs, easily shift IT operations out of the way of regional disasters, and dynamically balance workloads as the business day progresses around the globe.
According to IDC, data created in the digital economy is set to increase from 0.8 Zb (Zetabyte) (2009) to 35.8 Zb within the next decade. Talking live to IrishDev.com at EMC World in Boston, Joe Tucci, (pictured) EMC Chairman and COO, emphasised the point explaining that it would take 75 billion fully loaded 16gb ipads to cope with the current (1.2 Zb in 2010) data creation. Tucci said "At approximately US$900 Apples revenues would be US$6.75 trillion and whilst this might please Steve Jobs, it is obvious that the way data is stored and migrated has to change."
A key to Virtual Storage is the federation of distributed storage arrays, which is a breakthrough component of the new VPLEX technology. Combined with other EMC Virtual Storage technologies like FAST (fully automated storage tiering), VPLEX are transforming storage arrays in the same way server virtualization technology has transformed physical servers - from dedicated single-purpose machines to highly efficient, flexible, aggregated resources shared across multiple operating environments and geographies.
Federation transparently pools the resources of multiple storage systems locally and over distance and allows them to work together. Federated storage is not only more efficient than its physical predecessors; it also allows IT organizations to aggregate compute and storage resources together allowing entire data centers to be virtualized and managed as a single resource, and thus allows organisations to rethink their entire data center strategies, their locations, the number of them and ultimately the role that each plays in the overall IT environment.
EMC VPLEX represents a major step in the journey to the private cloud and IT as a service. EMC VPLEX combines scale-out clustering and advanced data caching with unique distributed cache coherence intelligence to allow data to be accessed and shared across hosts and clusters within and across data centers. In addition, VPLEX is architected to be "array aware" to preserve investments in existing storage infrastructure and software functionality while adding new value through federation and the ability to pool resources over distance. EMC's approach to distributed cache coherency is the unique technology that addresses the inherent challenges of latency, bandwidth and consistency that arise when regularly accessing and relocating large amounts of information over distances in real time.
EMC first introduced the performance benefits of integrated cache - pre-staging the most frequently accessed data into electronic memory for near instant response times - in its first Symmetrix® storage system two decades ago and holds numerous patents in this area. This expertise, combined with acquired intellectual property, and a multi-year development effort, has resulted in a fundamental information storage breakthrough called AccessAnywhereTM that is first being delivered in a new product family and will eventually be integrated into other EMC storage solutions.
EMC VPLEX Local and VPLEX Metro are the first two products to utilize this new technology. A solution that resides between the servers and heterogeneous storage arrays, each is comprised of high-availability VPLEX Engines that encompass two separate VPLEX Directors, each featuring high performance multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors, 32GB intelligent cache pools and 8 Gb/s (gigabit per second) Fibre Channel host and array connections. EMC has qualified the new VPLEX systems with major hosts, clusters, operating systems, virtualization platforms, storage area network (SAN) infrastructure, and EMC and non-EMC storage systems.
EMC VPLEX Local Features:
- Non-disruptive, transparent data mobility within, across and between EMC and non-EMC storage platforms within a single site/data center.
- Simplifies recurring information movement and improves storage utilization.
- Features a single cluster with up to 4 VPLEX Engines (8 Directors) with support for up to 8,000 virtualized storage volumes.
EMC VPLEX Metro Features:
- Non-disruptive, transparent data mobility between EMC and non-EMC platforms.
- Ability to link two separate VPLEX clusters within a data center or up to 100 km apart and to federate some or all of the storage volumes across both clusters, effectively presenting these "stretched" volumes at each site as if they were local, shared volumes.
Also planned for future delivery is VPLEX Global, which will enable distributed concurrent data access and workload relocations across multiple global locations over both synchronous and asynchronous distances. These products, which will be rolled out beginning in 2011, deliver completely new computing and data center models that provide the foundation to fully enable the private cloud.
One of EMC's controlled beta clients is Aol. Will Stevens, Senior Director of Storage Operations at company said, "AOL is one of the largest producers of digital content in the world and has virtualized its information infrastructure in a cloud computing environment. We've deployed more than 10 EMC VPLEX virtual storage clusters at data centers in the U.S. and in Germany to help us more effectively manage several petabytes of storage capacity used by applications running on thousands of servers."
Stevens added "Providing our users with fast access to their information is critical to our business. With the VPLEX clusters, we've been able to easily provision huge chunks of storage to speed the introduction of new services and shift workloads to meet demand. With a true cloud computing environment, we're looking to use VPLEX to help us extend it even more for even better flexibility, protection and asset utilization."
Patrick Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products and former 30 year veteran of Intel, said "VPLEX is groundbreaking technology and that will change the way data centers are designed and managed. It's a core component of EMC's Virtual Storage vision and will do to storage what server virtualization has done to computing and will provide game changing levels of efficiency and flexibility.
The ability to share, move and access large amounts of data regardless of location is a key element of the Journey to the Private Cloud. VPLEX technology will enable follow the sun computing, the relocating of workloads to low-cost energy regions or moving them out of the way of approaching storms - in general, IT environments will be more dynamic and flexible than ever before."
Availability
The EMC VPLEX Local and VPLEX Metro systems are available immediately from EMC and can be purchased via standard capacity-based licenses $77,000 or, for service providers wishing to absorb the expenditure as operational expennse, as a private cloud-based "pay-as-you-go" subscription licensing approach starting at $26,000.
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