VMware Solutions

Together with LeftHand SANs, virtualized server solutions such as VMware Infrastructure 3 are revolutionizing the IT data center. Virtualization reduces expenses by allowing companies to consolidate servers, which can translate to significant savings on cooling costs, power usage, and space requirements. A virtualized infrastructure provides additional benefits to IT departments, significantly improving server and storage manageability, increasing data availability, and allowing the team to respond more quickly to requests for new or expanded services.

Implementing a SAN that complements and extends the server's capabilities maximizes the benefits of moving to a virtualized IT environment. For example, virtualized server upgrades and maintenance can be done seamlessly— you should deploy a SAN that does not require taking the servers offline for those services on the storage side.

Match Server Virtualization with Complementary Storage Virtualization

A LeftHand SAN is the ideal storage solution for virtualized environments. You can move virtual disks between storage clusters without reconfiguring a virtual machine or taking it offline. And, when both your compute infrastructure and your storage infrastructure are matched,complex projects like hardware upgrades, data migrations, and load balancing are simplified. Features like failover and failback are automated, so if a failure does occur, you don’t have to perform the traditional litany of manual operations to get your server and storage system back up and running.

• Simplify deployment and management.Easily installiSCSI SAN to support your VMware Infrastructure, and manage it from a central console.
• Extend virtualization capabilities. ExtendVMware High Availability,VMotion, andDistributed Resource Schedulercapabilities with LeftHand's Network RAID to implement automated failover/failback and load balancing across geographically separated server resources.
• Improve disaster recovery operations. Integrate seamlessly with VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Reduce storage space. Space efficient snapshots of virtual machine and thin provisioned storage volumes minimize the capacityrequired for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure deployments.
• Implement highly available virtual infrastructures without an external shared storage system. Use LeftHand's Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA™) for VMware ESX Server to extend your SAN beyond the data center.

LeftHand's Virtual SAN Appliance

LeftHand introduced the industry’s first VMware certified Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA). The VSA allows SMB and Remote/Branch offices to implement highly available virtual infrastructures without requiring an external shared storage system resulting in lower deployment and on-going maintenance expenses.