CLARiiON Integration with

Vmware ESX Server Applied Technology

This white paper provides a quick overview of how to connect an EMC® CLARiiON® storage system to a VMware ESX Server. It highlights the VMotion, VMware HA, and distributed Resource Scheduling capabilities of the VMware ESX Server, as well as clustering of virtual machines when connected to a CLARIION storage system. It provides a general overview of how the VMware ESX Server integrates with the CLARiiON storage system.

Why use CLARiiON with VMware ESX Server? Just a few of the reasons include:

• CLARiiON and VMware complement each other with the features that they provide. Some of the reasons CLARiiON is an ideal fit for VMware in the midrange storage market include:
• CLARiiON storage systems provide flexible levels of models including Fibre Channel and iSCSI systems. This allows the user to make the optimal choice of a storage system based on capacity, performance and cost.
• CLARiiON storage systems can scale quickly to manage anticipated data growth, especially as the storage need for virtual machines increases on the VMware ESX Server.
• CLARiiON storage can be shared across multiple ESX Servers allowing storage consolidation to provide efficient use of storage resources, which is valuable for clustering and VMmotion.
• Virtual machine applications running on CLARiiON storage systems enhance performance and therefore maximize functionality, reliability, and efficiency of the VMware ESX Server.

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