318 Tech Journal » StorCenter http://techjournal.318.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:30:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Low Cost Storage for VMware http://techjournal.318.com/general-technology/low-cost-storage-for-vmware/ http://techjournal.318.com/general-technology/low-cost-storage-for-vmware/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:58:42 +0000 Charles Edge http://www.318.com/techjournal/?p=316 EMC owns VMware. EMC owns Iomega. As a great result of these two acquisitions EMC is now able to provide the StorCenter, a 1U shelf of storage with 4TB (~3TB with RAID5) of capacity that has been qualified to run VMware.  For environments looking to get started with Vmotion and some of the clustered aspects of VMware the Iomega StorCenter offers a nice alternative to the high dollar storage arrays that EMC offers under their own brand.

The StorCenter can provide iSCSI LUNs to host Virtual Machines.  It’s not going to get the same IO as storage of a higher class will get, but for smaller environments with 2 or 3 physical hosts and a number of virtual machines, the StorCenter allows a number of features that can’t be had through traditional direct attached storage.

As an EMC reseller, 318 can help guide you through the process of a containment or a consolidation project, whether you’re looking to deploy 300 TB of fibre channel based LUNs to accommodate your environment or 3TB, we’re here to help!

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