Secrets to Shrinking Your Storage for VMware

Virtual server environments powered by VMware have caused a revolution in the data center. Collapsing previously bloated and underutilized server and desktop infrastructures, VMware has led organizations to transform how they deploy and provision their applications, test and development copies, and virtual desktop environments that now benefit from this more fluid, dynamic architecture.

The promise of VMware has allowed many organizations to achieve big savings in server capital costs, including power, cooling and management. But, often, a different picture emerges on the storage side of this equation. As virtual machines (VMs) proliferate, storage also increases, often at an alarming rate for organizations seeking to shrink their overall IT infrastructure costs.

This brief looks at the challenge of harnessing storage growth within growing VMware environments based on input from third parties, analysts, as well as current VMware users. It also explores reports from NetApp and NetApp customers that claim the ability to shrink and reclaim VMware customer storage footprints by anywhere from 50% to 90%. It also explores potential deduplication savings and scenarios where this type of space capacity savings can best be reached.

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Why You Should Make Zentra Your Solutions Provider of Choice

Zentra delivers unrivaled solutions to address your complex IT business challenge within large data processing center. They don't believe in quick IT "fixes" the principle of providing a total solution underpins everything that they do.

Zentra views technology as an investment that provides a meaningful return on investment. In particular, they implement solutions that provide organizations with measurable value. This may include: increased business capacity, reduced costs, improved efficiency, reduced complexity, reduced anxiety, increased productivity and improved employee satisfaction.

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Comprehensive Virtual Desktop Deployment with VMware and NetApp

Over the last few years, enterprises have realized the benefits of server virtualization in their data center through consolidation and business continuity efforts. It has delivered in simplifying day-to-day administration and reducing management tasks and operating costs, while maintaining reliability and availability. Given the success of virtualization in these areas and the growing challenge to manage desktops, companies are beginning to look for ways to get similar benefits by applying the same technology to the desktop environment.

VMware offers an end-to-end solution called VMware View, the next generation of VMware VDI, that allows organizations to provide corporate end users with access to virtual desktop machines that are hosted in a central data center.

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