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Storage Management Integrated with Server Virtualization (Where’s EMC?)

July 26, 2007 By Stephen 1 Comment

XenSource just announced that they’ll embed Symantec-née-Veritas‘ server-side storage virtualization software into their server virtualization offering. This is great news, since server virtualization has boiling for more than a year now with precious little storage integration to be seen. Although XenSource is a distant second in the world of server virtualization, they’re close enough to put heat on leader, VMware. And every time an upstart prompts the market leader to innovate, I’m cheering. Plus, I’ve been a fan of VxVM for decades.

I for one was surprised at the small impact EMC has had on VMware. One systems administrator I talked to enthusiastically pointed out how great it was that big bad old EMC didn’t ruin VMware, but it cuts both ways. EMC has tremendous knowledge of the realities of managing storage in the enterprise, yet this hasn’t much rubbed off on VMware. After all, last I heard, they were still telling users to provision a single LUN for multiple virtual servers, and mixing OS and application data on the virtual C: drive…

Maybe we’ll see a response from EMC. EMC added volume management to PowerPath 4.0 back in 2003, and rumor had it they were developing their own full-featured multi-platform alternative to Veritas Volume Manager/Foundation Suite. Could this be headed into the VMware codebase? That would be a great way to gain some traction outside the storage space!

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Filed Under: Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage Tagged With: EMC, server virtualization, Symantec, Veritas, VMware, volume management, Xen

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