Enabling The Virtual Data Center

Virtualization has become an essential data center technology, allowing IT administrators to consolidate server infrastructure and reduce costs while enhancing service levels. Today, many organizations are advancing toward the next step, which is to couple storage virtualization with server virtualization in a highly available, scalable, and manageable environment. Building the foundation for these next-generation data center infrastructures requires well-integrated server and storage virtualization platforms.

This white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high-performance, dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to deploy, manage and scale.