Greetings again from the field! As I travel around meeting customers, prospects, and partners, talking about our technology, it’s become really clear lately that shops that have fully embraced VMware are trying to find new and unique ways to reduce their consumption of primary storage. A few interesting use cases have popped up in recent months that have really helped curb the appetite VMware has for storage.
Scenario #1 – Many IT organizations follow the ITIL and/or COBIT processes to govern they way things are deployed into there environments. Some are saddled with federal regulations and other internal corporate policies that required them to validate everything from an infrastructure perspective going into production. A few of my customers have recently deployed a very unique process that enables them to cost effectively store Gold, Compliance, and Validated VMware images on their Permabit system. The beauty of this process is that anytime they make a change to a gold VM image (Windows Security Patches, Virus Definitions, Application changes etc), they can copy that new image to their Permabit storage, and with our deduplication and compression they see significant space savings and realize significant cost savings too.
Benefits – This in turn saves large amounts of storage capacity, considering the number of gold VM images the customer has to store and the frequency of changes that occurs on those VM’s. If they use our snapshot technology, they can keep a rolling history of changes without burning any more storage capacity on the Permabit storage. Replication also provides a way for our customers to have accessible copies of those gold images with the changes available at remote locations. This way, they can spawn the changes from one location and replicate it out to the other sites that need the updates. In doing this, they see that deduplication reduced the amount of data a customer needs to replicate they also save dollars on bandwidth and storage capacity at the remote location.
This is just one of the scenarios I have seen in the field that can allow VMware shops to take advantage of value tier storage and really save significant space and infrastructure costs in the data-center. I will discuss another scenario around backups and disaster recovery for my next post.
Greetings again from the field! As I travel around meeting customers, prospects, and partners, talking about our technology, it’s become really clear lately that shops that have fully embraced VMware are trying to find new and unique ways to reduce their consumption of primary storage. A few interesting use cases have popped up in recent months that have really helped curb the appetite VMware has for storage.
Scenario #1 – Many IT organizations follow the ITIL and/or COBIT processes to govern they way things are deployed into there environments. Some are saddled with federal regulations and other internal corporate policies that required them to validate everything from an infrastructure perspective going into production. A few of my customers have recently deployed a very unique process that enables them to cost effectively store Gold, Compliance, and Validated VMware images on their Permabit system. The beauty of this process is that anytime they make a change to a gold VM image (Windows Security Patches, Virus Definitions, Application changes etc), they can copy that new image to their Permabit storage, and with our deduplication and compression they see significant space savings and realize significant cost savings too.
Benefits – This in turn saves large amounts of storage capacity, considering the number of gold VM images the customer has to store and the frequency of changes that occurs on those VM’s. If they use our snapshot technology, they can keep a rolling history of changes without burning any more storage capacity on the Permabit storage. Replication also provides a way for our customers to have accessible copies of those gold images with the changes available at remote locations. This way, they can spawn the changes from one location and replicate it out to the other sites that need the updates. In doing this, they see that deduplication reduced the amount of data a customer needs to replicate they also save dollars on bandwidth and storage capacity at the remote location.
This is just one of the scenarios I have seen in the field that can allow VMware shops to take advantage of value tier storage and really save significant space and infrastructure costs in the data-center. I will discuss another scenario around backups and disaster recovery for my next post.