Using IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server FlashCopy with VMware ESX 2.5 Server
The IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) is targeted at both mainframe and open system environments and is designed to provide improved reliability, ease of management and exceptional performance. Further, the ESS provides a rich set of Advanced Copy Services to providing point-in-time copies, synchronous copies, and remote mirroring.
VMware, an EMC company, was founded in 1998 to bring mainframe-class virtual machine technology to industry-standard computers. VMware delivered its first product, VMware® Workstation in 1999 and in 2001 introduced VMware GSX Server and VMware ESX Server. With the launch of VMware VirtualCenter in 2003, and the groundbreaking VMotion™ technology, the company established itself as the thought leader in the newly emerging virtual infrastructure marketplace. Virtual infrastructure introduces a new category of capabilities to the data center enabling business to reduce their IT costs through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. In 2004, the company extended the capabilities of virtual infrastructure to the enterprise desktop with the introduction of VMware ACE. VMware is based in the heart of Silicon Valley–Palo Alto, California.
IBM and VMware are working together to provide greater benefits to end-users by promoting greater interoperability in the solutions that each bring to the marketplace. This paper offers an overview of the use of the ESS’s FlashCopy function to assist customers in meeting their data backup needs for applications running on the ESX Server.
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