Executive summary Infrastructure Convergence is the key to successful IT transformation. Organizations are making a move to a Converged Infrastructure in order to gain higher returns from their IT investments while operating at lower costs under current constrained resources and budgets. One of the key elements to achieve total convergence is to pool your compute and storage resources via virtualization technologies. Recent trends show that many IT organizations are turning to a virtual server infrastructure to help address challenges of improving manageability, availability, and resource utilization. Though they have virtualized their server infrastructure, their storage infrastructure remains
siloed or stranded. This partial implementation of virtualization only in the server infrastructure creates a series of storage challenges that nullifies the benefits of server virtualization.
With your server virtualization solution in place, are you currently finding it difficult to manage your large and complex storage area network (SAN) infrastructure? Are you looking for cost-effective solutions that help you better manage your storage growth and make efficient use of your storage infrastructure? This white paper focuses on describing the main challenges faced by IT organizations that have adopted server virtualization but have not virtualized their storage infrastructure. It then describes how new flexible solutions like the EVA Cluster can be used to unleash the power of your physical storage, and provide you with a more effective storage solution that gets you better business results.
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