VSPEX Private Cloud with VPLEX

Delivering Continuous Availability and Mobility

ESSENTIALS
Challenges
Delivering continuous application
availability within an infrastructure that
reduces complexity and provides
automatic failover with the flexibility of
server, networking and storage
support.
Solution
VPLEX as part of a VSPEX Proven
Infrastructure with best-of-breed
technologies providing the power,
performance and reliability your
business needs to be competitive.
Continuously Available

Ensures continuous availability of

VSPEX by eliminating planned
and unplanned downtime

Keeps operations running in the

event of a full site failure - all the
while increasing asset utilization
and reducing operating costs

Performance and Failover

Businesses face many challenges in delivering application availability, while working

within constrained IT budgets. Increased deployment of virtualization lowers costs and
increase availability, but alone will not allow businesses to provide the required
application access demanded by users.
Planned and unplanned downtime is a way of life in IT operations, as is the
requirement for 24X7 100% uptime for mission-critical applications. For unplanned
outage failover, a manual process requiring human intervention often means failover is
not invoked due to lack of trust in the solution.

THE SOLUTION: EMC VSPEX with EMC VPLEX

DELIVERS CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY AND
DATA MOBILITY IN A VMWARE ENVIRONMENT
IT leaders increasingly transfer mission-critical applications to virtual and cloud
infrastructures to take advantage of considerable cost savings, simplified management
and data center efficiencies. This transition brings new opportunities because
traditional solutions are not able to meet the availability requirements of missioncritical applications in virtual and cloud environments.
EMC VSPEX with VPLEX provides continuous availability to mission-critical applications
in new and existing IT environments. This technology sets a new standard for
availability by providing simultaneous read/write access to the same information in two
different storage arrays locally and across distance (now up to 10ms RTT latency,

VSPEX with VPLEX infrastructures

previously 5ms RTT), for improved disaster tolerance .

are active/active delivering

The ability to simultaneously access one version of information across two data centers

performance by fully utilizing all

resources at both sites

THE CHALLENGE: ENSURING APPLICATION

AVAILABILITY AND PERFORMANCE

Automatic failover is provided,

on two VSPEX Instances is a critical component of continuously available

infrastructures. It protects against both technical and operational disasters, and opens
up a host of opportunities in the areas of data mobility and availability.

taking the human element out of

invoking backup scenarios in
cases of unplanned outages
Flexible

Choice of hypervisor, server,

networking and storage with
reference architectures

Allows for 3rd party applications

and management framework
support

SOLUTION OVERVIEW

EMC VSPEX with VPLEX SIMPLIFIES YOUR

INFRASTUCTURE
EMC VSPEX with VPLEX helps with almost any outage scenario through active-active
continuous availability that fully utilizes assets at both data center sites and simplifies
IT infrastructure. Organizations are able to:

Increase trust in their IT infrastructure by replacing manual recovery practices with

fast, automated processes that reduce the chance of human error

Reduce cost and improve efficiency by unifying continuous availability and disaster
recovery processes into a streamlined capability

Optimize VSPEX availability and performance by dynamically load balancing

workloads across arrays within and across data centers

Enable migrations, maintenance and technology refreshes during normal business

hours without disrupting application and user access

Dynamically move applications or entire data centers without interrupting data

processing

VSPEX WITH VPLEX REDUCES RISK AND

OPERATIONAL COST
VPLEX ensures mission-critical applications remain continuously available in the event
of a single array failure or an entire data center being compromised. Streamline the
movement of application data for non-disruptive load balancing, performance
optimization and technology refreshes.

PARTNER SERVICES OPPORTUNITIES

The inclusion of VPLEX as part of VSPEX solutions allows partners to engage in new
strategic conversations with customers. To help organizations get started on their
journey to 100% uptime, partners have opportunities to offer services to help their
customers achieve continuous availability for applications and data and how to lower
operating costs. As customers move toward a continuously available infrastructure,
they will need to purchase more storage and other infrastructure kit, and deployment
services along the way.

VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS

ARE SIMPLE, EFFICIENT, AND FLEXIBLE
VSPEX Proven Infrastructure accelerates private cloud deployments. Built with best-ofbreed virtualization, server, network, storage, and replication, VSPEX enables faster
deployment, more simplicity, greater choice, higher efficiency, and lower risk.
VSPEX Private Cloud solutions enable you to transform your IT and accelerate your
virtualization journey.

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