EMC, VMware scale up data center

摘要

EMC and VMware are promising mass scalability in the virtual data center with new products that will let enterprises deploy and manage hundreds of thousands of virtual servers.rnWhile EMC last week unveiled a new Sym-metrix storage array designed to support heavily virtualized data centers, VMware this week will announce vSphere, the next generation of its core hypervisor and related management tools.rnEMC's new Symmetrix V-Max storage system (short for Virtual Matrix) is being positioned as a second flagship product alongside its DMX4. EMC claims its new Virtual Matrix architecture will deliver massive scalability, delivering tens of millions of IOPS and the ability to manage hundreds of petabytes of storage for hundreds of thousands of virtual machines from a single management system. The system combines flash-based solid-state drives with Fibre Channel and SATA.