Symantec is releasing a virtualization package combining its own storage-management software with Citrix Systems' Xen hypervisor. Symantec's Veritas Virtual Infrastructure integrates the vendor's storage management with Citrix XenServer, letting administrators manage server and storage virtualization through a single Web-based console, Symantec officials say. Virtualization of servers and storage are complementary technologies but can sometimes be difficult for IT shops to coordinate, the vendor says. Symantec announced the new virtualization tool last week in conjunction with the Symantec Vision 2008 conference. "Server virtualization makes storage management more complex and in many cases does not support capabilities available today in physical environments," Symantec states in a press release. "Current x86 virtualization solutions have tried to solve this problem using a file system-based approach, but this architecture forces users to give up many of the advanced storage-management capabilities they rely on today," the vendor states. It can be difficult to manage the storage available to virtual machines when administrators lack failover capabilities and mirroring of application data across separate storage arrays, says Sean Derrington, Symantec's senior director of storage management.
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