Faster Performance For Your VMware Environment

What if you could get faster performance out of your VMware environment? You’d do it.

Stifling I/O bottlenecks, shrinking backup windows, and unplanned outages are commonplace concerns shared among data center architects rolling out their virtual data center and cloud.

Virtual machine (VM) growth tends to escalate as data centers get comfortable with virtualization technologies. But, growth often gets hampered by the lowest common denominator if not addressed as part of the implementation plan.

A few months back, I used the DeLorean with the flux capacitor from the old Back to the Future movies as an analogy to supercharging applications through data path optimization. Now, if you recall, in the second installment of this famed movie series, the fictional character Doc Brown went into the future to retrofit his DeLorean time machine with the power of flight. Similarly, upgrading your path management to optimize your virtual environment can make your data center seemingly levitate—and eliminate many of the concerns for virtual and cloud deployments.

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Supercharging Applications Through Data Path Optimization

What if you could optimize your data paths to get the most out of your storage investment? 

You’d do it, unless you had money to burn. You’ve got a lot invested in hardware and software and an angry mob—er, users—at your door.

In the 1985 movie Back to the Future, Doc Brown created the Flux Capacitor to kick his DeLorean automobile into another time period.

No amount of fossil fuel was going to get him and his ride to his destination.

Similarly, with today’s sophisticated data centers, no amount of hardware or manual intervention is going to tune the data path connections between servers and storage to provide the performance, availability, and scaling you need.

You need a path management solution that will put your data paths into overdrive. Continue reading