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This week I will be at VMworld and will be giving ongoing reports of what we see there. Overall, the show seems as busy as last year. The facility is a little smaller and attendance may be a little lighter but they are expecting between 10,000 and 12,000 people. Look for quick updates, in reverse order, throughout the week. Updates will also appear at the top of the page.
George Crump
September 03, 2009

FalconStor

was talking about their VMware initiatives where they are providing
continuous availability for VMware. They are announcing at the show a
fail back plugin to Site Recovery Manager (SRM). It discovers the
replicated VMs, reverses the direction of the replication, reconfigures
the VM on the primary site and then initiates the fail back. Now SRM
fail back is completely automatic.

Second, they announced the
ability to extend SRM to physical environments. FalconStor will copy
physical workloads, convert them to virtual workloads and mount them as
stand-by VMs. From there SRM can take over. This demand is coming from
customers who have hybrid environments; some physical, some virtual.

Third,
they announced that they are providing more manageability to Virtual
Server Admins. They announced a FalconStor plugin to Vcenter. This
plugin will allow the user from a single interface to create the
virtual machine, assign storage and even assign a data protection
policy that includes snapshots and replication.

Finally, they
are extending their storage and data services to the VMware
infrastructure via virtual appliances. All of the products are now
available as Virtual Appliances; the latest is FalconStor's
deduplication appliance which can now run as a virtual machine.

EMC was
talking about the VMware specific capabilities of its PowerPath Virtual
Edition. This brings the multi-pathing capabilities of PowerPath to the
virtual environment. Configuring storage IO paths in VMware can be a
challenge to say the least, Powerpath VE resolves many of those issues
automatically. Simply point the virtual machine at PowerPath VE and it
can automatically manage all the IO pathing for you. This includes
keeping the path configuration in tact as you move VMotion, the virtual
machine. It will self optimize depending on the target and can include
iSCSI in its path management. In addition to managing the failover
pathing it can also manage performance pathing. Instead of the normal
round robin approach it can redirect traffic to a specific least busy
IO path.

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