jhv1blz5 wrote: The article validated SOA as an IT architecture paradigm that can be leveraged in many ways. Taking data storage, scalability and application performance to a nifty level using SOA Application Grid infrastructure will no doubt enhance data and application performance on Oracle architecture platforms, it also has the promise of a cost effective and efficient IT delivery model. The very benefits of SOA.
Hifn announced the first customer installation of a new
performance-optimized configuration of its Swarm iSCSI storage appliance with
VMware ESX Server, combining the benefits of a virtualized IT infrastructure
with the cost advantages of iSCSI storage networking and QLogic’s
high-performance iSCSI HBA.
Hifn’s latest Swarm VMware Edition is optimized for ESX
Server configurations. The latest VMware Edition was installed on a Swarm Model
3200 appliance with 7.5 terabytes of shared SAN storage utilizing the
high-performance QLogic QLA4852 iSCSI HBA. The Hifn-QLogic VMware solution
allowed five physical blade servers to share the virtualized storage of a
single Swarm appliance. The addition of the QLogic iSCSI HBA allowed for more
virtual machines to be added to the cluster with nominal performance
degradation.
The customer installation also included VMware’s Vmotion.
Hifn’s Swarm appliance was a key enabling technology for the Vmotion functionality
by storing and sharing a set of VMware files that encapsulate the entire state
of the migrated virtual machine. VMware’s clustered Virtual Machine File System
(VMFS) allows multiple installations of ESX Server to access the same virtual
machine files concurrently on the shared Swarm storage pool. Live virtual
machine migration gives customers the freedom to perform hardware maintenance
without scheduled downtime and proactively migrate virtual machines away from
failing or under-performing servers, and perform load balancing across all
available ESX virtual machines.
“Storage virtualization is a key enabler for iSCSI
technology,” said John Matze, Vice President of Business Development at Hifn.
“Hifn and QLogic understand the needs of VMware customers and the stress that
iSCSI and TCP overhead can put on server processors, particularly in large
virtual machine deployments. Our performance-optimized Swarm Edition for VMware
once again demonstrates the versatility of the Swarm platform and how it delivers
many options and endless solutions for affordable SAN-based storage.”
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