LeftHand Networks Boosts Disaster Recovery Capabilities in Virtualized Environments With Certified Support for VMware Site Recovery Manager
LeftHand Networks,® the leading provider of highly available iSCSI SANs, announced today its
support for VMware Site Recovery Manager. VMware Site Recovery Manager
is a pioneering new product for disaster recovery management and
automation. Part of VMware´s industry-leading
suite of management and automation products for the data center, VMware
Site Recovery Manager simplifies business continuity planning and
testing, and reduces the risk and complexity associated with
implementing disaster recovery. LeftHand
Networks´ certified Storage Replication
Adapter allows customers to deploy a complete disaster recovery (DR)
solution that automates DR for systems and storage across virtualized
environments.
"VMware and LeftHand
Networks are making disaster recovery rapid, reliable and affordable," said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware. "With
the interoperability between LeftHand´s
storage solutions and VMware Site Recovery Manager, customers can
automate the testing and recovery of both applications and data recovery
within VMware virtualized environments."
Organizations are increasingly faced with stringent recovery time
objectives, success rate objectives and compliance requirements, all
while continually seeking reliable and innovative disaster recovery
solutions that can keep pace with the business expectations placed on IT
organizations. LeftHand
Networks´ SAN systems equipped with the
Storage Replication Adapter and combined with VMware Site Recovery
Manager provide customers with an integrated and completely automated
disaster recovery solution. The combined recovery solution leverages the
competitive advantages of LeftHand
Networks´ Remote Copy capability
including:
Capacity-efficient remote copies of the data that increase the speed
of recovery and maximize the utilization of the SAN. LeftHand Networks´ Remote Copy leverages Advanced Thin Provisioning so that no excess reserve
capacity is required in the disaster recovery site.
Optimal usage of network / WAN resources for predictable quality of
service and performance. LeftHand´s Remote
Copy includes bandwidth throttling so that shared WAN resources
are used optimally for the replication of data while not adversely
impacting other traffic on the WAN.
Fast and easy failover and failback of the data in the event of a
disaster. LeftHand Networks´ Remote
Copy includes incremental failover and failback capabilities
managed via a simple Wizard interface. Unlike many storage vendors
once the primary data center is restored, failback of the data only
requires the transfer of the incremental changes that occur subsequent
to the original failure event.
"The LeftHand Networks Storage Replication
Adapter combined with VMware Site Recovery Manager provides an excellent
and simplified DR solution for customers, allowing them to recover
virtual machines and storage with a single push of a button," said Mike Laverick of RTFM Education. "Certified
solutions are important to customers, and I am delighted that LeftHand´s
Storage Replication Adapter is certified for VMware Site Recovery
Manager. With this certification, customers can enjoy the unique
benefits of LeftHand´s Remote
Copy with the added assurance of full compatibility and support when
using VMware Site Recovery Manager."
By providing a single adapter that is compatible with its entire family
of SAN solutions "“ including iSCSI
SANs and Virtual
SAN Appliances (VSAs) "“ LeftHand
Networks simplifies disaster recovery for customers with virtualized
environments. With its block-based Remote Copy replication architecture
the LeftHand iSCSI
SAN works seamlessly with VMware Site Recovery Manager, providing
performance, security and recovery advantages for virtualized
applications running in customer environments.
"LeftHand is dedicated to delivering
best-of-breed data protection, disaster recovery and high availability
solutions in virtualized server and storage environments," said Larry
Cormier, vice president of marketing, LeftHand
Networks. "That´s why our storage systems
come built-in with synchronous and asynchronous copy capabilities as
well as advanced features such as thin provisioning for space efficient
snapshots and automated failover and failback. Combined with VMware Site
Recovery Manager, those features mean faster, more transparent recovery
in an easier-to-use package."
Availability
The LeftHand Networks Storage Replication Adapter is available as a free
download from LeftHand Networks´ and VMware´s
websites beginning May 31, 2008. A single LeftHand Networks Storage
Replication Adapter is compatible across LeftHand Networks´ entire suite of iSCSI SAN solutions.
About LeftHand Networks
LeftHand Networks pioneered IP-based storage area networks (SAN) in 2001. SANs built using
LeftHand´s SAN/iQ® software are uniquely able to distribute and protect data across a
cluster of industry-standard storage servers. The company´s
patented architecture increases data availability, allows users to start
small and grow the SAN seamlessly, and simplifies management. The
LeftHand SAN is ideal for storage and server consolidation, multi-site
SANs, and disaster recovery. LeftHand SANs are available in the U.S.
Canada and throughout Europe. For more information, contact LeftHand at info@lefthandnetworks.com.