Announcing the New VMware vCenter Plug-In 2.3 for IBM System Storage with vSphere 5.0 Support

The IBM® System Storage Plug-In for VMware vCenter provides VMware administrators with powerful capabilities designed to increase their productivity and simplify their jobs. The plug-in is designed to monitor and manage IBM System Storage DS5000, DS4000, and DS3000 storage arrays used in conjunction with VMware virtualization software, allowing administrators to monitor and provision the storage subsystems they employ — with the ultimate goal of ensuring the performance and availability of the virtual infrastructure they are managing.

This plug-in enables administrators to monitor and manage their storage subsystem from a single pane of glass and perform a common set of storage provisioning tasks without switching between multiple user interfaces. The vCenter Plug-In helps VMware administrators in a number of ways, including:

• Provisioning additional storage for virtual machines quickly
• Enabling an end-to-end view for VMware to storage from a virtual machine, host, storage subsystem, or volume perspective
• Describing current conditions in easy-to-understand terms
• Responding better to service level agreement (SLA) and quality of service (QoS) issues
• Employing Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) protection
• Ensuring availability of sufficient disk space
• Troubleshooting and performing root cause analysis for virtual machines and their storage
• Setting up the remote mirror for VMware Site Recovery Manager solution
• Taking an IBM FlashCopy copy of a Datastore for validation or before making changes to the environment
• Allows for lower OpEx – need for less training

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