VMware and Mission-Critical Applications - VMware Infrastructure- EMC

VMware and Mission-Critical Applications

Accelerate deployment, increase operational efficiency, and achieve cost-effective disaster recovery.

Descriptive Information

Reference Architecture: EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Microsoft Applications Data Center Solution Enabled by EMC Symmetrix V-Max and VMware vSphere 4.0

White Papers

EMC CLARiiON Guidelines for VMware Site Recovery Manager with EMC MirrorView and Microsoft Exchange - Best Practices Planning
EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Microsoft and Oracle Applications - Enabled by EMC CLARiiON and VMware vSphere 4
Oracle 11g Disaster Recovery Solution with VMware Site Recovery Manager and EMC CLARiiON MirrorView/A - Applied Technology

Customer Stories

Valley Baptist Health System

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EMC VMware and Mission-Critical Applications solutions allow you to simplify management of your mission-critical applications in a VMware environment. With VMware and Mission-Critical Applications solutions, you can leverage the underlying infrastructure to efficiently enable a high service level for your business-critical applications and databases.

Key Benefits

Reduced cost and inefficiencies — Consolidate larger workloads to improve utilization of existing capacity.
Dynamically scaled applications — Leverage tiered storage and virtualization to provide the right levels of application availability and scalability.
Accelerated application lifecycle — Test, stage, and provision your multitier applications quickly and efficiently to enable flexibility.
Cost-effective disaster recovery — Minimize application disruption and enable ongoing business operations.
Proven solutions/best practices — Lessen risk in your critical environment. Leverage validated solutions and documented best practices.

Business Examples

VMware and Microsoft Exchange - Accelerate deployment, reduce IT management complexity, and improve reliability of Microsoft Exchange.
VMware and Microsoft SharePoint Server - Improve management and availability with Microsoft SharePoint on VMware.
VMware and Microsoft SQL Server - Improve deployment, upgrades, and migrations of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 running on VMware.
VMware and Oracle Databases and Applications - Leverage VMware to accelerate new deployments and patches for Oracle databases and applications.

EMC will help you build your solution with the following products, services, and partners:

Oracle Infrastructure Services - Enable growth and flexibility, speed deployment, and minimize risk and cost within your Oracle environment.
SAP Infrastructure Services - Enable growth, speed deployment, and reduce the risk and cost within your SAP application environment.
Virtualization - Accelerate your virtual data center initiatives to achieve dramatic savings, improved service delivery, and a foundation for cloud computing.