Storage is the most important element in successful server virtualization projects. As the number of applications per server increases, the consolidation of once well-behaved and predictable I/O patterns creates huge demands on storage systems, and a storage infrastructure that is not up to the task becomes a crippling bottleneck.

But with proper, well-planned underlying storage resources, server virtualization can deliver even greater resource consolidation, administrative efficiency, and cost savings while not only transforming data centers, but also the businesses that those data centers fuel.

This brief presents the customer benefits of using Storwize V7000 storage systems with an Oracle 11g database. It discusses key customer challenges and how they can easily be met with the combined IBM solution.