Many organizations miss out on the awesome benefits of server virtualization because they don't adapt their storage strategy to one that can meet the increased demands of virtual server environments. When the underlying storage platform can't provide the performance, availability and flexibility needed to keep up with the consolidated and dynamic characteristics of virtualized servers, the data center and IT operations suffer.

This paper introduces a next-generation federated tier 1 storage system purpose-built to exceed the economic and operational demands of virtual and cloud environments. Read on to learn about the SAN scalability, availability, performance and easy management this tech promises to deliver, and explore how it can configured and best run with VMware vSphere 5.