Storage Networking

Scaling Out Virtualized Storage Area Networks with Dell and Arista

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By allowing the nondisruptive addition or removal of servers to address changing workload needs, hypervisor-based virtualization provides a means for both increasing processing power and applying it more efficiently. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays complement this capability by virtualizing storage, allowing automatic load-balancing and live migration of workloads among storage resources. And Arista Networks’ 7000 family of switches enables both server and storage virtualization by providing switched 1/10Gb Ethernet in an architecture that scales to support thousands of devices in the data center. Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS) provides the reliability and traffic control features that fulfill the performance requirements of data center systems. With Virtual EOS (vEOS), Arista helps bind network performance and policy requirements to the corresponding application and storage systems in the data center.