Why Tegile for VMware ESXi

VMware Server Virtualization with Tegile Zebi Arrays
Tegile Zebi Storage Arrays combine flash memory for performance
and hard disk drives for capacity and economy. Setting the Tegile
Zebi product line apart is inline deduplication based on metadata
acceleration. With active/active controllers, non-disruptive firmware
upgrades, and no single point of failure (SPOF), Zebi Arrays are
optimized for maximum uptime. Fully featured, the management
software includes snapshots, clones, compression, thin provisioning,
and remote replication, along with a full suite of protocols which
includes iSCSI, FC, NFS, and CIFS.
Why Tegile for VMware ESXi
Zebi Arrays are built from the ground up to provide high
performance, availability, manageability, and to dramatically reduce
storage consumption in VMware environments. Additionally, deep
integration with VMware, through various APIs, makes Zebi Arrays
ideal for VMware deployments.
Application Performance
“The technology portfolio that
the Tegile devices have was
paramount to our decision in this
process. Tegile’s approach to the
technology is: Here’s the device
and you can pretty much do
anything you want.“
Jeremy DeHart
Information Technology Manager
Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo LLP
Highlights
•High Performance
•Storage Optimization
•High Availability
•VM-Consistent & Application
Consistent Recovery
•VMware-Integrated
Management
Integration with VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration) leverages
the inherent performance advantages of Zebi Arrays by offloading
I/O workload from ESXi hosts and reducing network traffic between
the storage array and hosts. This allows CPU cycles and network
bandwidth to be devoted to application performance rather than
managing conventional storage operations.
•The first workload to offload to the Zebi
Array is VMDK initialization. Instead of
sending several commands between
storage devices, the host sends a single
command to the Zebi Array to begin
VMDK initialization. This facilitates fast
VM creation.
•The second workload to offload to the
Zebi Array is Full Copy. This offloads
copy operations to the Zebi Array, and
again reduces load on the host and
network. Having the Full Copy function
on the Zebi Array results in faster VM
cloning and migration.
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•Finally, Hardware Assisted Locking facilitates consistent
performance by avoiding locking up an entire LUN during metadata
updates for a single VM. This is accomplished with Zebi Array
support of Atomic Test and Set (ATS).
Storage Optimization
Storage Optimization allows you to purchase less storage, thereby
providing you with a much lower TCO (total cost of ownership).
Other advantages of Zebi Arrays:
•Inline Deduplication to eliminate blocks across VM images and data,
while compression reduces the space consumed by remaining VM
images and data. VMware integrated snapshots consume only
small amounts of space because they use pointers and only copy
metadata.
“The value proposition for buying
Tegile was simply overwhelming.“
Rob Henderson
Executive Director of Cyber Infrastructure
University of the Pacific
•Zebi Array Thin Provisioning supports Just-In-Time Provisioning.
Thin Provisioning facilitates adding physical storage when you
need it rather than over-provisioning at initial storage set up.
•Zebi Arrays support the VAAI Stun command, which can be used to
pause VMs to add additional physical storage.
•The VAAI UNMAP command supports Block Reclamation in Thin
Provisioned environments.
•One Zebi Array can run multiple protocols concurrently. Block
supported protocols include iSCSI and FC, and file protocols include
NFS and CIFS. File shares can be provided using NFS and CIFS. The
net result is one Zebi Array, running multiple workloads, leveraging
common personnel, skills, tools, and interfaces. This eliminates the
need to buy different storage arrays for different protocols.
Availability
Zebi Array Thin Snapshots are key to protecting and quickly
restoring customer data. Tight integration with VMware vCenter
enables Zebi Arrays to take VM-consistent snapshots. Tegile Data
Protection Services (TDPS) is integrated with MS VSS to achieve
application-consistent snapshots for MS Windows VMs.
About Tegile Systems, Inc.
Tegile is pioneering a new generation of affordable,
feature-rich storage arrays that are up to 7x faster,
and require up to 75% less capacity than standard
arrays. IT departments use Zebi arrays to reduce the
cost and increase the performance of demanding
virtualization, file share and database applications.
Tegile is led by a successful team of industry veterans
and is committed to a philosophy of “customer first.”
To learn more about Tegile Systems and Zebi, visit
us at http://www.tegile.com or call us toll free and
1-855-5TE-GILE.
Manageability
Use VMware vCenter to centrally manage Zebi Arrays.
Create, manage, and monitor datastores and snapshots
from VMware vCenter. The Tegile VMware vCenter plugin
also supports both web and Windows clients. VMware VMAware reporting at the VM level provides VM IO metrics for
NFS datastores.
The words Tegile and Zebi are trademarks of Tegile Systems, Inc. All other marks belong to their respective owners. © Tegile Systems, Inc. 2014

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