EMC Expands “Data Protection Everywhere” Portfolio For VMware Environments

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) announced new products and support that optimize the protection of VMware workloads across the spectrum of VMware environments to enable protection everywhere. 

A recent survey of over 2700 business and IT professionals in Europe, the Middle East and Africa undertaken for EMC by Arlington Research reported that 80% of CIOs believe a scalable, flexible converged infrastructure will provide the platform for growth. The survey revealed an increased interest in converged and hyper converged infrastructure to help CIOs address concerns about the readiness of current IT infrastructure and skills to meet long term needs as technology becomes embedded across more aspects of the business.   

The integration between EMC’s data protection portfolio and VMware software empowers vAdmins to provision, monitor and manage the protection of their virtual workloads through the standard VMware interface. This includes enhanced support for VMware Virtual SAN, VMware vSphere and expanded data protection options for VCE® VxRail Appliances. 

EMC Data Protection and VCE VxRail Appliances

As IT organizations increasingly look to hyper-converged infrastructure appliances (HCIAs) to simplify and improve operational efficiency for more and more use cases, they need a wider range of additional capabilities and more cost effective scaling to support those workloads

VCE VxRail Appliance customers can now expand on its built-in protection capabilities and leverage a wider range of EMC data protection products to provide application consistency for backups as well as comprehensive monitoring, reporting and backup file search capabilities.  

With the EMC Data Protection Suite for VMware and EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition announcements, EMC is making the extended protection of Virtual Machines on VxRail Appliances:

Simple

• Simplified management makes of data protection for VMs fast and easy 
• Centralized monitoring, analysis, reporting and search of backup data gives users one place to find out everything they need to know
• A single vendor approach offers a unified point of contact for sales and support from hardware to software to protection and enables management through a single native interface

Fast

• Backup times can be reduced by up to 50% 
• Recovery times are up to 30x faster when compared to traditional image-level restores 
• By deploying solutions that are built to work together, data protection for VMs on VxRail Appliances can be up-and-running in minutes

Efficient

• Protection storage requirements can be reduced by up to 30x
• Up to 1,000 virtual machines can be continually protected for zero RPOπ
• Software-defined protection storage offers simple deployment
• Support for mission-critical applications, including Exchange, SAP, SQL, SharePoint, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, and IBM Domino for backup and replicationπ

EMC Data Protection and VMware Virtual SAN and VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering

For organizations leveraging VMware Virtual SAN, the Data Protection Suite for VMware also provides industry-leading Disaster Recovery support for Virtual SAN through EMC RecoverPoint for VMs. Having announced at VMworld 2015 that EMC would become VMware’s first replication design partner, this year, EMC becomes the only VM replication vendor to support VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering, as it brings a fully integrated virtual replication data services through RecoverPoint for VMs.

Availability:

EMC Data Protection Suite for VMware is available today. EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition is available today. EMC RecoverPoint for VMs supports VMware vSphere APIs for IO filtering integration today. EMC Unity and EMC VMAX support Virtual Volumes currently. 

Executive Quotes:

Beth Phalen, Senior Vice President and GM of Data Protection and Availability Solutions, EMC 

“Businesses need data protection everywhere – and that’s as true with virtual machines and converged appliances as it is for traditional storage arrays. EMC’s portfolio approach to data protection, and deep integration with VMware, means that we’re able to offer solutions that can protect data wherever it is and empower our customers to manage their data protection through the native VMware management consoles. EMC’s investment and leadership in data protection for VMware environments is a true testament to EMC and VMware’s better together strategy.”

Yanbing Li, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Storage and Availability Business Unit, VMware

“Data protection has quickly become a mainstream requirement now that the majority of Virtual SAN customers are running business-critical applications. By integrating with VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering, RecoverPoint for VMs is a great disaster recovery solution, offering up to zero RPO with any point in time recovery via a highly resilient, no-single-point-of-failure architecture for the most advanced Virtual SAN topologies. This integration makes it easy for customers to optimize the protection of their VM data and enables our customers to have a tightly integrated, efficient, and resilient solution.”