HP and VMware have unveiled new integrated storage, desktop and connectivity offerings, which it claims to help customers deploy virtualisation offerings in a converged infrastructure framework and transform their data centres to enable cloud computing.
The companies have combined VMware vSphere Essentials Plus with the HP P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA), which complements ‘always-on’ IT from VMware for small and medium businesses (SMBs) with highly available storage from HP. It provides backup and recovery with shared storage capabilities to help SMBs start on the path to cloud-based IT services.
Midsize customers can consolidate up to 600% more virtualised storage, reduce complexity, improve capacity utilisation and lower management costs with the new HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) Cluster verified to work with VMware vSphere, the companies claim.
For virtual desktop environments, the companies have developed a converged infrastructure reference architecture for VMware View featuring the new HP P4800 BladeSystem SAN.
The companies claim that the modular server, storage and networking architecture offers three times the productivity for IT administrators, supports 1,600 users at 50% less cost and requires 60% less space than traditional client virtualisation implementations.
The new HP Virtual Connect certified to work with VMware vSphere helps customers to simplify and scale infrastructure virtualisation. The new HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric module provides scalability for up to four times more virtual machines per blade.
In addition, HP provides cloud consulting offerings on HP and VMware technologies to help customers build their own private cloud offerings and deploy management, disaster recovery and business continuity, as well as desktop virtualisation across their infrastructures.