INDEX

• UPCOMING EVENTS

• FEATURE ARTICLE
  Predictive Data Migration
  Delivers Advanced Data Protection

• NEWS ON SUPPORT & SERVICES
  Getting support by using our Electronic Support Request

• FEATURED PRODUCTS
  EqualLogic PS Series and VMware Server Virtualization

UPCOMING EVENTS

Nov. 8th Thursday
Lunch and Learn "VMware/Disaster Recovery Seminar"
Location: Dallas, TX

FEATURED ARTICLE

Predictive Data Migration
Delivers Advanced Data Protection

Predictive Data Migration (PDM) included in the Astra ES
and SA family of RAID solutions proactively monitors the
drives to migrate data from a “unhealthy” drive to a new
healthy drive. If a physical drive reaches a predetermined
error threshold (becomes ‘unhealthy’), the data on the
‘unhealthy’ drive is copied directly to a hot-spare drive before the unhealthy drive fails. Since the drive is replaced in the background before it fails, the chance of data loss is dramatically reduced and eliminates the need for a complicated and time-intensive RAID XOR drive rebuild all together. The time to migrate data can be up to 5 times faster than a traditional RAID 5 rebuild.

Additional advanced features included for the Astra ES and SA family of RAID solutions included a Media Scan which check the physical media of the disk drive and Redundancy Check which checks that data and parity information. All of these can be ran manually or scheduled to run as a back ground task.

NEWS ON SUPPORT & SERVICES

Getting support by using our
Electronic Support Request

If you ever have a problem with an Excel Meridian Data storage product, you can quickly and easily submit an electronic support request via our website at http://www.emdstorage.com/support/contact.shtml.

The request will be immediately acknowledged by our Support System via email, confirming the receipt of your issue, and providing an incident number and contact instructions. If your request is received during normal business hours, a knowledgeable technician will personally review your case and respond to it very quickly, in most cases, less than 1 hour. Remember, normal business hours are Monday through Friday 7:30am to 6:30pm. If you require after hours support, 24x7 phone support contracts are available – contact sales for a quote.

Thought of The Month:

“Here is a simple but powerful rule – Always give people
more than what they expect to get.” – Nelson Boswell

Don't forget to stop by our website to check our Feature Products and Monthly Special.

FEATURED PRODUCTS

EqualLogic, based in Nashua, NH launched its first product in June 2003, and since then they have gained more than 2,500 customers, 400 partners, and 15% market share, while opening offices in Europe and Asia and earning many prestigious technology awards.

EqualLogic proves to be one of the best, if not the best IP SAN, wins consecutive awards including “SAN Product Of The Year,” receives recognition and notoriety from publications like: TECHWORLD.COM, eWEEK Excellence Awards, Storage Awards, and InfoWorld Test Center.

Best of all EqualLogic PS Series arrays are fully qualified and supported in VMware Infrastructure 3 environments. Excel Meridian Data is certified and authorized reseller for VMware. VMware’s innovation, excellence and strategic importance have been recognized by more than 120 industry accolades and awards.

VMware:
A primary goal of virtualization technology is to increase
resource management and flexibility. VMware’s virtualization approach makes it possible to run multiple instances of VMs on each server, sharing hardware resources and thereby getting higher utilization of existing hardware.

Virtualization with VMware can result in major improvements in the areas of:

• Server consolidation and containment
• Testing optimization
• Responsiveness to new or changed requirements
• High Availability

Server Virtualization Products

• VMware Infrastructure
        •  VMware ESX Server
        •  VMware Virtual SMP
        •  VMware High Availability (HA)
        •  VMware DRS
        •  VMware Vmotion
        •  VMware VMFS
        •  VMware Consolidated Backup
• VMware Virtural Center
• VMware Lab Manager

EqualLogic - Enterprise Class Solution

EqualLogic value proposition is simple; you get more for your money in enterprise class storage solution. Its modular, all-inclusive design allows you to demand capacity growth while maintaining a single point of management – regardless of scale or array type. 

EqualLogic also gives you everything you are looking for (at no additional cost) in disaster recovery tools and more advanced data protection including: cloning, replication, snapshots, Smart Copy, and instant restore.  Plus more advanced functionality with automatic load balancing, multi-path I/O, consistency sets and thin provisioning. 

Set up is less than 20 minutes and self management makes it easy to use.

EqualLogic and VMware

EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SANs provide a dynamic and
scalable virtual environment. EqualLogic PS Series storage
arrays are a perfect complement to VMware server
virtualization products. Both products virtualize their part of the environment with the intention of reducing TCO through:

• Optimized asset utilization
• Reduced deployment time
• Reduced management complexity
• High availability
• High scalability
• Increased flexibility

For more detail: http://www.emdstorage.com/products/equallogic/