3PAR unveils new InForm software plug-ins for vSphere, vCentre

To provide VM-aware snapshots, online recovery and VM-to-storage mapping

3PAR, a provider of utility storage, has unveiled new InForm software plug-ins for VMware vSphere and VMware vCentre Server which provide virtual machine (VM)-aware snapshots, online VM recovery and VM-to-storage mapping.

Together, 3PAR Recovery Manager for VMware vSphere and the 3PAR Management plug-in for VMware vCentre Server enable joint 3PAR and VMware customers to protect, recover, and manage virtual machines and related storage resources in their virtual datacentre and cloud computing environments, the company said.

According to 3PAR, the Recovery Manager for VMware vSphere was designed to give VMware administrators the benefits of provisioning of new virtual machines from VM copies, use of storage resources for disk-based VM backup and recovery, and granularity over the recovery process by enabling the creation of hundreds of VM-aware, point-in-time snapshots without the use of agents. Recovery Manager gives administrators automated protection and recovery of virtual machine disks (VMDKs), VMware vStorage virtual machine file systems (VMFS), individual VMs and individual files within vSphere environments.

The company said that the new management plug-in for VMware vCentre Server to give administrators access to management capabilities from within the VMware vCentre Server management console. In addition, quality of service (QoS) characteristics for individual storage volumes such as RAID level, subsystem failure protection level, drive type and volume type are now displayed within the console.

David Scott, president and CEO of 3PAR, said: Our highly virtualised InServ platform already gives VMware vSphere customers improved efficiency and ROI for their virtual datacentre and cloud computing environments. Now 3PAR and VMware have come together to give joint customers a new way to get more out of VMware vSphere with enhanced visibility, VM snapshot capability, and granular, rapid online recovery from within the VMware vCentre Server management console.

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