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Dot Hill AssuredUVS Unified Virtual Storage Solutions Verified as Citrix Ready with Citrix XenServer
June 2011 by Marc Jacob
Dot Hill Systems Corp. announced it has joined the Citrix Ready® program. Participating in the program, Dot Hill AssuredUVS™ has achieved full verification with Citrix XenServer®. AssuredUVS version 2.4 is the first member of Dot Hill’s portfolio to achieve Citrix Ready verification.
Dot Hill AssuredUVS unified virtual storage appliances complement Citrix server virtualisation solutions by paving the way for easier data migration and provisioning, creating a flexible, scalable system for managing diverse brands of storage and a platform for leveraging utility and cloud storage resources. Just as Citrix XenServer allows customers to gain greater leverage from server investments, the AssuredUVS thin provisioning management feature allows IT managers to provision more precisely as needs grow and manage storage growth more efficiently.
“Citrix has a significant installed base in Linux and Windows environments with its XenServer platform,” said Jim Jonez, senior director of marketing, Dot Hill. “Citrix Ready AssuredUVS products assure organisations that they can confidently deploy our solutions in Citrix XenServer environments and reap the numerous benefits of unified virtual storage, including increased productivity and reduced labour and infrastructure costs.”
“The compatibility between Dot Hill’s AssuredUVS solutions and XenServer will allow our mutual customers to virtualise their entire infrastructure from servers to storage,” said Sameer Dholakia, vice president, Datacentre and Cloud Division, Citrix. “By balancing workloads in virtual server environments, they can improve their storage performance and efficiency.”
Dot Hill AssuredUVS – Solutions for Unified Virtual Storage
Dot Hill AssuredUVS solutions bring the benefits of storage virtualisation to the SMB and SME markets, by combining the requisite software, servers and storage into a versatile appliance that can consolidate organisations’ multi-vendor storage assets, improve storage efficiencies, simplify management and create more IT and business flexibility. Dot Hill’s AssuredUVS solutions are dedicated appliances that consolidate and virtualise storage across storage protocols including Fibre Channel and iSCSI for block storage and NFS and CIFS protocols for NAS shares. AssuredUVS appliances also support mixed OS host environments, and mixed storage platforms to support multiple server applications. This enables organisations to manage combinations of block storage and file storage via a common set of data management features such as snapshots, thin provisioning, tiered provisioning, replication, synchronous mirroring, and data migration all from a single user interface.
