Storage Technology Research Library

This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure. It examines how unnecessary cost can be reduced and even eliminated by combining server virtualization technology with utility storage. The resulting combination of VMware and 3PAR technologies is a powerful virtualized utility computing platform that increases server and storage utilization, provides greater provisioning agility, and simplifies administration and management.