Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers will now be a part of 3PAR’s Cloud Support. With this announcement, 3PAR InServ Storage Server customers can choose the enterprise-class Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor to build and deploy a virtualization environment on a scale necessary for public or private cloud datacenters.

“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization builds on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform, which is trusted by many organizations around the world for their mission-critical workloads,” said Navin Thadani, Senior Director, Virtualization Business at Red Hat. “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provides compelling performance and scalability at a lower total cost of ownership, and the portfolio is well-suited to be deployed as a foundational cloud technology.”

3PAR Stated in a press release earlier today “With this expansion of the server virtualization platforms currently supported by the 3PAR InForm Operating System, joint 3PAR and Red Hat customers are now able to leverage Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to gain access to the following benefits of combining highly virtualized storage with server virtualization:

--  Up to 50% reduction in physical server purchases. 3PAR Utility Storage
    has been shown to increase virtual server performance without
    sacrificing reliability, which in some cases allows server
    virtualization customers to double the number of virtual machines
    configurable per physical server (also known as "VM density") without
    sacrificing performance or reliability. This means that Red Hat
    Enterprise Virtualization users may be able to purchase and deploy up
    to 50% fewer physical servers by choosing 3PAR Utility Storage over
    traditional storage arrays.

--  Simplified administration. 3PAR Utility Storage has been shown to
    reduce customer storage administration time by up to 90% in virtual
    server environments. The InServ platform includes autonomic storage
    management features designed to complement Red Hat Enterprise
    Virtualization, such as 3PAR Autonomic Groups. Combining the
    administration benefits of highly virtualized 3PAR Utility Storage
    with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization results in a leaner, more agile
    datacenter that can require less time to manage and maintain than
    datacenters using traditional storage.

--  Greater cost savings. 3PAR Utility Storage arrays reduce customer
    storage capacity requirements via thin technologies that break the
    traditional link between allocated and purchased capacity. For
    example, by leveraging 3PAR Thin Provisioning software during the
    up-front provisioning of storage resources, Red Hat customers are able
    to purchase and consume physical storage capacity only as needed. In
    addition, 3PAR's new Get Thin Guarantee program guarantees qualifying
    customers converting from existing "fat" volumes on traditional
    storage to new thin volumes on 3PAR a 50% reduction in storage
    capacity needed to support their Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
    deployments.

“Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an important platform for 3PAR customers,” said Craig Nunes, 3PAR Vice President of Marketing. “By combining the new Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor with 3PAR Utility Storage, we believe that service providers and other organizations building their own private clouds can get the job done on top of their existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment with fewer servers and less storage, in less time.”

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