LeftHand Networks announced that their iSCSI SAN solution powered by SAN/iQ 6.6 has achieved VMware ESX Server 3 certification and is now listed on VMware's Storage / SAN compatibility guide. LeftHand Networks attempts to offer its customers the ability to "break free" from vendor lock-in and give their customers the freedom to build enterprise-class storage solutions on their choice of hardware. The breadth of LeftHand Networks announced that their iSCSI SAN solution powered by SAN/iQ 6.6 has achieved VMware ESX Server 3 certification and is now listed on VMware’s Storage / SAN compatibility guide.LeftHand Networks attempts to offer its customers the ability to “break free” from vendor lock-in and give their customers the freedom to build enterprise-class storage solutions on their choice of hardware. The breadth of SAN/iQ powered platforms include the HP ProLiant DL380 server, IBM System x3650, LeftHand NSM 260 and NSM 160. The first x86 server to be certified with SAN/iQ and VMware Infrastructure 3 is the HP ProLiant DL380. LeftHand’s SAN/iQ complements VI3 with the following enterprise-class capabilities: VMware Infrastructure 3 enables the creation of new virtual machines to meet increasing infrastructure demands in the production data center or to create new environments for software development and testing. SAN/iQ complements this process by allowing users to clone storage volumes almost instantaneously and with minimal additional use of storage. VMware VMotion technology, a component of VMware Infrastructure 3, migrates running virtual machines with their operating systems and applications from one physical server to another with zero downtime, allowing users to balance workloads or perform server maintenance without affecting service levels. SAN/iQ offers similar storage functionality, allowing volumes to be moved from one cluster to another with zero downtime and without modifying the VMware environment. VMware High Availability (HA), another component of VMware Infrastructure 3, provides uniform business continuity for all applications by automatically re-starting virtual machines affected by server failure. SAN/iQ architecture allows organizations to distribute their storage networks so that access to the virtual machines’ storage volumes can continue uninterrupted even through the loss of an entire data center. LeftHand’s clustered open iSCSI SAN technology combined with VMware Infrastructure 3 offers customers virtualized, highly available and completely scalable server and storage environments, while allowing customers to reduce overall IT costs and implement server consolidation strategies.Still have questions? Check out LeftHand’s SAN/iQ software demonstration, here. Software Development