Gridstore has integrated Gridstore 3 with Microsoft System Center 2012, enabling a critical component in delivery of the Cloud Data Center.†The Cloud Data Center offers IT resources for applications as needed and can scale to meet demand, boasting a far lower cost than traditional infrastructure.†
Gridstore’s integration with System Center allows for management of all resources via a single console.† With System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) integration, Gridstore delivers policy-based provisioning and orchestration of storage resources at VM-level granularity including key characteristics such as Quality of Service and Data Protection Schemes.
Gridstore’s integration with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) provides a birds-eye view of VM storage resources including historical and real-time correlated performance statistics, heat maps for isolating potential resource bottlenecks, and drill downs for quick troubleshooting to meet SLAs.†
Gridstore’s patented software-defined-storage allows users to start small and scale nondisruptively over time. The more nodes in a configuration, the more network bandwidth, more cache, more processing power, and more capacity that ultimately delivers linear performance scalability. The Gridstore solution is delivered as storage nodes built on standard X86 hardware.
Gridstore’s end-to-end control, from the server with its patented vController installed, to storage nodes with Gridstore’s added value technology, creates an isolated IO lane for each VM and auto optimizes to enable optimal application IO. Coupled with Gridstore Quality-of-Service TrueQoS, IO per-VM can be controlled to allow the most critical applications receive the highest priority, delivering the right performance, and prioritization of resources when and where they are needed.
“We are seeing an emergence of the cloud data center as a way to enable scale, reduce complexity, and increase efficiency,” says Simon Robinson, research vice president, The 451 Group, “Ultimately this enables not just elastic resources, but VM-centricity in resources, for ultimate quality of service.”
System Center integration will be available this quarter.†All current and new customers running Gridstore 3 can upgrade with no disruption or hardware change.
