On the management front, Vizioncore announced its Global Alliance Partner Program, which is designed to more tightly integrate data backup, data migration, and replication for VMware environments.
LeftHand Networks released a software version of its SAN hardware. This software product runs as a virtual machine on an ESX Server and does not require a separate physical SAN.
Emulex announced an ESX-compatible host bus adapter that permits a separate connection for each virtual machine and sets the foundation for fabric zoning, a SAN security feature.
With regard to replication and disaster recovery, VMware itself announced its own Site Recovery Manager, which is intended to simplify and automate failover for replication and disaster recovery.
Finally, Symantec announced support of VMware environments with its VERITAS Cluster Server product. Cluster Server is a disaster recovery product that provides automatic failover from one site to another in the event that one site is lost for any reason.
Re: Storage companies >> virtualization companies at VMworld?
Maybe I'm missing something, but it was VMworld, not VirtualizationWorld. I would expect to see more storage vendors than virtualization vendors.
I enjoyed meeting and talking to VMware staff, learning more about VCB and VDI, getting unanswered questions answered, putting faces to VMTN names, and punking SurferDave about Smash Mouth.
