Tracking enterprise technology transformation
Maxta provides dramatically better economics over external storage arrays
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Maxta announced that VSS Monitoring, a world leader in network packet brokers, has implemented its highly resilient, scalable distributed VM Storage platform (MxSP™). MxSP improves the performance, automation and ease of use of VSS Monitoring’s virtualized infrastructure to satisfy current needs and expected future growth of its engineering IT infrastructure.
VSS Monitoring’s engineering group runs a diverse set of applications in a VMware vSphere environment, including testing and development of its solutions. The virtualized environment is planned to grow significantly over time and several virtual machines are expected to require very high storage performance. To extend the life of its engineering IT infrastructure beyond the initial 3-year expectancy, VSS Monitoring looked for a way to improve storage performance without spending an unreasonable amount of money. After evaluating several shared storage array options, the company chose MxSP, which provides all the features and functions it needs for 20% of the acquisition cost of the other options.
“The test and development VMs would require a high amount of IOPS and unfortunately with a shared architecture it would cause a performance hit to all of our virtual machines in the cluster,” said Mike Leland, VSS Monitoring Data Center Engineer. “The performance of our system with Maxta’s software platform is orders of magnitude faster. We’re looking at about twice as many IOPS depending on the workload. It’s a large improvement over what we had before as far as storage performance. The unlimited number of time/performance/capacity efficient snapshots and zero-copy clones simplifies the setup and management of testing and development environments.”
It’s always interesting to see what technologies customers are using as well as hear about new solutions to resolve business challenges, in this case it’s VSS Monitoring adopting Maxta’s solution, it’s something I had read about but didn’t manage to get around to putting together a post about. They launched recently, you can see more about their launch and offering here and they live at this url.
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