Symantec and VMware Form New Disaster Recovery Team
January 11, 2009 by AntivirusWare.Symantec have made plans to collaborate with VMware to sell its disaster recovery products for virtual environments, as companies move more and more toward virtualization.
VMware ESX will be integrated with Symantec’s Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) disaster recovery product, in order to better serve mutual customers of the two companies. Support will be provided for this package through TSANet, a database that allows its participating vendors to use it for the coordination of support responses, and also for the exchange of support information.
VMware have announced that they are pleased that Symantec are delivering solutions, like Veritas Cluster Server (VC) that integrate with and complement the value of VMware virtualization. This was according to a statement issued by Shekar Ayyar, vice president of infrastructure alliances at VMware.
Symantec’s VCS is designed to protect applications from unplanned downtime. It does so by protecting the applications from local fall over of virtual machines. Virtualization has a dark side. It creates a complex environment, and while this can improve flexibility and asset utilization, it can also add complexity to the environment. This happens through the addition of a hyper visor layer to the operating and management load and increased complexity of virtualized input and output. VCS also protects against fall over between clusters in a remote location. VCS is integrated with VMware VCenter.
The software is designed to supplement VMotion. It will be used for reducing planned downtime. It will also be used as a Distributed Resource Scheduler, and active workload management.