Brocade partners Microsoft to deliver optimised server virtualisation solutions
ConvergenceAsia staff
19/11/2007

Brocade, a provider of data center networking solutions, is working with Microsoft to bring greater application mobility and higher levels of reliability to data centers deploying Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007.

Key Brocade Storage Area Network (SAN) products support Access Gateway, an N_Port ID Virtualisation (NPIV)-based technology that enables multiple virtual servers to share and connect over a single physical interface. Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager uses these Brocade-enabled SAN connections for easier application mobility, increased availability, and greater system reliability.

"Virtualisation is fundamentally changing the data center," said Tom Buiocchi, Brocade Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. "Brocade has partnered with Microsoft to deliver optimised blade server and server virtualisation solutions that improve asset utilisation in evolving data centers."

When used together in a virtual server environment running Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Brocade Access Gateway technology and System Center Virtual Machine Manager optimise and simplify the often complex relationship between server and storage connectivity in the data center.

"System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 helps customers to assess and consolidate suitable server workloads onto virtual machines, freeing up physical resources for repurposing or hardware retirement," said David Greschler, director of System Center marketing at Microsoft.

"We're working with Brocade to simplify server and storage connectivity, and providing customers scalable storage infrastructure for virtualised IT environments.”

Microsoft, Greschler added, also looks forward to partnering with Brocade on other solutions in support of System Center systems management products.

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