Partner Spotlight: VMware

Organizations are taking advantage of virtualized servers and storage to run myriad back-office applications such as email, customer databases, manufacturing systems and other highly I/O driven data transfers. In fact, three out of four businesses depend on virtualization technology, with the vast majority of these (over 70%) using VMware ESXi™ as their primary hypervisor. These businesses depend on the reliability, performance and manageability of their VMware software and hardware ecosystem.

VMware ESXi is the world’s leading hypervisor. The prime benefits of implementing a VMware environment are the flexibility, scalability and agility of virtual ecosystems. The speed of provisioning and the ease of management add to the benefits for those architecting hybrid cloud, remote workgroup and disaster recovery solutions.

ATTO has been optimizing storage networking and connectivity products for VMware environments for well over a decade. ATTO partners with VMware through their Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) VMware Ready™ program. VMware Ready is the highest level of endorsement, making it easy to identify products optimized for VMware. Using VMware approved solutions from ATTO can lower project risks and lead to cost savings over custom-built solutions.

As an example, ATTO XstreamCORE® intelligent bridges expand storage options for vSAN™ by disaggregating storage. With XstreamCORE, you can add a SAN to any architecture, dramatically speeding up virtual machine migrations, allowing for hardware-accelerated remote backups, and easy storage management among many other functions. We go into detail on how to add external storage to vSAN hosts on our VMware DAS Over FC Solution Guide page.

ATTO ThunderLink® Thunderbolt™ adapters with ATTO VMware Ready certified ESXi drivers. support virtualizing an Apple Mac Pro® or Mac mini®. ATTO ThunderLink adapters are the only purpose-built Thunderbolt product designed to connect virtualized Macs to Fibre Channel storage solutions within VMware VSphere® environments.

Indeed, the range of ATTO products certified with VMware ESXi covers many use cases. From diagnostics and configuration management with vConfigTool™, Fibre Channel and SAS/SATA HBAs optimized for virtual environments, to Thunderbolt connectivity with ATTO ThunderLink adapters and SAN creation and management with ATTO XstreamCORE intelligent bridges. You can find detailed examples in our ATTO VMware Application Guide.

See more ATTO solutions for VMware on our solutions page.