IBM System Storage N series with VMware vSphere 5

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Benefits of N series with VMware vSphere 5.1

This chapter outlines the benefits that the IBM System Storage N series provides to VMware vSphere 5.1 environments. It includes the following topics:

•Increased protection with RAID-DP

•Cloning virtual machines

•N series LUNs for VMWare host boot

•N series LUNs for VMFS datastores

•Using N series LUNs for Raw Device Mappings

•Growing VMFS datastores

•Backup and recovery of virtual infrastructure (SnapVault, Snapshot, SnapMirror)

•Using N series deduplication with VMware

3.1 Increased protection with ...

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