About VMDC 3.0
Virtual machine cloning is now easier than ever with the new NexentaStorTM Virtual Machine DataCenter 3.0 (VMDC) plug-in. The rise of server virtualization has provided greater impetus to deduplication since virtual machines, and their associated storage, can consume a significant amount of high-performance, expensive primary storage. Before NexentaStor, deduplication technology has been available only at a high price from vendors who have built proprietary, siloed solutions that impact only secondary data – either disk-based backup and replication or archiving and compliance. As a result, an organization can have multiple deduplication approaches – and data stores – that do not work with each other, thereby dramatically increasing costs.

Features
The NexentaStor VMDC 3.0 application dramatically simplifies the experience of storage and system administrators in setting storage policies for their virtual environments and in performing common tasks such as stopping and starting VMs and performing template-based clones. VMDC 3.0 highlights include:

• Easy Installation: using standard system utilities, installation is easy.
• DataCenter: user interface that discovers all ESX or Xen servers - as well as HyperV and all other VMs on the servers - allows you to manage the storage aspects of all your virtual servers from one location.
• Replication Policies: user establishment of replication policies for each VM, including common tasks such as stopping and starting VMs. NexentaStor VMDC also supports storage migration and migration of VMs.
• Lightning Fast Cloning: clone VMs in 90% less time while consuming 80-90% less storage space (Example: create over 300 identical VMs in under a minute, saving hours and 90% of the storage space required if cloned through vSphere). Bring out the full power of VMDC by pairing NexentaStor with SSDs to access and clone your data even faster!
• Capacity Utilization: utillizing ZFS technology, NexentaStor supports in- line deduplication and thin provisioning, which seamlessly leverage SSDs, making NexentaStor great for the random I/O of virtualized environments.
• Flexibility: NexentaStor is optimized to work with VMware and Xen servers, but also performs well in a variety of other virtualized environments.

VMDC Support for Microsoft Hyper-V
NexentaStor 3.0 also includes support for Microsoft Hyper-V, making it the only storage solution to support all major virtualization environments. With its new support for Microsoft Hyper-V, NexentaStor is the only product to support VMware, Citrix Xen and Hyper-V virtualization platforms from a single point within one unified environment,VMDC.VMDC allows storage administrators to see their entire virtual environment and to provision storage and storage policies including backup, replication and retention policies from a simple point and click interface.