agámi Systems announced that the agámi Information Server 3000 and 6000 series have been certified for VMware ESX Server, a component of VMware Infrastructure, along with the recently released AIS1006 storage system.

The agámi Information Server 3000 & 6000 series, and the new AIS1006 system, are now included in the Storage/SAN Compatibility Guide for VMware ESX Server as a supported storage platform. This compatibility is designed to provide customers with an integrated and jointly supported environment when deploying VMware virtualization technology with a unified storage solution from agámi Systems.

"Certification with VMware Infrastructure will be extremely beneficial for our clients as they look for storage solutions that can provide the necessary consolidation, performance, reliability and scalability for multiple virtualized environments. A unified solution from agámi Systems with built-in disaster recovery and high availability offers industry-leading virtualization features that can support up to 256 iSCSI targets and 1024 volumes, thereby improving the flexibility to configure for multiple applications, enhance security, and improve data management," says David Stiles, CEO, agámi Systems, Inc. "Implementing an agámi solution for VMware environments enables customers to maximize their VMware investment, and optimize data center management for greater operational efficiency."

"Working together with agámi Systems offers our joint customers the high efficiency and performance of a unified NAS/IP SAN solution in conjunction with VMware Infrastructure," says Parag Patel, vice president, alliances at VMware. "This combination is designed to enable the management of both storage and server environments to be optimized through consolidation."

agámi Systems offers a storage solution for VMware environments in that is a NAS/IP SAN unified solution that eliminates the complexity associated with traditional SAN solutions. It enables snapshots, replication & high-availability plus full multi-protocol support of iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, NDMP and SNMP.

The VMware certification applies to the following line of agámi Information Servers: AIS3004, AIS3006, AIS3009, AIS6112, AIS6119, AIS6124, and AIS1006.

agámi Systems is a member of the VMware Technology Alliance Program. Membership in the program allows agámi Systems and VMware to collaborate on go-to-market efforts and technical solutions in support of mutual customers.