Juniper's QFabric Now Interoperable With EMC VMAX And VNX Storage Systems

Juniper Networks has announced that its QFabric family of products has completed rigorous testing through EMC E-Lab and is qualified to interoperate with EMC VMAX and VNX storage arrays. In addition, Juniper Networks QFabric system has been added to EMC’s Support Matrix.

EMC E-Lab has completed rigorous interoperability testing on the QFabric solution in an end-to-end, multivendor environment, which included testing and qualification of solutions with hypervisors, operating systems, Converged Network Adapters (CNA), Fibre Channel, Ethernet Switches, and EMC VMAX and EMC VNX storage systems. The qualification adds Juniper Networks QFX3500 10GbE top-of-rack switch, QFX3000-M QFabric System and QFX3000-G QFabric System to EMC’s Support Matrix.

The QFabric/EMC interoperability means customers can easily plan, deploy and scale to support growing data storage environments, and quickly respond to changes in their data center networks using the Juniper Networks QFabric system or QFX3500 Switch in EMC VMAX and VNX storage environments.

“By qualifying Juniper’s QFabric family of products through the rigorous EMC E-Lab testing process, customers can confidently deploy QFabric within EMC VMAX and EMC VNX storage environments as they transform their IT infrastructures,” said Carolyn Muise, Senior Director, EMC E-Lab Worldwide Operations, EMC.

“With the volume of business data doubling every year, simplified storage convergence has become strategic to datacentres. More than ever, customers want vendors to take complexity out of the equation, making the Juniper Network QFabric family of products ideal for connecting storage environments. With the latest interoperability testing, customers can confidently deploy the industry’s most comprehensive network fabric solution with the leading storage provider,” Denise Shiffman, Vice President, Product Management and Strategy, Juniper Networks.