The Virtualization of Storage: DataCore Software Obtains Significant Improvements in Terms of Shared Storage VMware
Fort Lauderdale, FA, March 09, 2009 -- Visitors to VMworld Europe in 2009 were the first to learn how new versions of the solutions storage virtualization DataCore SANmelody ™ and SANsymphony ™ results in improved performance across the network in a SAN and use of discs radically simple, optimal and highly available to customers VMware virtual infrastructure. The new line of solutions VMware Ready Certified for DataCore ™ were presented in Europe in Cannes, France. For more information, visit Blog: The Virtualization of Storage http://datacore-storage-virtualizzazione.blogspot.com/
The "Mega Cache" 64-bit performance increase over the SAN network
Leading the list of new features of SANmelody 3.0 and SANsymphony 7.0 is the support of 64 mega-bit cache. "The storage of consolidated data on a large scale, the cache is queen," jokes James Price, vice president of the division of channel marketing and product of DataCore Software. "The DataCore solutions can now support up to 1 terabyte (TB) cache. They pulverized rival any on the market and grow gradually with each new node that is added to the plot. " Today it is possible to store the data of groups of virtual machines in memory cache for an entire network SAN, achieving unprecedented performance. Behind the caches, VMware customers can increase their storage pool from a few hundred gigabytes to several petabytes.
Solutions radically simple and highly available storage for an unlimited
Needless to say it: storage pool of similar size are still increasing. With this assumption, the new enhancements to the product is fully integrated solutions radically simple and highly available VMware. DataCore only one makes maintenance, upgrades, expansion and failure can occur in individual portions of your storage without interfering with applications. "Customers require that VMware numerous interruptions related to storage, which they encountered during the migration, failover and load balancing between virtual machines in the metro network are eliminated. Solutions like those offered by DataCore are designed to overcome these difficulties and are essential in order to facilitate these operations, "says George Crump, senior analyst at Storage Switzerland.
Total use: recovery of storage space for a carefully designed
SANmelody is SANsymphony that offer the opportunity to carefully size the virtual disk rather than immobilizing physical capacity when you create for the first time, the logical unit (LUN). This is particularly desirable in those virtual machines that usually consume only a small portion of the total volume allocated to them. With the new release, carefully designed the space, once occupied, is automatically retrieved in the background after the application or file system it clear. In this way, the network SAN returns any space which it had temporarily needed, further optimizing the use of resources.
Universal storage controller based on Windows Server 2008
The configuration of DataCore software on Windows x86/x64 server can turn them into universal storage controller. ESX servers and virtual machines (VM) who need to connect to storage controllers via DataCore iSCSI protocol or Fiber Channel. The most common operating systems, including Windows Server 2003, 2008, Unix, Linux, NetWare and MacOs, can take advantage of the functions of DataCore storage virtualization for the entire SAN. In smaller configurations, the controller DataCore is hosted on a virtual machine as a virtual application, next to the virtual machines used for the applications. The SAN is completely virtual and does not require any external storage. The larger configurations of physical servers devote to this role of storage virtualization and, in general, include both internal hard drives, and external disk arrays. The new 3.0 release of SANmelody and SANsymphony 7.0 were redesigned to exploit the power and scalability of virtual and physical platforms of Windows Server 2008 64 bit as a universal storage controller.
New migration support for hypervisor and greater integration with VMware Virtual Center
The rapid migration tool "Transporter" by DataCore is the new option contained in SANmelody 3.0 and SANsymphony 7.0. Transporter migrates the disk images and workloads between different operating systems, hypervisor and storage subsystems, eliminating the lengthy operations back-up and recovery caused by complicated format conversions. In addition, a plug-in, the Virtual Infrastructure Client to VMware, is an option at no additional cost that allows administrators to size, share, clone, replicate and expand without the virtual disks between physical servers and virtual machines.
All packages for VMware DataCore will be updated to SANmelody 3.0 and SANsymphony 7.0
DataCore has developed a suite of packages of "Business Continuity" (BC) and "Disaster Recovery (DR) based on SANmelody for VMware environments, ranging from virtualization package BC / DR SAN for beginners to a package of virtualization BC / DR 32 Terabyte SAN, all rich in functions, packages SANsymphony by virtually unlimited capacity.
Among the key features include:
+ Virtual shared disks, highly available
+ Sizing accurate
Images + snapshots (snapshot) on-line
+ Disaster Recovery (DR)
Caching + high speed
For more details on the packages of Business Continuity and Disaster visit: www.datacore.com / SMBpackages.
DataCore obtains the highest availability, faster performance and maximum use of your tools for storage, becoming an essential element in the configurations of VMware.
Free trial for 30 days - Try DataCore Today!
The solutions for storage virtualization DataCore Software share and replicate (mirror) disk blocks in the devices available, despite the differences in structure and design. In this process, they speed up the response and the production I / O using the caching for the entire SAN.
If you would like to make a free trial for 30 days, visit: www.datacore.com / trialsoftware.
About DataCore Software
DataCore Software, a leading provider of software for the SAN storage virtualization, essentially replaces the economy of storage management with an innovative software that combines advanced functions and services all'agilità and saving its independence by the hardware. DataCore lowers the cost and complexity of IT by making storage efficient, fast, flexible, inherently safe and virtual. The software for portable storage server DataCore simplifies and automates capacity expansion and centralizes storage management for Windows, UNIX, Linux, MacOS and NetWare as well as for VMware hypervisor, Citrix, Microsoft and other manufacturers. DataCore is privately owned and has its head office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com.
DataCore and the DataCore logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other product names or logos or DataCore services mentioned herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and names of companies mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact:
Betty Grant
DataCore Software
Fort Lauderdale, FA
+1-954-377-6000
publicrelations@datacore.com
http://www.datacore.com
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