Two years in development, SANsymphony-V software enables datacenters to use existing equipment and conventional storage devices to achieve the shared storage environment necessary to support dynamic virtual IT environments.
According to Datacore, the new software helps avoid the many performance problems caused by I/O bottlenecks and the lost business suffered from downtime that make customers hesitant to virtualize crucial business applications, such as mail and database systems. SANsymphony-V uses adaptive caching to absorb variable workloads while simultaneously removing storage as a single point of failure and disruption.† SANsymphony-V offers a flexible, open software platform from which to provision, share, reconfigure, migrate, replicate, expand, and upgrade storage without slowdowns or downtime.†
DataCore designed SANsymphony-V to meet the needs of midmarket end-users and solution providers, especially those familiar with Windows Server administration.
While some vendors in the virtualization field recommend that customers lock themselves into specific storage hardware configurations and exotic purpose-built appliances, SANsymphony-V frees customers from hardware vendor lock-in by decoupling the virtual infrastructure from the underlying disks. †It also optimizes the I/O response obtained from standard storage devices that would have otherwise needed to be replaced.† Then when they need to expand capacity, they can choose the best deal at the time from a number of competitive suppliers rather than be limited to one specific vendor’s hardware.
In addition to reducing capital expenses, SANsymphony-V promises to ensure:
- Cost savings through software flexibility to meet change, portability and device independence.
- Fastest application response by auto-tuning “mega caches” and selecting the best I/O paths.
- High-availability stretched across rooms or off-site, eliminating single points of failure and disruption through physical separation with full Auto-failover and Recovery capabilities that insure the highest levels of business continuity.
- Optimum disk space utilization through infrastructure-wide thin provisioning and pooling.
- No downtime to repurpose and migrate systems and workloads with DataCore’s non-disruptive pass through capability that enables file systems and storage to be migrated. †
- Reduced administrative complexity and risk through intuitive infrastructure-wide storage management, automation and wizard-like guided GUI.
- Multi-site and bi-directional recovery management of data and VMs across sites.
- Time saving recovery with Continuous Data Protection (CDP) to rapidly rollback in time and recover workloads and VMs.
SANsymphony-V accelerates the transition between physical and virtual machines by putting to full use the disk drives and data mounted on the original systems.† The set of device-independent features includes disk pooling, high-speed caching, synchronous mirroring, asynchronous remote replication, non-disruptive disk migrations, and low-impact online snapshots.† SANsymphony-V also includes the ability to better safeguard workloads and avoid disruptions including integrated continuous data protection (CDP), multi-site recovery, and high-speed and traffic compressing replication.
