| DataCore SANsymphony-V Storage Virtualization Software For NAS |
| Monday, 21 March 2011 | ||
DataCore SANsymphony-V Storage Virtualization Software For NASDataCore Adds NAS Performance Acceleration and High-Availability File Sharing SupportEconomical NAS extensions to its comprehensive SAN software target non-stop NFS/CIFS requirements in server and desktop virtualization rollouts Today at the start of Microsoft Management Summit 2011, DataCore Software, the industry's premier provider of storage virtualization software announced that its SANsymphony-V software addresses the three major roadblocks - cost, performance and business continuity - that have made it impractical for critical virtualization projects to utilize Network Attached Storage (NAS). SANsymphony-V overcomes these shared storage shortcomings and makes it feasible to employ the widely used NAS services already built into the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 platform in those environments. DataCore's powerful feature set can be easily configured to enhance these Microsoft services. The integrated combination cost-effectively speeds up performance and adds a new level of fault tolerance to clustered network file system (NFS) and common Internet file system (CIFS) sharing. The new solution is particularly well-suited for IT organizations that prefer to store their VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenDesktop virtual machine images under NFS or CIFS. Many of them are eager to eliminate bottlenecks and disruptions in their underlying storage systems, but not willing to spend a lot of money doing it. Jeff Boles, senior analyst and director of validation services, Taneja Group, notes, "SANsymphony-V can be easily configured to significantly accelerate performance and add a new level of data protection to Microsoft's Clustered File Shares. This resulting combination of SANsymphony-V and Microsoft is additive; it is simple to set up, requires no additional purchases and best of all it allows organizations to meet both their NAS and SAN requirements from one virtual infrastructure."
Enterprise-class NAS with No Premium-priced Specialty NAS Hardware Required The new development announced today employs standard Windows servers with off-the-shelf disks to achieve the required levels of uninterrupted shared file services at a reasonable price. Moreover, these systems now scale to performance levels once achieved only by "enterprise" NAS hardware. DataCore's novel design employs mirrored copies of the SANsymphony-V software layered beneath clustered file shares (NAS) integral to Windows Servers 2008 Enterprise. Any standard storage device can be used for disk space, ranging from the basic internal hard drives packaged by the server manufacturers, to bigger external disk arrays offered by the popular storage systems vendors.
Two High Availability/High Performance Configurations to Choose From
During normal operation both servers actively handle file requests. Should one of the two systems fail or temporarily be removed from service, the surviving machine transparently takes over all duties using the mirrored disk copy. Then when the idle machine is put back into action, the system automatically returns to its original active-active state.
Customers who start small and later outgrow the two servers can simply reassign their DataCore software licenses to the two additional servers. Incremental capacity licenses may also be added at any time to cover expansion. John Bocskor, vice president of product management, DataCore Software, points out, "Unlike other attempts at converged SAN/NAS, the DataCore approach optimizes each layer for what it does best, yet both are managed from the familiar Windows Server administration console via a user-friendly interface with self-guided wizards."
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