Storage Virtualization Software Products
Choose between two storage virtualization software products covering the range from large, distributed enterprise SANs to small virtual SANs
Our authorized solution providers will assess your requirements and
propose a storage virtualization solution based on one of these two
products. The choice ultimately depends on the overall size and complexity of your IT infrastructure.
The table below will help you to understand the capabilities provided by SANmelody software, and how SANsymphony expands on those features.
Feature | SANmelody | SANsymphony adds |
| Virtual Disk Pooling |  |
500 GBs to 32TBs per node,
iSCSI included,
Fibre Channel (FC) Optional
Up to 1 Petabyte "virtual disks
| Scale up beyond 32TBs per node Up to Petabytes in
physical storage pools,
Fibre Channel included
Tiered Storage Classes, Domains |
Synchronous Mirroring
(High Availability) |  | 1 to 2 nodes,
High-Availability (HA) Pair,
Alternate FC mirroring routes
Prioritized resynchronization | Scale out beyond 2 nodes in a region for
N+1 redundancy,
Tertiary mirror,
Alternate iSCSI mirroring route |
| High-speed Caching |  | Up to 1 TB cache per node | Linear Scaling, QoS control |
| Load Balancing |  | Across back-end channels | Support for high-end, multi-path arrays |
| Thin Provisioning |  | Included | Choose virtual disk size, serially fill disks, Display real-time usage stats |
| RAID Striping |  | Included | Hot spares automatically
replace failed drives |
| Virtual Disk Migration |  | Included + optional transition/migration for drive contents from active systems | Same |
| Online Snapshot |  | Low impact incremental (copy on first write), full clones | Same |
| CDP |  | N/A | Continuous Data Protection (CDP) option |
| Remote Replication |  | | |
| Analysis & Reporting |  | via Perfmon
+ optional package | Extensive built-in choices +
optional package superset |
| Central Management |  | Control each node individually | Centrally manage group of nodes, SAN, performance, diagnostics, related objects managed as groups |