DataCore is the perfect complement to Microsoft's Virtual Servers.
“Storage virtualization software, such as DataCore Software’s offerings, plays a key role when combined with Microsoft’s virtualization solutions helping companies large and small to ‘Get Virtual Now,’” said David Greschler, director of integrated virtualization strategy, Microsoft Corp. DataCore Joins Microsoft “Get Virtual Now” Launch
Virtualize Top to Bottom - DataCore CEO Opinion Paper
Taneja Group Analyst Paper: DataCore - The Perfect Complement to Virtual Servers
Virtual Servers and Virtual Storage Make Sense!
"Virtual servers and virtual storage both seek to optimize the utilization of common resources (CPUs and Disks) and stress the flexibility to readily redeploy these resources (servers and storage) when and where they are needed."
Read the complete white paper: Virtual Servers and Virtual Storage Make Sense!
Server and Storage Virtualization software technologies allow users to manage more with less. Users can treat their hardware as commodities and utilize that hardware at levels never previously achieved.
- Increases utilization rates up to 80% or more
- Reduces Provisioning times for new applications from days to minutes
- Accelerates Response times for change requests, time is money
- Eliminates disruptions for upgrades and hardware maintenance
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- DataCore's SANmelody iSCSI SAN Solution Homepage (Free Trial Download)
- SANmelody's New Capabilities Tech Specs
The basic package supports multi-terabyte virtual storage pools, powerful disk performance acceleration technology, simple Windows disk migration for SQL and Exchange users, and "point and click" disk capacity, which can be served over Ethernet/LAN connections to Microsoft, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Netware, VMware, MacOS and Unix systems; pricing starts at under $1,000. Other packages come equipped with automatic thin-provisioning virtual capacity, Fibre Channel support, and snapshot and volume shadow copy services (VSS) to ease disk backup and recovery for SQL Server, Exchange 2003 and VSS aware systems. These new solution offerings and an extensive set of IP storage services enable DataCore to deliver the industry's most comprehensive suite of storage area network (SAN) and disk management capabilities to iSCSI users.
DataCore Storage Virtualization Enhances Server Virtualization
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DataCore: Consolidates Data Center Resources - 'Go Green' + Lower Operating Costs
Virtual server and virtual storage go hand in hand in managing data center infrastructures
more efficiently. Consolidating physical server and storage resources with DataCore and virtual
servers improves productivity while reducing data center floor space, power consumption and
CO2 emissions. Studies show that customers who deploy Thin Provisioning and Thin
Replication technologies such as those found in DataCore's SANmelody and SANsymphony can
take a data center capacity requirements from 10TB down to 4TB. On average just one
terabyte of capacity is needed for every 2.5 terabytes required with traditional storage arrays.
These Thin technologies can reduce necessary disk capacity and the associated carbon
footprint by as much as 60% as compared with traditional fat storage.
DataCore: Accelerates Performance and Maximizes Cost Savings
Virtual servers impact I/O performance, therefore having faster storage helps improve overall
performance. DataCore's advanced self learning adaptive cache dramatically improves
performance, often by a factor of 2 or more times, by optimally responding to I/O requests at
memory speeds versus slower disk access speeds. DataCore SANsymphony also supports
storage domains which can supply guaranteed quality of services and performance levels to
virtual machines. Virtual servers are inefficient storage consumers. DataCore maximizes cost
savings by optimizing storage utilization and supporting storage tiers enabling users to utilize
the most cost effective storage where needed, when needed.
DataCore: Makes Continuous Data Availability & Continuous Data Protection Practical
Virtual servers suffer from the "all the eggs in one basket" scenario and therefore highly
available shared storage is required. DataCore supports high-availability fail-safe shared
storage to ensure business continuity for virtual server platforms. Users can also build on
virtual server HA by taking fast disk snapshots of virtual machines enabling rapid recovery of
virtual machines when problems arise. These disk snapshot images can be used to easily
validate backup systems and provide cost-effective high availability for all applications. In
addition, DataCore Traveller is a continuous data protection (CDP) solution that enables users
to go back in time and recover the state of virtual machines, files and disk storage just as it
appeared prior to disruptions or data corruption.
DataCore: Revolutionizes Server and Storage Management
Rapidly and efficiently provisioning virtual machines and their storage from a central
management console is another key requirement to meeting user's changing needs.
DataCore's virtual storage makes it simple to allocate storage and thin provision space as
needed where needed. Users can easily deploy or backup virtual machines from the DataCore
SAN by doing a Boot from SAN or using Traveller CDP or fast disk to disk snapshots for
backups. Users also can rapidly provisioning VMware virtual machines from a centrally-stored
golden image or test patches and roll-out multiple virtual machines in minutes.
DataCore: Eliminates Waste, Optimizes Utilization, Simplifies Provisioning
Virtual servers allocate disk capacity per virtual machine and create templates that reserve
disk capacity that may or may not ever be consumed. DataCore's thin provisioned storage for
makes it efficient and easy to create volumes for any number of virtual servers (VMware ESX,
Citrix XenServer,etc.) without wasting storage capacity and best of all it ensures that any
unused storage resources are available to any application or OS.
DataCore: Simplifies Migration and Enables Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery
Virtual infrastructures respond to change by allowing motion and migration of key resources.
In addition to live migration of virtual machines users can implement DataCore SANmotion for
simple data migration across the SAN. Virtual servers make it easier to do disaster recovery
but they still require storage that supports synchronous mirroring, thin replication and
asynchronous replication in order to implement cost effective disaster recovery plan.
