StorMagic announced a High-Availability (HA) kit of its SvSAN solution that allows organisations to benefit from advanced VMware virtualisation features, which enable Business Continuity (BC) without having to incur the costs traditionally associated with shared storage.



High Availability has become a mandate for most businesses irrespective of their size, IT budgets, or even the current economic climate. However, many IT administrators today do not have the resources to deploy HA features, because they cannot afford the cost and complexity of the shared storage, one of the elements required in order to activate these features.
 
StorMagic’s SvSAN HA Kit gives organisations the shared storage they need to unlock HA features such as VMware High Availability (HA), VMware VMotion and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), maintaining online applications and constant accessibility.

The SvSAN HA kit offers the following advantages to users:

• Enables VMware HA, VMware VMotion and VMware DRS
• Offers the benefits of an included Virtual SAN with HA
• Gives continuous access to datastores
• Can help protect corporate data
• Eliminates the cost and complexity of external shared storage
• Maintains online applications and constant accessibility

“The number of critical IT requirements is growing rapidly and yet the technical and financial resources available to them is mostly staying flat,” said Mike Stolz, vice president of marketing at StorMagic. “With our SvSAN kit, we are empowering our users by giving them the tools to take advantage of some very powerful features in their VMware environments.”

Users can download the SvSAN HA kit; this will provide a 2 TB SvSAN for an unlimited time, a 30-day High Availability license, and introductory support during the install phase. After the trial period, users can purchase the HA option for as low as £599/€665/$995 per node.