DataCore Showcases New Storage Hypervisor Integrations

At VMworld Europe 2012, DataCore Software Corporation announced that SANsymphony-V is certified as VMware Ready and integrates with VMware’s portfolio of solutions, allowing data centre and private cloud operators to gain the most from their virtual infrastructure investments.

DataCore showcased SANsymphony-V 9.0 which offers customers far-reaching innovations essential to managing enterprise storage and to deploying agile, scalable cloud storage infrastructures.

SANsymphony-V Enables Software-defined Storage:
"The Storage Hypervisor for the Cloud"
"The march to the cloud continues as enterprises, data centres and service providers increasingly take advantage of the business and technical benefits of fully virtualized environments," commented Christian Hagen, VP of EMEA Channel and Sales Operations, DataCore. "Storage is often the overlooked component as organisations move to virtualise servers, desktops and business critical applications within their data centres and private clouds. Not addressing the storage component can result in severe application performance bottlenecks and deployment hurdles, and less than optimal use of existing investments. DataCore’s storage hypervisor enables a new level of software flexibility and hardware independence that empowers administrators to avoid these pitfalls when migrating to the cloud."
 
DataCore and VMware
Technology Alliance Partner Program
"Our partnership with DataCore helps customers virtualise and optimise their storage infrastructure so it delivers the performance, scalability, flexibility and redundancy required to support their server and desktop virtualisation initiatives," said Parag Patel, VP, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. "This capability enables enterprises to realize the full benefits of their private cloud deployments."

SANsymphony-V is VMware Ready
and offers integration with:

• vSphere 5
• vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
• vCenter Server
• vCenter Site Recovery manager (SRM)

DataCore is a longstanding member of VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner Program. Thousands of vSphere and SANsymphony-V users are already realizing dynamic, virtualised and private cloud environments powered by the hardware of their choice. SANsymphony-V 9.0 offers VMware users enhanced flexibility and automation benefits, delivering value to their private cloud and data centre environments. As enterprises and data centre operators continue to upgrade and modernize their infrastructure, they will require such solutions to maximize ROI. Features of the storage hypervisor include automated tiering, thin provisioning and HA, enabling administrators to gain value and effective usage of their costly SSD deployments.
 
Empowering VMware SRM and VAAI
Benefits Across Heterogeneous Storage Arrays
VMware VAAI storage-based hardware acceleration lowers CPU and memory consumption, enables faster deployment, supports vMotion for storage tasks and disk creation, as well as higher VM consolidation ratios. However, these capabilities only work with VAAI-compliant storage arrays. SANsymphony-V extends VAAI hardware acceleration benefits across heterogeneous storage arrays, regardless of whether those arrays have native VAAI support or the VMFS volumes span the same brand of array enclosure.
 
The storage hypervisor sits in front of all types of storage vendor arrays and devices, presenting DataCore-powered virtual disks/LUNs to vSphere. The software masks the physical characteristics of the underlying storage devices. Bottom-line, it does not matter which physical storage array is sitting on the back-end.

The storage hypervisor
empowers VMware administrators to:

• Replicate LUNs or migrate virtual disks across different storage arrays non-disruptively
• Facilitate the implementation of powerful capabilities like VMware’s Site Recovery manager (SRM) on top of those virtualized and replicated disks
• Enable VAAI operations across diverse hardware platforms
• Simplify migrations and VMware Storage vMotion
• Free up the VMkernel for other activities by offloading work to the storage hypervisor

VMware vCenter Server Plug-In
Makes it Easy for vSphere Admins
to Eliminate Storage Issues
DataCore has made available a VMware vCenter Server plug-in that integrates enterprise storage hypervisor management with vCenter Server to empower VMware administrators with the ability to manage VMs and storage from a single console. Enterprises can now control and schedule SANsymphony-V storage virtualization services, taking snapshots and provisioning capacity directly from their vCenter console. The vCenter Server management plug-in software is available for download to all SANsymphony-V customers.

To download the DataCore vCenter Plug-in datasheet (registration needed)

Free License Key of SANsymphony-V
At VMworld Europe 2012, DataCore offered free license keys of its SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor to VMware vExperts, VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDX), VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) and VMware Certified Instructors (VCI).

To download NFR license keys (registration needed)