Symphony Management V2.0 From Violin Memory

Violin Memory, Inc. announced Symphony management software version 2.0, which enables simplified management of both Violin Memory Arrays and Velocity PCIe Memory Cards from a single interface.

With customised health monitoring, real-time analytics and reporting, Symphony 2.0 delivers predictive, automated and centralised management of an end user’s entire Violin environment.

“Symphony sets the benchmark for what it means to deliver simplicity of management and control at the tip of your fingers,” said Narayan Venkat, VP of products, Violin Memory. “The latest version of Symphony makes it even easier to consolidate data centres and manage mission-critical workloads on Violin’s persistent memory environment.”

Symphony was designed with a proactive vs. reactive design principle, providing data centre administrators knowledge and information before there are issues or concerns within the storage environment. With support for features like Smart Groups, Comparative Analysis and Granular Reporting presented through a unique graphical interface, it provides ease of use regardless of the size of deployment. The dashboards offered can be customised at various levels to provide an individual user experience, resulting in faster decision-making and optimal deployment scenarios. Combining these features and customisations with the proactive design principle of Symphony 2.0, end users are offered control of their Violin Memory ecosystem from the Velocity cards to the memory arrays.

“Violin’s 6000 series all-flash array provided an immediate business impact and the Symphony management software is critical to our growth strategy with Violin,” shared Jim Thomas, director of IT operations, Pella Corporation.

In addition to Symphony Management Software 2.0, the Violin 6224 Flash Memory Array, the second offering on the 19nm process technology with 24TB of raw capacity, is available.

Violin is also announcing the availability of the Violin Memory OS (vMOS) version 6.3 which extends non-disruptive upgrade (NDU) capability to the flash chip level. This is a unique offering compared to SSD-based flash arrays which are limited in scope to the controllers above the SSDs.