DataCore Virtual SAN Appliance Software

DataCore Software announced that customers who don’t have a SAN can now experience new features in Microsoft Hyper-V including live migration, dynamic load balancing and high-availability, simply by downloading DataCore’s pre-configured Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA).

VSA makes it possible for two physical servers to share disks and that is something of great significance to Hyper-V users – since many Hyper-V capabilities require just that. The DataCore VSA comes in a standard VHD format for Microsoft® Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V.

With DataCore’s Virtual SAN Appliance Microsoft Hyper-V

• users can quickly:
• Utilize Microsoft virtualization environments with an iSCSI SAN created from their server’s internal disks. No need for new hardware.
• Pool up to 1 Terabyte of disk space
• ‘Thin Provision’ storage to the virtual machines.
• Leverage DataCore’s ‘mega cache’ capability – this speeds up performance for Exchange, SQL and others applications using surplus server memory to cache I/Os from the virtual SAN
• Use Snapshots for Instant Volume Cloning and Fast Disk-to-Disk Backups
• Create a SAN from their server’s internal disks

“Why wait until you can roll in a SAN?”, said Augie Gonzalez, Director of Product Marketing at DataCore Software. “When DataCore can virtualize the physical storage from internal or direct-attached disks to make it behave like a shared storage pool.”

To download Virtual SAN Appliance, free for a 30-day trial