DataCore Previewed SANsymphony-V Software

DataCore Software Corporation previewed its latest enhancements to the SANsymphony-V storage virtualization software at VMworld 2013 (Oct. 15-17, Fira Barcelona).

The company was also be featuring its recently released DataCore VDS – Virtual Desktop Server, anhigh-speed VDI software solution.

SANsymphony-V, available on November 4, 2013, will provide greater scalability, faster next-generation replication services for DR, automatic self-healing storage capabilities, expanded platform integration with VMware VAAI space reclamation services and an updated vCenter plug-in. In addition, the supports infrastructure-wide performance tiering and acceleration services that extend across scale-out grids of flash, SSDs and spinning disks from any vendor to accelerate tier-1 applications and virtualization workloads.

DataCore and VMware Customers Speak Out
on Software-defined Storage in Virtual World
Customer SES Engineering, the satellite operator and satellite communications company, was available at the DataCore stand and featured in the Solutions Exchange Theatre on Oct. 15th. It shared its experience with DataCore storage virtualization software and explained why it see a software-defined architecture as the only logical solution to gain the flexibility and adaptability needed to address their growth and changing needs.

VMware Users “Stop Fighting Your Storage Hardware“
DataCore recently launched a European-wide education and information campaign to spread the word to VMware users on the benefits of storage virtualization and software-defined storage architectures. Information resources including informative webcasts, links to video series on storage virtualization, white papers, ‘How To’ guides and regional case studies are now available on DataCore’s Stop Fighting Your Storage Hardware site. The site showcases how real-world customers have achieved a software-defined data center that can maximize business productivity and capitalize on their current hardware investments.

Thousands of data centers around the globe deploy DataCore to cost-effectively meet the performance and HA storage requirements of their physical and virtual servers.

“By making use of the DataCore solution within the virtual infrastructure created by vSphere and VDI, we can not only ensure that we meet these corporate requirements, but also guarantee optimal cost-efficiency as a result of the hardware independence of the solution. This affects both the direct investment and the indirect and long-term cost of refreshes, expansions and added hardware acquisitions. We have thus created the technical basis for our external IT services, and within this framework we are creating the most flexible and varied range of cloud services possible,” states Dr. Karl Manfredi CEO, Brennercom Spa, an ICT company.

SANsymphony-V Optimized for VMware Virtual Infrastructure
SANsymphony-V delivers a simple and scalable HA solution to meet vSphere shared storage requirements. The hardware-agnostic storage virtualization software abstracts and pools internal and external disks along with flash/SSDs to yield fast response, non-stop access and optimal use of capacity. Features include enhanced support for fast in-memory optimizations using DRAM caching and auto-tiering flash technologies, metro-wide failsafe synchronous mirroring and enhanced higher speed replication and new services for DR and remote site recovery. An updated plug-in for VMware vCenter allows users to non-disruptively provision, share, clone, replicate and expand virtual disks among physical servers and VMs. SANsymphony-V is a software-defined storage platform to meet the availability and performance needs required by VMware virtual infrastructures.

SANsymphony-V will include:

• Twice the scaling with support for up to 16 federated nodes: Scales performance and HA; federated nodes can span metro-wide distances
• Next generation remote replication services: Speeds up performance for DR
• New self-healing storage services: Reduces business downtime from hardware failures
• New failsafe non-disruptive data mobility services between storage pools: Increases overall resiliency
• New Hypervisor integration services: Offloads hosts to accelerate performance and data mobility operations (VAAI, ODX)
• New space reclamation services: Enables IT organizations to reclaim unused capacity they already own
• New change-control management and audit trail logs: Helps prevent avoidable errors and simplifies troubleshooting

“The growing momentum for software-defined storage has encouraged VMware customers to consider storage virtualization software solutions that address performance and availability concerns. But while hypervisor-based and device-dependent storage virtualization solve some problems, agnostic software-only storage virtualization like DataCore SANsymphony-V have been proven to deliver the highest value by working across any physical or virtual server and any collection of spinning disks and flash technology storage devices. We are pleased to showcase our customer proven value proposition and our SANsymphony-V software-defined storage platform at VMworld Europe 2013,” says Christian Hagen, VP EMEA, DataCore.

“DataCore VDS overcomes the VDI adoption issues and addresses the major market need for affordable desktop virtualization solutions in a climate where smaller budgets and the European financial crisis are impacting all IT decisions. DataCore VDS 2.0 removes many of the most painful implementation obstacles while reducing the cost per virtual desktop instance,” states Hagen.

Special Offer to VMware vExperts, VCPs and VCIs
DataCore is offering a free one-year, Not-for-resale (NFR) license to VMware vExperts, VMware Certified Professionals and VMware Certified Instructors. The NFR licenses can be used in non-production environments, for evaluations, demonstrations and training purposes. VMware vExperts, VCPs and VCIs can download the software after registration.