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Virtual Servers and Virtual Storage MakeSense!
"Virtual servers and virtual storage both seek to optimize the utilization of common resources (CPUs and Disks) and stress the flexibility to readily redeploy these resources (servers and storage) when and where they are needed."
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DataCore Storage Virtualization Enhances Server Virtualization
- DataCore's storage virtualization software insulates your virtual server environments from the adds , moves and changes in the physical disk configuration.
- DataCore's application transparent high-availabilty and auto failover and failback capabilities slash downtime while protecting your critical business data.
- DataCore's ability to boost the performance of the disk subsystems helps overcome the sluggishness\of concentrated I/O workloads.
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Users can utilize their storage and hardware at levels never previously achieved.
- Increases utilization rates up to 80% or more
- Reduces Provisioning times for new applications from days to minutes
- Accelerates Response times for change requests, time is money
- Eliminates disruptions for upgrades and hardware maintenance
DataCore: Consolidates Data Center Resources - 'Go Green' + Lower Operating Costs
Virtual server and virtual storage go hand in hand in managing data center infrastructures
more efficiently. Consolidating physical server and storage resources with DataCore and virtual
servers improves productivity while reducing data center floor space, power consumption and
CO2 emissions. Studies show that customers who deploy Thin Provisioning and Thin
Replication technologies such as those found in DataCore's SANmelody and SANsymphony can
take a data center capacity requirements from 10TB down to 4TB. On average just one
terabyte of capacity is needed for every 2.5 terabytes required with traditional storage arrays.
These Thin technologies can reduce necessary disk capacity and the associated carbon
footprint by as much as 60% as compared with traditional fat storage.
DataCore: Accelerates Performance and Maximizes Cost Savings
Virtual servers impact I/O performance, therefore having faster storage helps improve overall
performance. DataCore's advanced self learning adaptive cache dramatically improves
performance, often by a factor of 2 or more times, by optimally responding to I/O requests at
memory speeds versus slower disk access speeds. DataCore SANsymphony also supports
storage domains which can supply guaranteed quality of services and performance levels to
virtual machines. Virtual servers are inefficient storage consumers. DataCore maximizes cost
savings by optimizing storage utilization and supporting storage tiers enabling users to utilize
the most cost effective storage where needed, when needed.
DataCore: Makes Continuous Data Availability & Continuous Data Protection Practical
Virtual servers suffer from the "all the eggs in one basket" scenario and therefore highly
available shared storage is required. DataCore supports high-availability fail-safe shared
storage to ensure business continuity for virtual server platforms. Users can also build on
virtual server HA by taking fast disk snapshots of virtual machines enabling rapid recovery of
virtual machines when problems arise. These disk snapshot images can be used to easily
validate backup systems and provide cost-effective high availability for all applications. In
addition, DataCore Traveller is a continuous data protection (CDP) solution that enables users
to go back in time and recover the state of virtual machines, files and disk storage just as it
appeared prior to disruptions or data corruption.
DataCore: Revolutionizes Server and Storage Management
Rapidly and efficiently provisioning virtual machines and their storage from a central
management console is another key requirement to meeting user's changing needs.
DataCore's virtual storage makes it simple to allocate storage and thin provision space as
needed where needed. Users can easily deploy or backup virtual machines from the DataCore
SAN by doing a Boot from SAN or using Traveller CDP or fast disk to disk snapshots for
backups. Users also can rapidly provisioning VMware virtual machines from a centrally-stored
golden image or test patches and roll-out multiple virtual machines in minutes.
DataCore: Eliminates Waste, Optimizes Utilization, Simplifies Provisioning
Virtual servers allocate disk capacity per virtual machine and create templates that reserve
disk capacity that may or may not ever be consumed. DataCore's thin provisioned storage for
makes it efficient and easy to create volumes for any number of virtual servers (VMware ESX,
Citrix XenServer,etc.) without wasting storage capacity and best of all it ensures that any
unused storage resources are available to any application or OS.
DataCore: Simplifies Migration and Enables Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery
Virtual infrastructures respond to change by allowing motion and migration of key resources.
In addition to live migration of virtual machines users can implement DataCore SANmotion for
simple data migration across the SAN. Virtual servers make it easier to do disaster recovery
but they still require storage that supports synchronous mirroring, thin replication and
asynchronous replication in order to implement cost effective disaster recovery plan.
Virtual Servers and Virtual Storage Make Sense!
"Virtual infrastructures attain a new level with DataCore incorporating storage and SANs. The combination of VMware and DataCore maximizes flexibility, cost savings and our ability to rapidly deploy server and disks." - Ferdinand Glaremin of LWL.
While there are significant differences between virtual servers and virtual storage, both must work together and both attack exactly the same fundamental problem - making the many work as simply as one.
"Virtual servers and virtual storage both seek to optimize the utilization of common resources (CPUs and Disks) and stress the flexibility to readily redeploy these resources (servers and storage) when and where they are needed."
Read the complete white paper: Virtual Servers and Virtual Storage Make Sense!
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Read: Munich Hospital Network Goes Virtual Using a combination of DataCore and VMware
Read: J.N.Köbig Inc. Turns to VMware and DataCore for Server and Storage Virtualization
Read: Florida Companies Steadily Embracing Virtual Infrastructure
DataCore's Vision of Storage Virtualization past, present and future
Click to read the full article in Virtual Strategy Magazine.
During the last 12 months, over 60% of our sales have been associated with virtual server deployments. There’s a natural connection in the data center and in the field between what we do and what the server virtualization vendors do. When you consolidate servers, you are putting “all your eggs in one basket” to the extent that a single failure can take out a lot of virtual machines. That’s why server virtualization best practices call for a shared storage solution with true failover. However, true auto failover and recovery usually comes at a hefty price and is still the weakest link in making a SAN practical to support virtual server environments. We deliver high-availability, SAN solutions at a price that is a fraction of traditional SAN hardware solutions. But, more important than satisfying the storage requirement cost effectively, DataCore and server virtualization solutions, such as VMware, together extend virtual infrastructure from storage to servers, and, by adding a desktop virtualization solution such as Citrix, to the desktop as well. This is meaningful, because virtual infrastructure benefits stop where physical infrastructures take over. The dependence of desktops and servers on fixed and dedicated storage means that the benefits of virtualizing these infrastructures (such as flexibility, utilization, control, the ability to make changes non-disruptively) are attenuated by the limitations of physical storage. DataCore maps storage virtually, allowing customers get the most out of their investments in VMware and Citrix by extending virtual infrastructure all the way through to the storage.
DataCore and Virtual Iron Partner to Deliver Outstanding Price Value Performance for Enterprise-Class Virtualization
Together, DataCore and Virtual Iron make it possible for enterprises of any size to begin with, and to grow with, the benefits of virtualization. While other virtualization and SAN solutions require expensive software and hardware,Virtual Iron and DataCore provide enterprise-class virtualization at a fraction of the cost of alternative offerings, enabling virtualization for the mass market. The combination unlocks the power of virtualization by going beyond simple server and storage consolidation to support virtual server migration between any server and any storage without any downtime, providing operational benefits such as no downtime hardware maintenance, real-time capacity management, and simplified business continuity. Because Virtual Iron and DataCore solutions support both Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity,
this combination can be implemented in practically any business on a standard Ethernet network, without any investment in Fibre Channel infrastructure.
For more information, click here to download the DataCore/Virtual Iron data sheet. [PDF]
Details of the announcement can be found at http://www.datacore.com/pressroom/pr_070129.asp
DataCore Software Joins VMware as a Technology Software Alliance Partner
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DataCore optimizes and supports the interoperability of our SANsymphony and SANmelody software with VMware software to enhance performance and functionality and assure the best customer experience. As a Technology Software Alliance partner, DataCore gains additional access to software, technology support and access to VMware software technical consultation and training.
"The products work hand-in-hand to accelerate the time it takes to allocate and assign systems and storage," said Kosmas Schütz, Director of Information Systems, Munich's Schwabing Hospital. "With a small staff, it makes it possible to manage a lot of user storage and hundreds of servers in our dynamic environment. Together, VMware ESX software and DataCore virtual storage reduce workloads on administrators, ease server provisioning and automate serving disk capacity to users and applications. "
VMware and DataCore Test Results
TPI Technologies conducts extensive usability and evaluation tests:
"We feel that using Vmware and DataCore together simplifies management and significantly lowers the cost of hardware. Allocating and reallocating computer and storage resources to various application workloads produced excellent results. DataCore's product produced a powerful set of management improvements that promise to contribute increased flexibility and more efficient utilization of IT resources to end users." - Jeremy Evans, Chief Storage Engineer, TPI Technologies, Inc.
Thin Provisioning - Virtual Capacity and Storage Virtualization
"The current manual approaches for provisioning storage often require hours not seconds to create volumes and make them available to an application or an end user. Many of the newer virtualization products on the market require users to lock in to a specific hardware vendor's 'solution set' and concerns remain over whose hardware can be included in the hardware-based virtualization scheme. DataCore's approach is superior. I am hard pressed to think of any other storage software vendor who offers anything close in terms of giving users so much choice on which vendor's disks and hardware to use," says Jon William Toigo, renowned storage analyst and author, IT consumer advocate and CEO of Toigo Partners International in Tampa Bay, FL.
Click to read the White Paper: DataCore's Virtual Capacity.
"DataCore's virtual capacity is a major leap forward. You now can defeat the 'running out of space' downtime problem and avoid the 'guesswork' cost of over buying storage. This innovation truly automates the process of storage provisioning and delivers dramatic improvements in utilization." - John Padovano, Manager of Technology for EngenderHealth.
DataCore Storage Virtualization
DataCore™ storage virtualization software solutions allow you to manage more with less effort and fewer resources, deploy lower cost storage networks and hardware without sacrificing high-end feature/function/performance, and increase the flexibility and utilization of your storage investments to levels you could not otherwise achieve. DataCore™ is a platform for delivering a range of hardware-independent storage services and features such as fast disk-to-disk backups, snapshots for data protection, mirroring for high availability, remote replication over IP for disaster recovery, and Virtual Capacity - which "grows" the storage capacity allocated to your application servers automatically to meet their needs, instead of having to shut them down to add capacity. DataCore solutions significantly enhance the overall performance of your storage infrastructure, reduce provisioning times for new applications from days to minutes, accelerate response time for change requests and eliminate disruptions for upgrades and hardware maintenance. Additional information, our recent world record iSCSI price performance results and white papers can be found at: Click to read the white papers.
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Article: Virtualized SANs for virtual servers
Now you can have a virtualized and thinly-provisioned storage area network (SAN) in a total virtual server and hardware-independent environment, as DataCore has released its SANmelody and SANsymphony products as virtual machines. Read more…
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