DataCore is the perfect complement to VMware Virtual Servers.
DataCore CEO Opinion Paper - Virtualize Top to Bottom
Taneja Group Analyst Paper: DataCore - The Perfect Complement to Virtual Servers
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.
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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."
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Server and Storage Virtualization software technologies allow users to manage more with less. Users can treat their hardware as commodities and utilize that 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
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DataCore Storage Virtualization Enhances Server Virtualization
"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. "
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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.
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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.
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.
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