The storage virtualization developer’s upgrade adds automated storage tiering as well as open APIs, VSS, and PowerShell support.
Storage virtualization developer DataCore Software has enhanced its popular SANsymphony-V solution.
SANsymphony-V 8.1 is a portable, centrally-managed software suite designed to enhance the combined value of multiple disk storage systems, including the many purpose-built storage appliances and SSD devices in the channel. The Datacore storage hypervisor supplements the individual capabilities of specialized equipment with a broad range of device-independent, integrated services.
DataCore’s storage hypervisor intelligently oversees the allocation of capacity from DAS, SAN-connected arrays and board-level SSD.
DataCore’s storage hypervisor also enables storage equipment to be easily upgraded, expanded, and replaced non-disruptively, while associated data migrations take place silently in the background, without any awkward scheduling of downtime.
The latest iteration of SANsymphony-V adds:
- Automated storage tiering to maximize the price/performance value of available storage assets.
- Open APIs, VSS, and PowerShell support for greater management integration.
- Expanded Microsoft Failover Cluster support for greater scalability.
Features of this new version include:
- Adaptive caching for performance acceleration.
- Thin provisioning for space efficiency.
- Synchronous mirroring for high-availability.
- Asynchronous replication for remote sites and disaster recovery. †
- Low-impact online snapshots for high-speed disk to disk backup.
- Pass-through disks for non-disruptive migrations.
- Continuous data protection for backup and recovery.
- Unified Storage for managing file shares (NAS) and SANs.
DataCore Software boasts that these new features “elevate SANsymphony-V to the role of super hypervisor.” The company further states the product better enables SMBs to “fully leverage their existing storage assets, including direct-attached storage, storage area networks, and solid state disks, and negotiate the best deals among competing storage manufacturers without concern for long-standing hardware vendor lock-ins.”
In a press release submitted to Channel Pro-SMB, DataCore CEO George Teixeira says the intelligence of a storage hypervisor “provides a strategic advantage to managing the many as one.” He adds, “SANsymphony-V enables users to take control of how their storage infrastructure evolves versus being subject to the dictates of point-in-time decisions.”
SANsymphony-V Release 8.1 is available now. Software licenses for a fully redundant, high-availability configuration start under $10,000 and include annual 24×7 technical support.
