Virtual SAN Appliance

DataCore Releases Virtual SAN Appliance for Citrix Essentials & Hyper-V

August 4, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Datacore Software recently released a plug-n-play virtual SAN appliance for Citrix Essentials. It was designed for virtual server environments running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, and Citrix XenServer.

With this evaluation version you can:

Try Citrix Essentials with StorageLink Technology enabled iSCSI SAN created from your server’s internal disks. No need for new hardware!
Pool up to 1 Terabyte of disk space
“Thin Provision” storage to your virtual machines. See how much capacity it saves!
Speed up application performance using surplus server memory to cache I/Os from the virtual SAN
Snapshot: Instant Volume Cloning and Fast Disk-to-Disk Backups

System requirements:

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Citrix XenServer to host the VHD image
10 GB available disk space for SANmelody Virtual Appliance
Additional disk space for storage pools (up to 1 TB max)
IP connection between application servers and SANmelody Virtual Appliance
iSCSI initiator software required to connect application servers to SANmelody Virtual SAN Appliance
DataCore Adapter for Citrix StorageLink Technology is required to use StorageLink.

DataCore’s SANsymphony and SANmelody Certified On Citrix XenServer 5

October 14, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

DataCore Software, provider of storage virtualization software, today announced that its SANsymphony and SANmelody products have been certified on Citrix‘s newest XenServer 5 release as virtual SAN appliances, as well as on both standard servers and blades. With XenServer 5, Citrix has optimized Citrix XenApp performance on XenServer virtual machines. According to Citrix, this enables XenApp workloads to be virtualized with as little as 7% overhead and as many as 73% more users than XenApp workloads virtualized with competing products. Citrix XenApp (formerly Citrix Presentation Server) is used by more than 100 million users and 99% of the Fortune Global 500.

DataCore Virtual SAN appliance and storage virtualization software are certified for XenServer 5

Through its own rigorous testing, Citrix has certified that both SANsymphony and SANmelody software support XenServer 5 virtual machines as shared storage pools with advanced storage virtualization functions critical to demanding virtual server environments. The manufacturer-independent features include fail-safe data protection, high availability mirroring, remote replication to disaster recovery sites, non-disruptive virtual data migration, thin provisioning and high speed caching for performance acceleration.

DataCore Software

LeftHand Networks Reports Impressive Numbers

August 12, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

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LeftHand Networks today announced it has achieved 110 percent year-over-year revenue growth in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008. LeftHand Networks attributes its notable growth to strong customer demand for iSCSI SANs, larger SAN deployments and significant repeat business from existing customers, as well as its VMware go-to-market partnership and substantial channel expansion.

“Achieving triple digit revenue growth and surpassing key milestones of 3,000 customers and 11,000 systems sold is gratifying and reflects the significant advantages that LeftHand Networks’ SANs deliver to the market,” said Bill Chambers, founder and CEO, LeftHand Networks. “With an annual sales growth rate of 110 percent this year, compared with IDC’s market projection of 50 percent growth for the IP SAN market, LeftHand Networks continues to gain share and drive innovative product advancements.”

The company also claims demand has grown for LeftHand Networks’ Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) for VMware ESX Server, a VMware certified solution that provides highly available applications and storage without requiring an external SAN. The VSA is available for purchase as a standalone solution or as part of Virtualization Solution Kits consisting of LeftHand Networks’ VSA software combined with VMware virtualization software.

LeftHand Networks