Nov 5 2009
Updated Free Trial Software Goes Beyond iSCSI, Includes FC and New FCoE Support, Content Migration, Snapshot for Cloning and Fast Backups along with Space-Efficient Thin Provisioning.
DataCore Software, a leading provider of storage virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, today announced that it has updated its Free Trial software, which is architected to optimize and manage users' storage. This free trial of SANmelody(TM) iSCSI, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and Fibre Channel SAN evaluation software, comes with performance acceleration, content migration, snapshot and thin provisioning - all included. The evaluation software enables data centers and IT departments to consolidate and maximize their disk capacity utilization. SANmelody simplifies management and leverages existing storage hardware and networking to efficiently serve the storage needs for Windows, Netware, MacOS, UNIX, and Linux systems as well as Microsoft, VMware and Citrix virtual servers and desktops.
The Free Trial software http://www.datacore.com/products/prod_SANmel_trynow_form.asp supports group snapshot and cloning, simple content migration and iSCSI and Fibre Channel as well as FCoE.
FCoE Connectivity - Access Fibre Channel storage pool via the LAN switching infrastructure. Application servers and other storage consumers can now access SANmelody nodes equipped with Fibre Channel SAN connections using their Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs). This capability takes advantage of the new Fibre Channel over Ethernet protocol and FCoE-compliant switches.
Group Snapshot and Clone Command - Synchronize online snapshots across inter-dependent volumes. This capability coordinates multiple snapshots to occur at the same time across a group of related volumes. It ensures point-time synchronization of file systems and application data that reside on different disks. Fast and efficient disk-to-disk backups across volumes are greatly simplified - plus it ensures that clones created on new equipment are an exact replica of their predecessor.
Content Migration - Relocate active drives into the virtual storage pool. This feature enables existing drives formatted with NTFS file systems to be incorporated easily into the SANmelody storage pool. These physical drives are first un-mounted from the application servers where they were once active, and then reconnected behind a SANmelody node. The SANmelody node acts as an intermediary between the application server and these drives. To take full advantage of SANmelody advanced virtualization features, their contents may be copied to virtual disks using snapshots. The relocated drives can then be wiped clean and included in the physical storage pool as additional capacity, or they may be decommissioned.
See the following announcement on recent DataCore SANmelody enhancements - link: http://www.datacore.com/pressroom/pr_live.asp?date=10/14/2009
SANmelody Free Trial Software with iSCSI + FCoE + FC SAN Support: Try It Now!
DataCore SANmelody software converts standard Intel/AMD servers, blades or virtual machines (VMs) into fully capable SAN-wide storage servers that virtualize disks and serve them over existing networks to application servers. For a FREE 30-day trial go to: http://www.datacore.com/products/prod_SANmel_trynow_form.asp.
With the SANmelody evaluation software, users can:
- Pool up to 1 Terabyte of disk space.
- Support a mix of iSCSI/Ethernet, FCoE and Fibre Channel connectivity.
- Speed up application performance with "Mega-Caching" - using surplus server memory to cache I/Os from the virtual SAN.
- "Thin Provision" storage.
- Use Snapshots for Instant Volume Cloning and Fast Disk-to-Disk Backups
- Create a SAN from your server's internal disks. No need for new hardware!
Special Offer: Go Beyond the Evaluation "Free Trial" Package with a Feature-Packed, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery SAN Software
For users who need to go beyond the "starter" Free Trial version because their requirements are more demanding, DataCore is offering special promotions on "Feature-Packed SAN Software," which provide additional, more advanced features such as auto-failover, high-availability mirroring and asynchronous IP Mirroring.
Source: http://www.datacore.com/