Create virtual SAN with DataCore

BERLIN, GERMANY: DataCore Software, a provider of storage virtualization storage area network (SAN) software, announced that customers who don’t have a SAN can now experience new features in Microsoft Hyper-V including live migration, dynamic load balancing and high-availability, with DataCore’s pre-configured Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA).

DataCore Virtual SAN Appliance software lets customers experience migration and clustering features in Microsoft Hyper-V without buying a new SAN.

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Augie Gonzalez, director, Product Marketing, DataCore Software, said: “Why wait until you can roll in a SAN?. When DataCore can virtualize the physical storage from internal or direct-attached disks to make it behave like a shared storage pool.”

VSA makes it possible for two physical servers to share disks and that is something of great significance to Hyper-V users – since many Hyper-V capabilities require just that. The DataCore VSA comes in a standard VHD format for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V. 

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With DataCore’s Virtual SAN Appliance Microsoft Hyper-V users can quickly:

Utilize Microsoft virtualization environments with an iSCSI SAN created from their server’s internal disks. No need for new hardware!

Pool up to 1 Terabyte of disk space.

“Thin Provision” storage to the virtual machines. See how much capacity it saves!

Leverage DataCore’s “mega cache” capability – this speeds up performance for Exchange, SQL and others applications using surplus server memory to cache I/Os from the virtual SAN.

Use Snapshots for instant volume cloning and fast disk-to-disk backups.

Create a SAN from their server's internal disks.

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