SANmelody in tune with standards
SANmelody in tune with standards
DataCore has received a pat on the back for its SANmelody Disk Server software, after it was recognised by the Storage Performance Council for its iSCSI performance capabilities.
DataCore considers the SPC to be the only objective standard for storage performance comparisons, so the company is incredibly flattered to be held in such esteem.
SANmelody converts PC servers into expansion disk servers. The added capacity appears as additional internal drives to disk-starved servers on LANS or SANs.
This solution means that there is no need to commission extra application servers when the existing systems have no more room to add disks.
The software equitably distributes the available disk space to multiple applications spread across several machines by carving out smaller logical disks from larger physical disks.
Ethernet iSCSI host connections and Fibre Channel high-bandwidth ports are supported.
Dwight Ricks, from Wasatch Advisors, spoke very highly of the software: "We downloaded SANmelody from DataCore's website and had it up and running in minutes. We could server up disks using an Ethernet connection quickly and easily.
"SANmelody makes it possible to serve up high-performance and highly available storage using your existing network infrastructure."
Advanced options include point-in-time snapshots, auto failover across redundant disk servers, auto provisioning of disk space and long-distance asynchronous replication over IP WANs.
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