DataCore Receives VMware Certification

By Wolfgang Gruener August 30, 2012 10:50 AM

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SANsymphony-V now certified as VMware Ready. DataCore, announced at VMworld that its storage virtualization software SANsymphony-V is now certified as VMware Ready.

SANsymphony-V integrates with several VMware solutions, including vSphere 5, vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration, vCenter Server, and vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

DataCore's SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor is designed as a scalable virtualization layer across heterogeneous storage arrays. The software, currently in version 9.0, supports all popular models and brands of disks and disk systems. Using the SANsymphony-V administrator feature, the software can obtain virtual disks on demand from the physical disk pool depending on capacity, availability and performance needs of workloads.

“The march to the cloud continues as enterprises, data centers and service providers increasingly explore the business and technical benefits of fully virtualized environments,” said Carlos Carreras, vice president at DataCore. “Storage is often the overlooked component as organizations move to virtualize servers, desktops and top tier application delivery and take full advantage of their private clouds. Not addressing this component can result in performance bottlenecks and deployment hurdles, and will not make the best use of upgrade investments."

DataCore said SANsymphony-V supports Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, Hyper-V, Windows XP, Windows 7, UNIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, RedHat Linus, Suse Linux, Apple MacOs, VMware ESX / vSphere, and Citrix XenServer.

The Teradici APEX 2800 LP card is expected to become available in early October 2012; 2800 MXM will follow in November.

Wolfgang Gruener is a contributor to Tom's IT Pro. He is currently principal analyst at Ndicio Research, a market analysis firm that focuses on cloud computing and disruptive technologies, and maintains the conceivablytech.com blog. An 18-year veteran in IT journalism and market research, he previously published TG Daily and was managing editor of Tom's Hardware news, which he grew from a link collection in the early 2000s into one of the most comprehensive and trusted technology news sources.