United States: datacore Software updates storage virtualization Free Trial software.Byline: datta03 DataCore Software Corp., a provider of storage virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. , business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, announced on Wednesday that it has updated its Free Trial software, which is architected to optimize and manage users' storage. This free trial of SANmelody offers iSCSI (Internet SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. ), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and Fibre Channel SAN (storage area network) evaluation software, comes with performance acceleration, content migration, snapshot and thin provisioning Thin provisioning[1] is a mechanism that applies to large-scale centralized computer disk storage systems, SANs, and storage virtualization systems. Thin provisioning allows space to be easily allocated to servers, on a just-enough and just-in-time basis. - all included. The evaluation software enables data centers and IT departments to consolidate and maximize their disk capacity utilization Capacity Utilization measures the rate at which a firm makes use of their capital productive capacities, such as factories and machinery. Capacity Utilization generally rises when the economy is healthy and falls when demand softens. . 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 supports group snapshot and cloning, simple content migration and iSCSI and Fibre Channel, as well as FCoE. The FCoE connectivity offers access Fibre Channel storage pool through the LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. (local area network) switching infrastructure. Application servers and other storage consumers can 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. The group snapshot and clone command provides synchronized 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 (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. of file systems and application data that reside on different disks. Fast and efficient disk-to-disk backups across volumes are simplified, as it ensures that clones created on new equipment are an exact replica of their predecessor. Content Migration offers relocation of active drives into the virtual storage pool. This feature enables existing drives formatted with NTFS (NT File System) An optional file system for Windows NT, 2000 and XP operating systems. NTFS is the more advanced file system, compared to FAT32. It improves performance and is required in order to implement numerous security and administrative features in the OS. file systems to be incorporated 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 An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. 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. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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