Ultimate Flexibility, Always-On Business Continuity, and Maximum Performance
Product Overview
DataCore SANsymphony software-defined storage (SDS) provides organizations the flexibility, performance, and simplicity they need to efficiently aggregate isolated disparate storage resources into one highly available storage services pool. DataCore SANsymphony enables any mix of hyperconverged, converged (SAN), and storage virtualization deployment models to mitigate the business risks, IT complexities, and costs associated with different architectures, data migration initiatives, and protocols while increasing your organizations’ agility and competitive edge. DataCore’s hardware agnostic approach frees organizations from vendor lock-in and provides ultimate flexibility in how they manage, build, and modernize their storage infrastructures.
End-User Benefits
Ultimate Flexibility
Pool and aggregate your collective storage resources under one common set of enterprise-class data services that can be delivered across your entire organization for uniform, centralized management despite differences and incompatibilities among hardware manufacturers, models, and generations of equipment in use.
Leverage your existing environment and extend the life and value of your infrastructure. With a broad choice between deployment methods, hyperconverged or open architectures, and a universally compatible format, you can painlessly migrate from one to the other during business operations while meeting stringent SLAs.
Always-on Business Continuity
With multi-layered protection for continuous operations, high availability, and disaster recovery, SANsymphony ensures your data is permanently available. Even when a component or an entire site fails due to equipment, environmental, or human factors, synchronous mirroring and transparent failover ensure automated, real-time continuous data access for always-available business operations.
Additional capabilities like asynchronous replication and advanced site recovery protect your business in case of any disaster, while continuous data protection (CDP) provides an integrated undo button allowing you to revoke any unwanted data change, thereby maintaining data integrity.
Maximum Performance
DataCore customers across verticals and use cases report up to a 10X increase in storage performance—in some cases seeing results immediately after deployment. With data services like high speed caching, Parallel I/O, intelligent auto-tiering, random-write acceleration, and more, SANsymphony dramatically increases IOPS, decreases latency, and delivers faster response times for your applications.
You don’t need to rip and replace your entire system to improve performance, SANsymphony lets you scale up or scale out your applications while efficiently using all your resources.
Significant Cost Savings
DataCore improves resource utilization and delivers single-pane-of-glass management across all storage devices, reducing administrative time and support calls to significantly reduce CAPEX and OPEX.
Additionally, DataCore’s hardware-independent storage services give you the freedom to choose your preferred hardware and seamlessly integrate new technologies non-disruptively, so you can leverage your existing storage environment and modernize it with cost-efficient alternatives.
Deployment Options
Storage Virtualization
Abstracts traditional SAN architectures and provides uniform, high-end storage capabilities to applications while extending the life and value of existing SAN devices.
Hybrid-Converged
Enables any mix of HCI, converged (SAN) and storage virtualization deployment models under a unified management plane with advanced data migration that spans across your entire storage infrastructure.
Converged (SAN)
Pools built-in server and direct-attached storage resources to create highly dense and economical shared storage.
Hyperconverged
Aggregates local spinning disks and local flash storage of application servers into a fast and highly available virtual storage pool for data sharing across server clusters without an external SAN.
One Storage Services Platform Across Your Entire Infrastructure
Consumers
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Physical Servers
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Virtual Machines
- Containers
Access Methods*
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FC
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ISCSI
Operation & Insights
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Provisioning
- Data Migration
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Historical /
Real-Time Charts -
Health &
Performance Graphs - Proactive Alerts
- Predictive Analytics
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Orchestration
Data Services
Command & Control
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REST API
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Powershell
Cmdlets -
Plug-ins
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Console User
Interface
Storage Protocols
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NVME
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FC
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ISCSI
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SAS/SATA
- Cloud**
*NFS AND SMB ACCESS IS SUPPORTED THROUGH WINDOWS FILE SERVER ❘ ** VIA CLOUD STORAGE GATEWAYS
Consumers
Physical Servers
HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, RedHat Linux SUSE Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Novell Netware, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, among others
Virtual Machines
VMware ESXi (vSphere), Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Linux KVM, and more
Containers
All containers leveraging either Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) or the Docker Volume Plugin
Access Methods
Storage will either be served as block storage via Fibre Channel, iSCSI or FC over Ethernet (FCoE). In parallel, the storage can also be served as File Services via Windows NFS, SMB or any other separately licensed NFS service.
Data Services
Parallel I/O
Processes I/O in parallel vs. serially for increased application performance
Caching
Accelerates application performance by using CPU cache/RAM as read and write cache
Random Write Accelerator
Eliminates random write performance penalty
Auto-Tiering
Automatically sets tier assignments based on data usage patterns, with support for up to 15 storage tiers
Load Balancing
Auto balances I/Os across devices and bypasses failed/offline channels
Quality of Service (QOS)
Limits I/O traffic from lower priority workloads and enables critical apps to run faster
Storage Pooling
Splits tiers based on price/ performance/capacity and eliminates stranded disk space
Deduplication/Compression
Reduces the required storage space
Thin Provisioning
Only consume what is needed; no wasting of storage space by preallocating it
Replication & Site Recovery
Bi-directional asynchronous replication with automatic failover, resynchronization and failback in case of a disaster
Continuous Data Protection
Behaves as an undo button for any unwanted change
Encryption
XTS-AES 256-bit encryption for data at rest, which is storage device-independent
Synchronous Mirroring
Eliminates storage as a single point of failure, offers fully transparent and automatic failover, resynchronization, and failback
Snapshots
Allows simple and fast generation of independent point-in-time copies
Operation and Insights
DataCore Insight Services (DIS) is a cloud-based, predictive analytics platform that delivers actionable in- sights to avoid problems before they occur. Additionally, DIS provides guidance for proactive optimizations from an easy to use, single pane of glass. The SaaS offering continuously analyzes telemetry from your SANsymphony environment to detect early warning signs of potential issues. and uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to assess their relative severity and then prescribes steps to prevent them or mitigate their impact. DIS is available with SANsymphony term license only.
DataCore SANsymphony Software Licensing Options
SANsymphony is available in three software editions, EN, ST and BZ, with different prices per terabyte (price/TB).
Enterprise-class licenses offer the highest performance, richest feature set and most flexibility
Standard licenses are ideal for midrange requirements
Business edition is the cost-efficient entry level of SANsymphony suited for smaller but demanding HA installations
For a detailed explanation and the features/ capabilities covered with each edition/ licensing, please visit the licensing page.
