DataCore
Software, a leader in Software-Defined Storage and Hyper-converged
Virtual SAN solutions, today announced universal vSphere Virtual Volumes
(VVols) support which extends the scope and impact of this important
industry
advance. Many administrators crave the power and fine-grain control
promised by vSphere Virtual Volumes; however, most current storage
arrays and systems
do not support it or are not currently certified as VVol capable. This
powerful new capability enabled by DataCore allows VMware’s VVols
benefits to work universally across all kinds of storage. With DataCore
enabled, VMware vSphere administrators can self-provision virtual
volumes from
virtual storage pools -- and can instantly specify the capacity and
class of service needed for their applications without having to know
anything about
the storage or underlying hardware. The new capability is already
shipping and comes included within the current release of
DataCore’s VMware certified SANsymphony-V Software-Defined Storage and
DataCore Hyper-converged Virtual SAN
“At The Biodesign Institute, the new universal VVol capability has
allowed us to leverage several different types of storage systems behind
DataCore
SANsymphony-V,” said Scott LeComte, associate director of IT at The
Biodesign Institute - Arizona State University. “We have XIO storage for
primary
volumes and those are mirrored to less expensive Dell MD storage that
has allowed us to decrease our overall cost to secure and manage large
data sets for
extremely long periods of time. VVols enable us to easily manage and
provision volumes in a rapidly changing research environment.”
With DataCore, administrators can deploy virtual drives via the vSphere
interface from any storage hardware (disk subsystems, flash / SSD
arrays, DAS,
etc.). As a result, these customers can now benefit from VVols on
platforms including the broad range of EMC, IBM, HDS, Dell, XIO, NetApp
and other popular
storage systems and all flash arrays (Pure Storage, Nimble, etc.) by
layering the SANsymphony-V Software-Defined Storage platform in front of
them. The
same is true for direct-attached storage (DAS) pooled by the DataCore
Hyper-converged Virtual SAN.
DataCore’s unique implementation of VVols also enables customers to
realize its benefits on legacy storage and arrays that are not slotted
to receive VVols
until next year or beyond -- allowing un-certified storage gear to
receive the benefit today. In addition, DataCore also provides vSphere
tools that enable
Hyper-converged systems to be set up automatically and configured on
ESXi clusters with the DataCore Virtual SAN.