DataCore Storage Virtualization
The Perfect Complement to server Virtualization

With XenServer 5.0, Citrix has optimized Citrix XenApp performance on XenServer virtual machines. According to Citrix, this enables XenApp workloads to be virtualized with as little as 7% overhead and as many as 73% more users than XenApp workloads virtualized with competing products. DataCore adds to the combination by enhancing both storage and I/O performance. Moreover, DataCore provides the needed high-availability protection and SAN flexibility.

With XenServer so hot right now, it is clear that DataCore is the perfect match for XenServer as it unlocks advanced XenServer features such as high availability and XenMotion. Moreover, with the release of XenServer 5.0, integrating shared SAN storage with DataCore's SANmelody is dramatically easier today than it has been in past XenServer releases.

DataCore is the virtual storage layer that rounds out a complete virtualization strategy. With DataCore, users can be confident that they have invested in a shared storage solution that will serve, manage and protect their storage for many years, surviving generations of hardware and providing storage with the same flexibility, ease of movement, cost savings and ease of administration that only a virtualization solution can provide.

Citrix partners have gained a competitive edge as well as a new crop of customers by implementing DataCore SANmelody or SANsymphony to virtualize the storage pools for Citrix XenServer, XenApp and XenDesktop configurations. The DataCore approach, like that of Citrix, is not contingent upon a customer buying expensive hardware. DataCore's affordable hardware independent, thin provisioning software solutions enable any business to fully participate in the cost saving benefits of virtualizing and consolidating its storage.

DataCore Storage Virtualization Solutions Are Certified to Run on and Serve Storage to XenServer 5 as SAN Storage Virtual Appliances

SANsymphony and SANmelody products have been certified on Citrix's newest XenServer 5.0 release as virtual SAN appliances, as well as on both standard servers and blades.

Through its own rigorous testing, Citrix has certified that both SANsymphony and SANmelody software support XenServer 5 virtual machines as shared storage pools with advanced storage virtualization functions critical to demanding virtual server environments. The manufacturer-independent features include fail-safe data protection, high availability mirroring, remote replication to disaster recovery sites, non-disruptive virtual data migration, thin provisioning and high speed caching for performance acceleration.

For information on DataCore's SMB-affordable line of feature-packed SAN virtualization solutions or on becoming a DataCore partner, please e-mail: datacore@interact.be