Maximizing the Collective Value of Your Storage Infrastructure
Product Overview
DataCore SANsymphony revolutionizes data storage by providing a seamless and efficient way to manage and optimize resources. It enhances the performance and reliability of storage systems, offering organizations the agility needed to meet the demands of modern data environments. Central to its intelligent design is a software-defined storage architecture, which allows for a flexible, scalable approach to managing diverse block storage infrastructures such as SAN, DAS, HCI, and JBODs. This helps streamline storage management, ensuring that data services are centralized and uniform across various storage systems.
By abstracting data services from the underlying hardware dependencies, SANsymphony delivers unmatched flexibility circumventing the complexities and constraints typically associated with traditional storage systems. It consolidates storage capacity from diverse equipment, maximizing resource utilization to the fullest.
IT teams can easily to add new devices, retire and exchange aging hardware, and migrate data between unlike models—all during business operations, without any disruption to applications and end users.
SANsymphony ensures robust data protection through a comprehensive multi-pronged strategy. It employs local redundancy with multi-way mirroring and automated failover for uninterrupted operations, and enables cross-site replication and recovery mechanisms to safeguard against disasters and site-level outages. Additionally, it minimizes data loss with point-in-time restore capabilities, enabling swift recovery. This holistic approach ensures organizations remain resilient, with data protected and accessible during unexpected disruptions.
Optimizing resource use and streamlining management, SANsymphony significantly reduces CAPEX and OPEX spend.
Its hardware-agnostic design allows smooth integration of preferred equipment and storage technologies, improving flexibility of choice and negotiation leverage with suppliers during procurement. Overall, SANsymphony safeguards current IT investments and future-proofs your storage infrastructure to meet evolving business needs.
What Users Can Expect
High Data Availability
Low Storage TCO
Hardware Independence
Uniform Data Services
Greater IT Efficiency
Key Benefits
Ensure continuous operations by avoiding downtime and overcoming disruptions
Repurpose existing storage to save costs and defer new hardware purchases
Expand and modernize without constraints on hardware models or manufacturers
Optimize performance and capacity with AI/ML-driven smart data placement
Achieve seamless data migrations across diverse storage systems
Minimize data loss and ensure fast recovery through point-in- time rollbacks
Promote sustainability by recycling and upcycling existing storage resources
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 deployments under unified management with seamless data migration 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 HDDs and SSDs of application servers into a fast, highly available virtual storage pool for data sharing across server clusters.
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
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Auto-Tiering &
Adaptive Data Placement -
Caching
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Continuous Data Protection
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Deduplication / Compression
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Encryption
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Load Balancing
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Parallel I/O
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Quality Of Service (QOS)
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Random Write Accelerator
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Asynchronous Replication &
Site Recovery -
Snapshots
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Storage Pooling
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Synchronous Mirroring &
TRANSPARENT FAILOVER -
Thin Provisioning
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, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, among others.
Virtual Machines
VMware ESXi (vSphere), Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Hypervisor, Linux KVM, Proxmox VE, and more.
Containers
All containers leveraging Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI).
Access Methods
Storage is provided as block storage via Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or FCoE. Additionally, storage can be served as file services via Windows NFS, SMB, or other licensed NFS services.
Operations & Insights
DataCore Insight Services (DIS) is a cloud-based predictive analytics platform focused on providing actionable insights to prevent issues and guide proactive optimizations for SANsymphony environments.
(Note: DIS requires telemetry to be enabled and is only available with SANsymphony term license).
Data Services
Auto-Tiering
Dynamically reassigns data based on their actual usage patterns across diverse storage equipment, with support for up to 15 storage classes.
Caching
Accelerates application performance by using CPU cache/RAM as read-and-write cache.
Continuous Data Protection
Behaves as an undo button for any unwanted change allowing rollback of data to last-known good state.
Deduplication/Compression
Reduces the data footprint and required storage space.
Encryption
XTS-AES 256-bit encryption for data at rest.
Load Balancing
Auto-balances I/Os across devices and bypasses failed/offline channels.
Parallel I/O
Processes I/O in parallel (vs. serially) for increased application performance.
Quality of Service (QOS)
Limits I/O traffic from lower priority workloads and enables critical apps to run faster.
Random Write Accelerator
Eliminates random write performance penalty.
Asynchronous Replication & Site Recovery
Cross-site replication with failover, resynchronization, and failback in case of a disaster.
Snapshots
Allows speedy generation of independent point-in-time copies.
Storage Pooling
Avoids storage silos by aggregating disk space from disparate storage systems.
Synchronous Mirroring & Transparent Failover
Eliminates storage as a single point of failure, offers fully transparent and automatic failover, resynchronization, and failback.
Thin Provisioning
Only consume what is needed; no wasting of storage space by pre-allocating it.
Storage Pooling
Avoids storage silos by aggregating disk space from disparate storage systems.
Adaptive Data Placement
This industry-unique technology combines auto-tiering and inline deduplication and compression, powered by advanced AI/ML algorithms. SANsymphony continuously monitors data access patterns, dynamically assigning data to the most suitable storage tier. For infrequently accessed data, SANsymphony uses inline compression and deduplication to reduce the data footprint and tier it to the slowest device maximizing capacity efficiency.
This helps ensure optimal performance for frequently accessed datasets on faster storage, while minimizing storage costs for seldom-accessed data. As data access patterns evolve, storage tier assignments are automatically and transparently adjusted in real time, without manual intervention.
DataCore SANsymphony Software Licensing Options
SANsymphony is available in four software editions, EN, ST, BZ, and BR, with different pricing per terabyte (TB). For a detailed explanation and an overview of features and capabilities for each license edition, please visit: www.datacore.com/products/sansymphony/licensing
Enterprise-class edition offers the highest performance, richest feature set and the most flexibility.
Standard edition is ideal for midrange requirements.
Business edition is the cost-efficient entry level of SANsymphony suited for smaller but demanding HA installations.
Backup Repository edition is fully featured and optimized to be used
as backup and remote replication target.
