DataCore SANmelody storage virtualisation solution deployed by North American Stainless
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Storage virtualisation specialist DataCore Software announced on Wednesday its SANmelody storage virtualisation solution has been deployed along with VMware vSphere by stainless steel provider North American Stainless.
No financial details were disclosed.
According to the company, the two redundant SANmelody SANs, which are mirrored, are connected to redundant switches that are in turn connected to four VMware ESX hosts to remove any single point of failure.
The solution provides North American Stainless redundant, high-availability SANs that are synchronous, connected with a direct-attached fibre link. This means the company can withstand a full hardware failure at a server level, at a switch level as well as a SAN level and still be up and running in production.
The virtual infrastructure powered by VMware and DataCore supports the company's Oracle ERP system servers, several SQL servers, Blackberry server, fax servers, print servers as well as user data. The ability to add VMs 'on-the-fly', which was a primary objective in going virtual, is enabled through the combination of VMware vSphere's live migration functionality and the DataCore SAN.
The combined solution also allows the IT team at North American Stainless to do testing on applications in such a way that any testing procedures for new applications are segmented from the overall system. This is accomplished with DataCore SANmelody serving as a complete virtual storage infrastructure and storage management system.
