DataCore Storage Virtualization Certified for Use with Citrix XenServer 5

DataCore Software, a provider of storage virtualization software, has announced that its SANsymphony and SANmelody products have been certified for use with Citrix’s newest XenServer 5. These products can run as virtual SAN appliances, as well as on standard servers and blades.

 

Citrix certified that the two products support XenServer 5 virtual machines as shared storage pools, following rigorous testing. The products provides many manufacturer-independent features such as 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.

 

Citrix said XenApp workloads can be virtualized with as little as seven percent overhead and as many as 73 percent more users than XenApp workloads virtualized with competing products. More than 100 million users use Citrix XenApp (formerly Citrix Presentation Server) and 99 percent of the Fortune Global 500 do as well.

 

By implementing DataCore SANmelody or SANsymphony to virtualize the storage pools for Citrix XenServer, XenApp and XenDesktop configurations, Citrix partners have gained a competitive edge as well as a new crop of customers. Companies will now experience a wave of server virtualization brought on by the appeal of Citrix XenServer as a Citrix partner with a keen focus on Virtualization.

 

As DataCore unlocks advanced XenServer features such as high availability and XenMotion, it is regarded as the perfect match for XenServer. Also, integrating shared SAN storage with DataCore’s SANmelody is considerably easier today than it has been in past XenServer releases with the release of XenServer 5.0.

 

“Our storage virtualization software creates a ‘storage usability layer,' giving your storage the consolidation flexibility, simplicity, and utilization benefits of virtualization and the advantage of performing all your important storage services across all your physical storage as a single pool, instead of having to fuss with these devices individually,” said George Teixeira, president and CEO DataCore Software. “Now more than ever, storage virtualization is being adopted hand-in-hand with server, desktop and application delivery virtualization.”