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Products | FAQs
1. What is SANsymphony and how does it work?
SANsymphony is a unique software product that lets you organize a mix and match of popular storage devices into a network storage pool. Open systems application servers running Windows, Unix, NetWare and Linux are allocated virtual volumes from the pool on demand, without the painful hardware reconfiguration and rebooting they go through today.
SANsymphony software runs on one or more Storage Domain Servers configured from commercial Wintel platforms. No overhead or software is added to either the application hosts or the storage devices. SANsymphony frees disks from being confined to individual hosts, while leveraging Fibre-Channel's enhanced distance, connectivity and performance. The result is a versatile and scalable relationship between application servers and networked storage resources.
With SANsymphony, virtual volumes of arbitrary size are rapidly allocated from the network pool to application servers who require additional capacity. To the application hosts, the virtual volumes appear as direct-attached disk drives. A secure, centralized drag-and-drop graphical user interface (GUI) provides the single point of management for authorized storage administrators.
Security features designed into SANsymphony ensure that only the hosts explicitly granted permission to a given volume may access it even though the devices are on the same SAN. Continuous availability of SANsymphony storage pooling services are assured through a network of redundant Storage Domain Servers.
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