DataCore SANmelody Testing - New OpenBench Labs Report

...We fully expected to see some loss in throughput at the virtual disk server due to the inherent overhead of our topology; however, what we encountered was a measurably significant drop in I/O workload at the storage array as a sizeable number of read requests were satisfied out of SANmelody’s cache. Using 8KB random read requests, we were able to handle 50,000 I/O requests per second (IOPS)...
http://www.virtual-strategy.com/VSM-Labs/DataCore-SAN-Melody/-2.html

VMware Virtual Center Plug-in Presentation

Presentation delivered at Storage Expo previews the new VMware Virtual Center Plug-in. Release is expected in November. Stay tuned for more...
http://www.datacore.com/forum/thread/237/vmware-virtual-center-plug-in-storage-expo-presentation.aspx

Sneak Preview - Powerful Migration Capability - Transporter for SANmelody & SANsymphony

SANmelody & SANsymphony Transporter Option

Fast and most general way to import Windows images, including the boot drive, between dissimilar physical or virtual platforms without waiting for lengthy disk‐to‐disk copies or error prone conversions.

See Sneak Preview Presentation (includes animations so view in slideshow mode) from Storage Expo.

The DataCore Software Community User Forum is now live!

DataCore has just activated a new DataCore Software Community User Forum: http://www.datacore.com/forum/forum.aspx

From the DataCore web site, you can also link and enter the forum - Links are located under the General Resources, the Support landing page or Blogs & Communities button on lower left side of Home page.

Please check out the site and help pass the word on to other DataCore users - let's get everyone participating and make this the best user forum and information site possible.

VMware Virtual Center Plug-in & Transporter Option

A new flyer prepared for Storage Expo provides screen shots and overview information.
A PDF is available at: http://www.datacore.com/forum/attachments/10142008153454_SNW_preview_VI_Transporter_7Oct08_(2).pdf

DataCore storage virtualization & Citrix's 'XenApp-optimized' XenServer 5

http://vmblog.com/archive/2008/10/14/datacore-storage-virtualization-and-citrix-s-xenapp-optimized-xenserver-5.aspx

DataCore's SANsymphony™ and SANmelody™ products have been certified on Citrix’s newest XenServer 5 release as virtual SAN appliances, as well as on both standard servers and blades. With XenServer 5, 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. Citrix XenApp (formerly Citrix Presentation Server) is used by more than 100 million users and 99% of the Fortune Global 500.

DataCore Latest Updates, Tech Bulletins and Releases

Customer Support has added the links on the main page:
http://www.datacore.com/support/support_home.asp
Update 1 for SANmelody was recently released, some info & latest post on the user forum: http://www.datacore.com/forum/thread/8/sanmelody-2-0-3-psp-3-.aspx