OpenBench Labs: SANmelody Analysis & Performance Report

New SANmelody Report - OpenBench Labs Performance Report
Author: Jack Fegreus, Ph.D.Managing Director OpenBench Labs
Eliminating Storage-Related Disruptions and Slow Downs via Storage Virtualization
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OpenBench Labs Test Briefing:
SANmelody Storage Virtualization Software
1) SANmelody consolidates resources and virtualizes storage at the disk-block level: Logical blocks are served from tiered storage pools that can be based on such characteristics as drive performance or dataavailability.
2) MMC Snap-in provides a unified single-pane-of-glass management for all storage resources: With storage resource management IT's biggest cost driver, SANmelody provides the means to manage heterogeneous storage resources centrally rather than as isolated devices.
3) HA and DR made practical: IT is no longer constrained to use identical hardware and can mix and match servers and storage at their disposal to assemble a highly-available storage infrastructure that also covers disaster recovery needs.
4) Dynamic virtual disk pools support thin provisioning: SANmelody efficiently automates thin provisioning across an entire SAN by consuming virtual disk blocks only when non-zero data is written by application servers rather than when virtual volumes are assigned.
5) SANmelody caching improves throughput: Running Iometer, SANmelody caching boosted I/O throughput by upwards of 33%.