StorMagic, a developer of iSCSI (Internet SCSI) SAN (storage area network) management software for virtualized server environments, announced on Tuesday a high-availability (HA) kit of its SvSAN solution that allows organizations to benefit from advanced VMware virtualization features, which enable Business Continuity (BC) without having to incur the costs traditionally associated with shared storage.
High Availability (HA) has become a mandate for most businesses irrespective of their size, IT budgets, or the current economic climate. However, many IT administrators do not have the resources to deploy HA features, because they cannot afford the cost and complexity of the shared storage, which is one of the elements required in order to activate these features.
StorMagic offers cost-effective storage management software solutions that simplify, automate, and manage data storage for virtual server environments. It also provides software with ideal data management and migration capabilities, helping organizations protect and manage their mission-critical data. StorMagic has offices in Bristol, United Kingdom, and Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
StorMagic’s SvSAN HA Kit gives organizations the shared storage they need to unlock HA features, such as VMware High Availability (HA), VMware VMotion and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), maintaining online applications and constant accessibility.
The SvSAN HA kit provides a host of advantages to users, including enabling VMware HA, VMware VMotion and VMware DRS, providing he benefits of an included Virtual SAN with HA, and offering continuous access to datastores. It can also help protect corporate data, eliminate the cost and complexity of external shared storage, and maintain online applications and constant accessibility.
“The number of critical IT requirements is growing rapidly and yet the technical and financial resources available to them is mostly staying flat,” said Mike Stolz, vice president of marketing at StorMagic. “With our SvSAN kit, we are empowering our users by giving them the tools to take advantage of some very powerful features in their VMware environments.”
Users can download the SvSAN HA kit from the company site. It will provide a 2 TB SvSAN for an unlimited time, a 30-day High Availability license, and introductory support during the install phase. After the trial period, users can purchase the HA option for as low as $995 per node.
