StoragePro Software

StoragePro software is integrated inside the V-Switch and provides comprehensive storage management and virtualization services. StoragePro ensures simple and efficient use of storage resources for hundreds of connected servers. Its open system architecture provides complete storage flexibility, enabling IT managers to manage a single virtual pool of storage from any vendor. Because there are no incremental costs for adding servers, volumes, or storage capacity, companies gain significant cost savings over other offerings in the market.

StoragePro Software Key Features and Benefits

Open, Heterogeneous System Architecture Use any brand or type storage system directly connected or connected through a FC SAN fabric to the V-Switch to create and manage a single virtual storage pool. Leverage existing storage and combine any new storage from other vendors.
Server Scalability Using iSCSI over standard Ethernet networks, provide hundreds of servers with storage resources across the organization without the need for extra software or licenses.
Non-Disruptive Data Protection Use volume-based snapshots for non-disruptive online backup and data testing. Microsoft VSS is supported to coordinate V-Switch snapshots with Microsoft Exchange, SQL and other applications.
Easy, Live Data Migration Move or copy data between different storage systems in real time with no disruption to IT operations. Easily migrate data from any storage array to any other storage array, including different vendor models.
High Availability with Continuous Access Cluster V-Switches into active/active configurations to ensure continuous operation during network outage. Do mirroring to replicate data simultaneously and synchronously to 2, 3 or 4 separate storage systems. In the event of connection, network, SAN fabric, RAID controller or storage system failure, multipathing enables failover to another path or storage system.
Scalable Virtual Storage Pools Dynamically create large storage pools by consolidating many storage systems into a centrally managed pool that can easily scale to several peta-bytes.
Flexible Volume Creation Create new custom volumes from an individual storage system or across multiple storage systems. Volume creation is done on the V-Switch, independent of the storage system. Volumes can be expanded while remaining online and range in size from 1MB to 64TBs. The V-Switch can create and manage up to 52,000 individual volumes.
Virtual Storage Optimized for Server Virtualization Get completely autonomous recovery of virtual servers with no need for IT intervention. Gain uninterrupted virtual machine access to data even during complete system outages, regardless of the physical location of the virtual server.
High Performance StoragePro software’s real-time operating system ensures peak performance and extremely low latency to deliver line-speed data services to a large number of application servers.
Storage Security Gain server access control enforced by the StoragePro virtualization layer. Virtual volumes are selectively assigned to a pre-defined server or set of servers using SANRAD’s Access Control List (ACL) with CHAP authentication.