Storage Virtualization Deployment Models

This document is only concerned with either the ‘Hyper-converged’ or ‘Hybrid-converged’ deployment models. However, for completeness, all of the possible deployments are listed below.

Traditional Storage Virtualization

The Host servers and the Storage arrays, managed by SANsymphony, are all physically separate from the DataCore Server.

Converged

Only the Host servers are physically separate from the DataCore Server. All Storage arrays managed by SANsymphonyare internal to the DataCore Server.

Hyper-Converged

The Host servers are all guest virtual machines that run on the same hypervisor server as SANsymphony. All Storage arrays managed by SANsymphony are internal to the DataCore Server.

Internal Data and or External Disk

On the root partition of a Windows server (e.g. Microsoft Hyper-V)

In a virtual machine (e.g. VMware ESXi, Citrix Hypervisor, Oracle VM Server, Microsoft Hyper-V)

Hybrid-Converged

A combination of both Hyper-converged and Traditional Storage Virtualization. In the implementation design displayed below, the application servers run on the hypervisor, where the SANsymphony node is installed, and also attached as a physical server via iSCSI.