DataCore SANsymphony Software Hyperconverged Deployments
SANsymphony may be deployed in a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) to create high-performance and highly-available disk pools using the local storage on application servers. The software may be installed on the host (such as a hypervisor, or virtual machine) to bring the advanced SAN features of the DataCore SANsymphony Software-defined Storage Platform closer to running applications. The host in an HCI configuration can take advantage of the same performance enhancing features used by dedicated storage servers such as storage pooling, thin provisioning, caching, and auto-tiering. The host can also leverage the performance of locally attached devices by reading and writing from fast server RAM and keeping data close to applications to avoid network latency issues.
SANsymphony HCI configuration works with a broad choice of hardware platforms and all major hypervisors.
An HCI node is a physical host or virtual machine which has SANsymphony running and is acting as a DataCore Server in a server group. HCI nodes are, for all intents and purposes, DataCore Servers running DataCore SANsymphony software. Storage resources for the server group are managed centrally from the DataCore Management Console. An HCI node combines compute, networking, and storage in scalable nodes.
HCI nodes are deployed using the DataCore Installation Manager for Hyper-V or DataCore Installation Manager for vSphere, automated installation tools that guide administrators through the initial deployment of DataCore SANsymphony software on DataCore Servers. The wizards perform prerequisite hardware and/or software checks, install the software, and perform port and server group configuration.
Also see:
Deployment Options for HCI Configurations
Configuration and Operational Notes for the HCI Node
Setting a Hypervisor Host for an HCI Node Running in a VM
Configuring Service Dependencies for Proper System Startup and Shutdown