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Virtual SAN Appliance for VMware ESX Data Sheet. 

Virtual SAN Appliance for VMware ESX

LeftHand's Virtual SAN Appliance for VMware ESX is the industry's first full-featured, virtual iSCSI SAN. Powered by the SAN/iQ software platform, a Virtual SAN for VMware will convert unused storage internal to VI3 servers into a clustered iSCSI SAN, providing all of the SAN services necessary for storage provisioning, data protection, management and availability in demanding datacenter environments. The solution will offer scalable capacity and performance along with advanced data availability via network RAID and multi-site SAN capabilities.

LeftHand's VSA will consolidate VMware ESX physical storage into virtual pools of iSCSI storage which can be managed from a single intuitive user interface. Take advantage of a wide range of enterprise-class features, such as space-efficient snapshots, thin provisioning, synchronous and asynchronous replication, automatic failover and failback, and manage them all through a single pane of glass.

SAN/iQ stripes your data across Virtual SAN nodes using our patented SAN/iQ Network RAID capability. All available capacity can be aggregated and virtualized for iSCSI volume creation. You'll have continuous data availability in the event of a network, disk, processor, or entire server failure.

Try SAN/iQ Software on Your Laptop Today

LeftHand has released trial demo and evaluation editions of SAN/iQ that you can download today. You'll get the full features and functionality of SAN/iQ to try out for 30 days. See for yourself how easy a LeftHand iSCSI SAN can be to install and manage.

Remote and Branch Office Solutions

LeftHand's VSA for VMware ESX will enable high availability and simple disaster recovery for remote and branch offices. Locations once considered too small or numerous for implementing SANs will benefit from the advanced technology VMware VI3 and SAN/iQ provide in larger environments. LeftHand Virtual SANs copy data over WAN links to SAN/iQ SANs utilizing enterprise class, industry standard x86 hardware. Incorporating all remote and branch offices into the same management used for the corporate data center will lower your cost of ownership and simplify backup and recovery.

Efficient VI3 Storage Solutions

Raise your return on investment in data center resources. Internal storage of VMware VI3 servers is typically unusable for features such as VMware's VMotion, HA, DRS, and VCB that require shared storage, and so becomes relegated to housing nothing more than install images for virtual machines. Implementing LeftHand's Virtual SANs on VMware VI3 servers allows for full utilization of all resources within physical servers, including disks. VSA for VMware ESX increases the usefulness and capabilities of resources already being powered, racked, and cooled in your data center by converting simple internal storage into more useable SAN storage from current resources.