What is StorMagic SvSAN?
StorMagic SvSAN is simple hyperconverged storage used to eliminate downtime. It provides high availability with two nodes per cluster, and boasts users among thousands of organizations to keep mission-critical applications and data online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
SvSAN is a lightweight solution that has been designed specifically for small-to-medium-sized businesses and edge computing environments such as retail stores, manufacturing plants and even oil rigs at sea.
SvSAN aims to provide organizations a simple, 'set and forget' solution that:
- Enables lightweight high availability as a virtual SAN (VSAN) with a witness VM that can be local, in the cloud, or as-a-service, and support up to 1,000 2-node clusters
- Provides a low barrier to entry with capacity-based licensing and minimal hardware requirements, allowing organizations to use existing equipment
- IT professional can deploy and manage 1,000 sites as easily as 1, with automation tools and scripts
SvSAN gives organizations choice and control by:
- Allowing configurations of any x86 server models and storage types, even mixed within a cluster, while vSphere, Hyper-V or KVM hypervisors can be used
- Being built to perform, with code that eliminates performance bottlenecks and caching features to boost performance and prevent over-provisioning
- Accommodating future growth and technologies with support for containers and VMs and allowing compute and storage to be scaled easily and independently
SvSAN's additional features help to deliver:
- 100% uptime with synchronous mirroring and no single point of failure, even with poor, unreliable networks, and non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades
- Disaster protection through stretched clusters that reduce risk, extensive integrations with backup and DR providers and the option to add a third node to clusters
- Data security with FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption, software RAID options and the elimination of split-brain risk
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Screenshot of StorMagic SvSAN plugin in VMware vCenter. SvSAN is fully integrated and certified in vCenter for seamless deployment and configuration.
Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-Premise, SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | All (global coverage) |
| Supported Languages | English |
FAQs
What is StorMagic SvSAN?
StorMagic SvSAN is a hyperconverged storage solution that provides lightweight, high availability in 2-node clusters. It allows organizations to deploy thousands of clusters as easily as one, on any x86 hardware, to ensure 100% uptime.
What are StorMagic SvSAN's top competitors?
Scale Computing Platform, VMware vSAN, and Azure Stack Edge are common alternatives for StorMagic SvSAN.