Overview

Sanbolic’s Melio FS or Kayo FS can be used with Hyper-V to provide a shared LUN to all host servers for virtual machine files, which can greatly simplify storage provisioning and management. In addition, Melio FS can be installed on Hyper-V guest servers to provide concurrent read-write access to application data on a SAN. This functionality is not available from Microsoft or VMware.

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is Microsoft’s hypervisor-based server virtualization solution, which is available as part of select versions of Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and Datacenter editions also provide integrated failover clustering at no additional charge, when used in combination with Hyper-V allows customers to move virtual servers between physical hosts. Unlike VMware Virtual Infrastructure, native Hyper-V does not currently have the capability to use a shared SAN LUN to store virtual machine files. Each virtual machine needs to have it’s own SAN LUN in order to use quick migration to independently move virtual machines among hosts.

Key benefits of Sanbolic’s shared storage solutions with Hyper-V:

• Hyper-V virtual machine images can be stored on a single shared volume on SAN storage, enabling any virtual machine to be easily and quickly moved to any physical host server. There is no need to create a separate LUN for each virtual machine.

•Windows guest servers running on Hyper-V can have concurrent shared reas and write access to application data on a SAN volume, providing multiple paths to the data, application scalability, and improved performance for multi-tier applications.

• Multiple storage arrays can be aggregated into a single pool of storage that can be configured and assigned centrally using a simple intuitive interface.

• Windows Active Directory, DFS, Hyper-V, and clustering features are supported.

• Reporting on storage I/O and transaction performance facilitates optimization of storage intensive workloads. The file system also incorporates quality of service assignment to allow prioritization of defined workloads in storage bandwidth-constrained environments.

• Sanbolic’s clustered file system and volume manager is very easy to install and manage, and can be used with any industry standard iSCSI or fibre channel storage hardware.

Melio FS provides a shared LUN to all Hyper-V hosts for virtual machine files and can provide a shared LUN to guest servers for application data.
 
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