Infostor Lab Review: SANmelody = storage virtualization panacea

The crew at Infostor recently put SANmelody through its paces in their lab and have just published a comprehensive review of their test methodology and findings. The Article can be viewed here (p.29) and downloaded here.

In brief, their conclusions/key findings were:

Full virtualization of direct-attached and SAN-connected storage

Simplified SAN infrastructure management through automation of storage administration tasks using the Windows MMC

SANmelody caching boosted I/O throughput by 33% running IOmeter

Round-robin LUN distribution of server I/O traffic benchmarked at 50,000 IOPS using 8KB reads with no I/O bottlenecks

No single point of failure with support for snapshots, synchronous mirroring, and synchronous replication