SANRAD launched a new generation of V-Switch Intelligent Network Switches, the V-Switch 3440 and the V-Switch 3840. Designed to enable the cost-effective management of virtual storage infrastructures, the V-Switch solutions feature an open, heterogeneous storage networking architecture with enhanced connectivity and integrated storage virtualization and disaster recovery to complement virtual server environments.

“In a recent ESG survey, 54% of current users said that server virtualization has had a net increase on storage capacity,” said Mark Bowker, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “In parallel, IT organizations face new challenges in protecting their virtualized infrastructure from application downtime or data loss and finding a solution that can fit their constrained IT budgets. SANRAD’s V-Switch solutions have been optimized to work seamlessly with server virtualization to ensure business continuance and disaster recovery failover protection.”

The V-Switch 3440 and V-Switch 3840, with integrated SANRAD Storage Pro software, are open, scalable solutions that deliver SAN connectivity and storage management for any physical or virtual server. Featuring 4 Gig Fibre Channel (FC) ports, the V-Switch 3440 and 3840 deliver comprehensive storage pooling, virtualization and management services. Global Data Replication (GDR) software can be added to provide enterprise-class data replication and site recovery between V-Switch products located at facilities connected by any local metropolitan or wide-area IP network. The V-Switch 3440 includes 4 FC ports; the V-Switch 3840 includes 8 FC ports and higher throughput performance. Both solutions offer advanced features, including redundant hot-swap power supplies, compact flash, and built-in robust storage management and virtualization services.

SANRAD’s new StoragePro GUI, integrated with the V-Switch product family, includes an intuitive top-down menu where key tasks such as volume creation, global data replication, and data migration can be easily performed in a single step. StoragePro also includes new enhancements to complement the benefits of server virtualization, such as virtual machine disaster recovery without user intervention and optimizing virtual snapshots for a virtual server environment.

Economical Solution, Extends Data Protection and Migration
“SANRAD gives enterprise IT managers an economical solution that extends centralized data protection and access across the entire organization,” said Dave DuPont, CEO, SANRAD. “The new V-Switch 3440 and 3840 extend SANRAD’s proven IP storage networking product line, offer improved usability and support the fastest disk arrays. They provide enterprise-class storage management and high availability at a fraction the cost of competing solutions, and are a perfect complement to virtual server environments.”

The V-Switch 3440 and 3840 deliver the following key benefits:

• Cost-effective Storage Consolidation
• Seamless Enterprise-Class Disaster Recovery
• Integrated High Availability for Virtual Server environments
• Optimized Storage Virtualization
• Easy iSCSI to Fibre Channel SAN
• Non-Disruptive Data Protection and Migration

“Disaster recovery and virtualization are a critical part of our overall IT strategy,” said Victor Rodriguez, IT administrator of Valmesa. “As one of the largest property and asset valuation companies in Spain, we needed to replicate our data and services to a remote data center in order to start our core services in four hours or less in case of a disaster in our main data center. We also needed a solution that would be resilient to transient network failures in the replication path and that would give us the ability to create a flexible virtual storage and server infrastructure with 24x7 uptime. SANRAD clearly offered the best disaster recovery and virtualization solution.”