Product : DataCore, SSY [SDS]/10.0 PSP12, x86
Feature : Snapshot Granularity, Points-in-Time, Data Availability
Content Owner:  Herman Rutten
Summary
Per VM (Vvols) or Volume
Details
With SANsymphony the rough hierarchy is: physical disk(s) or LUNs -> Disk Pool -> Virtual Disk (=logical volume).

Although DataCore SANsymphony uses block-storage, the platform is capable of attaining per VM-granularity if desired.

In Microsoft Hyper-V environments, when a VM with vdisks is created through SCVMM, DataCore can be instructed to automatically carve out a Virtual Disk (=storage volume) for every individual vdisk. This way there is a 1-to-1 alignment from end-to-end and snapshots can be created on the VM-level. The per-VM functionality is realized by installing the DataCore Storage Management Provider in SCVMM.

Because of the per-host storage limitations in VMware vSphere environments, VVols is leveraged to provide per VM-granularity. DataCore SANsymphony Provider v2.01 is certified for VMware ESXi 6.5 U2/U3, ESXi 6.7 GA/U1/U2/U3 and ESXi 7.0 GA/U1.