This is a milestone for Datacore. The SANMelody product is now fully certified by VMware as a supported solution in the iSCSI configuration. I expect that it’s only a matter of time now that the FC interface will be certified as well. SANMelody has been a community certified product for quite a while, but getting the official stamp of approval from VMware is a big deal for a lot of clients that want to be assured that they have a fully supported solution.
Personally, I find that it’s one of the best values on the market for a flexible, high performance SAN solution with a robust, easy to use high availability option.
Storage Compatibility Update: “Added support for DataCore SMY‐VS5‐2970. See ‘DataCore,’ on page 42 and ‘SAN Array Model Reference,’ on page 62.”
Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide For ESX Server 3.5 and ESX Server 3i
(Via VMware.)