DataCore Software is increasing the size of its virtual disks from 2 TB to 1 PB, using thin provisioning to minimise how much real capacity has to be in place day one.
The virtual disks benefit from DataCore’s 1 TB per node, 64-bit ‘mega-caches’ and allow users to group multiple disk drives, each exceeding 1 TB, into RAID sets. DataCore storage virtualisation nodes can control pools consisting of numerous RAID sets, each well over the previous 2 TB maximum.
The disks are suitable for applications seeking to update and analyse very large datasets that will grow past the 2 TB cap.