| Easily Deploy Advanced Storage Services |
| The LSI StoreAge Storage Virtualization Manager (SVM) provides the most advanced services platform for deploying data management and multi-level data protection solutions. The advanced storage services suite of tools enables centralized management across multiple storage systems and SAN islands for improved Business Continuity. The LSI StoreAge SVM storage services suite includes snapshot, volume copy, and migration and mirroring applications. |
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| Centralized Management, Storage Pooling and Array Clustering |
| The LSI Storage Virtualization Manager, SVM, provides a single storage management interface for multiple storage systems. It dynamically provisions volumes, reclaims unused space and maximizes application uptime by seamlessly expanding capacity on a “just-in-time” basis. The StoreAge SVM offers clustering capabilities that maximizes throughput and reduces management complexity. |
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| Rapid Application Recovery |
| Utilizing frequent, instant, low capacity snapshots of production data using StoreAge multiView, enables the customer to rapidly recover business critical applications. Recovery of entire applications can be achieved in minutes using multiple consistency groups at multiple recovery points that significantly minimize data loss and speed recovery. |
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| Seamless Any-to-Any Data Migration |
| StoreAge SVM offers an online volume migration capability using StoreAge multiMigrate that enables any-to-any data migration while production applications remain online. The original data stays intact and can serve for backup purposes. Online data migration helps organizations to seamlessly refresh their storage infrastructure for enhanced asset management. |
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| Advanced Copy Services |
| StoreAge SVM provides instantly accessible full volume copies that enable a wide range of use cases, such as streamlining application development and testing, non-disruptively creating reporting instances and updating data warehouses with the latest production data. The StoreAge SVM’s new advanced copy services are enabled by the multiCopy software, permitting Sun customers to significantly improve services. |
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| Cost Effective Snapshot Enhanced Data Mirroring Services |
| The StoreAge SVM centrally manages data mirroring activities across the enterprise using low-capacity snapshots of mirrored volumes. This built in mechanism allows the customer to rollback an application to any previous snapshot of data. Consistency Groups enable application data to be safely and consistently copied to the remote DR site. |
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| Tiered Storage Mobility and Management |
| With a tiered storage infrastructure, the StoreAge SVM enables non-disruptive migration of applications and data from older, slower or more expensive storage to newer, faster or less expensive devices. The LSI StoreAge SVM presents the potential for a dramatic decrease in an organizations’ total cost of ownership. |
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| Storage Pooling |
| The SVM enables the allocation of virtual volumes from any SAN storage device to any server. Volumes can be expanded over various different mixed breed storage devices. The utilization of storage resources can be maximized with storage pooling. The creation of several pools according to site-defined Quality of Service (QoS) criteria allows uniform allocation of storage with necessary characteristics to application needs. |
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| Striping |
| Striping a volume over several devices can substantially increase performance, especially with large stripe sizes—a megabyte or more—that match application I/O sizes. |
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| Virtual Volume Management |
| Volumes are created from storage pools and stripe sets. Each volume can be allocated to one or more servers and is not accessible to all others. When a volume needs to be expanded, more capacity can be added “on the fly” from one of the storage pools. Creating, expanding or deleting a volume does not require a server reboot. |
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| Dynamic Provisioning Volumes |
| Storage Virtualization Manager allows volumes to be provisioned. Dynamic provisioning of volumes allows to avoid over allocation of storage as well as to avoid downtime for volumes expansion. |
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| Advanced Storage Service Applications |
Storage Virtualization Manager includes enterprise class services applications:
- multiView for low capacity snapshots
- multiCopy for full size volume replication
- multiMigrate for seamless online data migration
- multiMirror for synchronous and asynchronous, local and remote mirror
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