TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller

Simplified and centralized management for your storage infrastructure

Managing the information explosion without complexity

Are your storage requirements growing too fast? Are the costs of managing this growth taking more and more of your IT budget? Would you like to make a better use of existing storage without adding more complexity to the infrastructure? IBM® System Storage® SAN Volume Controller can help solve these problems and get you on the road towards a more flexible, responsive, and efficient storage environment. SAN Volume Controller is designed to deliver the benefits of storage virtualization in environments from large enterprises to small businesses and midmarket companies.

Easy to implement

IBM® System Storage® SAN Volume Controller software is delivered preinstalled on SVC Storage Engines so it is quickly ready for implementation once the engines are attached to your storage area network (SAN). SVC Storage Engines are based on proven IBM System x® server technology and are always deployed in redundant pairs, which are designed to deliver very high availability.

SVC is designed to take control of existing storage, retaining all your existing information. This ability helps speed and simplify implementation while helping to minimize the need for additional storage. Once SVC is implemented, you can make changes to the configuration quickly and easily as needed.

SAN Volume Controller uses a completely new graphical user interface modeled on the IBM XIV® Storage System, which has been very well received by customers. The user interface is designed to be very easy to use and includes many built-in IBM recommendations to help simplify storage provisioning and enable new users to get started quickly.

Plugins to support Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and VMware vCenter help enable more efficient consolidated management in these environments.

Highlights

• Simple and more productive management: Web-based storage administration from a single point of control
• Improve storage efficiency: better utilization of storage capacity, enabling businesses to tap into previously unused disk capacity
• Deliver SAN performance at a lower cost: 10 Gbps iSCSI supports high performance at a lower cost
• Optimized Storage Tiering: IBM System Storage Easy Tier feature optimizes solid-state storage deployments simply and automatically
• Flexibility and Scalability: Systems can scale up without disruption from the smallest configuration to the largest.
• Easier to use: A fresh new user interface, based on the popular IBM XIV interface, helps speed deployments and improve productivity.

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Features	Advantages	Benefits
Creates a single pool of storage from multiple disk arrays	Utilize your assets more efficiently, virtually eliminate storage related downtime	Reduce cost and complexity, Increase application availability
Make changes to the storage infrastructure without disrupting applications	Enable non disruptive infrasctructure changes	Increase application availability and personnel productivity
Creates a tiered storage environment	Match the cost of the storage to the business value of the data, a key first step in managing information over its life	Improve ROI
Use a single set of copy services across different classes of storage	Reduces the cost of assuring business continuance and simplifies replication management	Reduce cost and complexity

• Combine the capacity from multiple heterogeneous storage systems into a single reservoir of storage which can be managed from a central point

• Manage large storage environments through expanded scalability

• Enable changes to the physical storage systems with minimal or no impact to the applications running on the hosts.

• Reduce downtime for planned and unplanned outages, maintenance and backups

• Increase storage capacity utilization, uptime, administrator productivity and efficiency

• Provide a single set of advanced copy services across multiple heterogeneous storage systems