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IBM System Storage N7000 software features at a glance
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Software
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Description
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Benefit
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Advanced Single Instance Storage (A-SIS)
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Performs block-level data deduplication on NearStore® data volumes
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Volume data is automatically scanned and deduplicated, resulting in immediate space savings with minimal impact on operations
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Data ONTAP®
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N series storage operating system providing full-featured and unified data management for both block and file serving environments
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Single architecture and user interface simplify data management and reduce costs for SAN and NAS deployment
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Disk Sanitization
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The process of physically obliterating data by overwriting disks with specified byte patterns or random data.
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Helps prevents recovery of current data by any known recovery methods
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FlexCache™
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Creates a flexible, horizontally scalable caching layer within your storage infrastructure that automatically adapts to changing usage patterns to eliminate bottlenecks
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Intended to improve application response times for large compute farms, speed data access for remote users, or create a tiered storage infrastructure that circumvents tedious data management tasks
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FlexClone®
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Instantly creates LUN and volume clones without requiring additional storage
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Accelerated test and development and storage capacity savings
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FlexShare™
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Prioritizes storage resource allocation to highest value workloads on a heavily loaded system
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Ensures that best performance is provided to designated high-priority applications
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FlexVol®
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Creates flexibly sized LUNs and volumes across a large pool of disks and one or more RAID groups
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Fast, simple and flexible storage provisioning and high-capacity utilization
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MetroCluster
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An integrated high-availability/disaster recovery solution for campus and metro-area deployments
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Ensures high data availability when a site failure occurs
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MultiStore®
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Securely partitions a storage system into multiple virtual storage appliances
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Enables secure consolidation of multiple domains and file servers
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NearStore (near-line)
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Increases the maximum number of concurrent data streams (per storage controller)
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Enhances backup, data protection and disaster preparedness by increasing the number of concurrent data streams between two N series systems
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Operations Manager
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Manages multiple N series systems from a single administrative console
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Faster deployment and consolidated management of multiple N series systems
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Protection Manager
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Backup and replication management software for N series disk-to-disk environment
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Improves productivity through automation of data protection tasks; delivers higher assurance of data protection than with manual execution of tasks by reducing human errors
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Provisioning Manager
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An easy-to-use application that allows administrators to apply consistent data set provisioning policies across the enterprise, automate complex provisioning processes, check policy conformance and pool storage resources for higher utilization
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Policy-based automation simplifies storage provisioning, ensuring that the provisioning process is repeatable, scaleable and auditable, while mitigating the risk of data loss due to misconfigured storage
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RAID-DP™
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Double parity bit, RAID protection (N series RAID 6 implementation)
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Protects against data loss due to double disk failures, and media bit errors occurring during drive rebuild processes.
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SecureAdmin™
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Authenticates both the administrative user and the N series system, creating a secure, direct communication link to the N series system
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Helps protects administrative logins, passwords and session commands from "cleartext" snooping by replacing RSH and Telnet with the strongly encrypted SSH protocol
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Single Mailbox Recovery for Exchange (SMBR)
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Enables the recovery of a single mailbox from a Microsoft® Exchange Information Store
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SMBR can extract a single mailbox or email directly in minutes compared to hours with traditional methods. Helps eliminate the need for IT staff intensive, complex and time-consuming exchange server and mailbox recovery
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SnapDrive®
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Provides host-based data management of N series storage from Windows®, UNIX®, and Linux® servers
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Simplifies host-consistent Snapshot™ copy creation and automates error-free restores
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SnapLock
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Write-protects structured application data files within a volume to provide WORM disk storage
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Provides storage enabling compliance with government records retention regulations
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SnapManager®
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Provides host-based data management of N series storage for databases and business applications
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Simplifies application-consistent Snapshot copies, automates error-free data restores, and enables application-aware disaster recovery
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