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- Enterprise-class storage virtualization in a more affordable package for mid-sized businesses
- Designed to combine storage capacity from multiple disk systems into a reservoir of capacity that can be managed more efficiently
- Designed to help increase storage utilization by providing host applications with more flexible access to capacity
- Designed to help improve storage administrator productivity by automating provisioning and enabling management of heterogeneous storage systems using a simple common interface
- Designed to support improved application availability by practically eliminating storage-related causes of application downtime
- Designed to enable a tiered storage environment in which the cost of storage can be better matched to the value of data
- Designed to support advanced copy services from higher- to lower-cost devices and across storage systems from multiple vendors
- Designed to reduce costs and improve flexibility with iSCSI host attachment
- Designed to enable greater flexibility in storage acquisitions
- Supports a wide range of operating systems
Building a simpler, more responsive IT infrastructure
Mid-sized businesses are turning more and more to virtualization technologies to simplify operations, improve utilization of assets, improve productivity, and to enable their IT infrastructure to be more flexible and responsive to changing business needs. Some look to storage virtualization to complement and enhance server virtualization while others use storage virtualization to help regain control of their storage.
IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Entry Edition delivers enterprise-class storage virtualization capability in a more affordable package optimized to better meet the needs of mid-sized businesses.
SAN Volume Controller Entry Edition helps simplify management of your storage infrastructure and provides a single easy-to-use point of control even as your storage needs grow. In this way, SVC Entry Edition helps improve productivity of administration staff so you can manage your storage as your business grows.
Through pooling of storage and advanced functions such as thin provisioning, and snapshots, SVC Entry Edition helps improve storage utilization to improve your return on investment (ROI) and also to help control storage growth. SVC Entry Edition is an affordable way to increase the flexibility of your IT infrastructure so you can respond more quickly to business demands while knowing you are controlling your storage investments and improving efficiency.
SAN Volume Controller Entry Edition can grow with your business and can easily be converted to the enterprise SAN Volume Controller system for outstanding growth potential.
SVC Entry Edition supports attachment to servers using iSCSI protocols over IP networks, which can help reduce costs and simplify server configuration. iSCSI attachment avoids the cost of fibre channel host bus adapters (HBAs) in servers and reduces the need for fibre channel switch ports. This new capability may be particularly attractive for IBM BladeCenter® server configurations.
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- Combine storage capacity from multiple vendors for centralized management
- Increase storage utilization by providing more flexible access to storage assets
- Improve administrator productivity by enabling management of pooled storage from a single interface
- Insulate host applications from changes to the physical storage infrastructure
- Enable a tiered storage environment to match the cost of storage to the value of data
- Apply common network-based copy services across storage systems from multiple vendors
- Support data migration among storage systems without interruption to applications
- Supports consolidated disaster recovery site servicing more than one production location
- Enables almost instant recovery from disk backups.
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