Single point-of-control for heterogeneous storage resources
Designed to increase management efficiency
Designed to help support business application availability
Pools the storage capacity of multiple storage systems on a SAN
Helps you manage storage as a resource to meet business requirements and not just as a set of boxes
Helps administrators better deploy storage as required beyond traditional “SAN islands”
Can help increase utilization of storage assets
Insulate applications from physical changes to the storage infrastructure
Clustered pairs of “storage engines” based on IBM System x® technology
Highly reliable hardware foundation for the SVC appliance
Designed to avoid single points of hardware failure
Scalable to support 1024 host servers
Provides room for growth as demanded by business conditions
Easy-to-use graphical management interface
Single interface for storage configuration, management and service tasks regardless of storage vendor
Helps administrators use their existing storage assets more efficiently.
Dynamic data migration
Migrate data among devices without taking applications using that data offline
Manage and scale storage capacity without disrupting applications
Manage tiered storage
Helps balance performance needs against infrastructure costs in a tiered storage environment
Advanced network-based copy services
Copy data across multiple storage systems with FlashCopy®
Get faster recovery from disk backups with Reverse FlashCopy that is designed to enable almost instant recovery from disk backup copies.
Copy data across metropolitan and global distances as needed to create high-availability storage solutions
Help reduce cost for business continuity with new Multiple Cluster Mirror function that helps enable a single consolidated disaster recovery center supporting up to three production data centers
Space-Efficient Virtual Disks and Space-Efficient FlashCopy
Dramatically reduce physical storage requirements through “thin provisioning” and “snapshot” technologies
Improve storage administrator productivity through automated on-demand storage provisioning
iSCSI Support for server attachment
iSCSI attachment avoids the cost of fibre channel host bus adapters (HBAs) in servers and reduces the need for fibre channel switches. This new capability may be particularly attractive for IBM BladeCenter server configurations.
IBM Tivoli® Storage FlashCopy Manager application-aware snapshots
Performs near-instant application-aware snapshot backups, with minimal performance impact for DB2, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange
Provides advanced, granular restoration of Microsoft Exchange data
Supports clustered application environments (MSCS or VCS on Windows and HACMP on AIX) as well as Microsoft Exchange 2007 continuous replication configurations (LCR, CCR and SCR)
