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IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

Essential technology for a simpler IT infrastructure



Feature Benefits
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 IBM System x™ servers
  • 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®


  • Copy data across metropolitan and global distances as needed to create high-availability storage solutions


 
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