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IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

Simplified and centralized management for your storage infrastructure

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Feature Benefits
Single point-of-control for 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
  • Insulates 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
Innovative and tightly integrated support for solid-state drives (SSDs)
  • Designed to deliver ultra-high performance capability for critical application data
  • SVC architecture scales SSD performance and capacity up to 4.8 TB and 800,000 read I/Os per second, yet has a small entry configuration, which helps make SSD more affordable
  • Move data to and from SSD without disruption; make copies of SSD data onto HDD
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. Based on the XIV GUI designed to make SVC even easier, more productive to use and able to be accessed from anywhere on the network with a web browser.
  • 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
Enhanced stretched cluster configurations
  • Concurrent access to a single copy of data from data centers up to 300km apart
  • Nondisruptive storage and virtual machine mobility between data centers
Thin provisioning and “snapshot” replication
  • Dramatically reduce physical storage requirements by using physical storage only when data changes
  • 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 Microsoft Windows and HACMP™ on AIX®) as well as Microsoft Exchange 2007 continuous replication configurations (LCR, CCR and SCR)

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