Crossroads ReadVerify Appliance (RVA)

A simple, real-time way to monitor, track and report on performance, utilization and health of tape resources

Feature Benefits
System monitoring
  • Helps reduce data risk by monitoring and alerting on the health and integrity of the tape drives and media, thus enabling proactive management and corrective action before failures occur
  • Assesses tape media validity over its effective life to remove error-prone or defective media before a backup failure occurs
  • Provides rapid problem identification which reduces personal overhead required for unscheduled data recovery activities
Policy-based alerting and reporting
  • Delivers real-time, emailed alerts individually configured to user-defined thresholds
  • Correlates reported errors to specific degrading resources, thus minimizing troubleshooting time and reducing risk to data
  • Reports information that helps configure library systems that maximize and balance utilization and performance of the tape drives
  • Provides a comprehensive view into the performance, utilization and health of the tape library environment, providing visibility into the root cause of incomplete backups, unbalanced drive usage and low-performing assets
ArchiveVerify (AV)*
  • Offers a completely automated process to validate media readability based on administrator-applied policies
  • Helps meet regulatory compliance and minimize data risk through scheduled, automated data validation that reduces the risk of data recovery failure
ReadVerify Advanced Reporting*
  • Generates dynamic, user-managed reporting for understanding complex system interactions that can impact system behaviour, saving diagnostic time and money
  • Utilizes long-range tape metric views to project future budget and system needs

* Requires optional feature

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