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Highlights
- Enterprise-class storage virtualisation 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 utilisation 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 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 virtualisation technologies to simplify operations, improve utilisation of assets, improve productivity and to enable their IT infrastructure to be more flexible and responsive to changing business needs. Some look to storage virtualisation to complement and enhance server virtualisation while others use storage virtualisation to help regain control of their storage.
IBM System Storage SVC EE delivers enterprise-class storage virtualisation capability in a more affordable package optimised to better meet the needs of mid-sized businesses.
SVC EE 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 EE 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 EE helps improve storage utilisation to improve your return on investment (ROI) and also to help control storage growth. SVC EE 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.
SVC EE can grow with your business and can easily be converted to the enterprise SVC system for outstanding growth potential.
Common features
- Combine storage capacity from multiple vendors for centralised management
- Increase storage utilisation 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.
Hardware summary
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| Feature | Benefits |
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| Single point-of-control for storage resources |
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| Pools the storage capacity of multiple storage systems on a Storage Area Network (SAN) |
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| Clustered pairs of ‘storage engines’ based on IBM System x technology |
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| Scalable to support 1024 host servers |
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| Easy-to-use graphical management interface |
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| Dynamic data migration |
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| Manage tiered storage |
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| Advanced network-based copy services |
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| Space-Efficient Virtual Disks and Space-Efficient FlashCopy |
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