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Storage Virtualization Products | SANmelody | Benefits
SANmelody Delivers Cost & Energy Savings, Simplicity, Performance &
Productivity:
- Dramatically improve disk utilization through storage consolidation,
pooling and automated thin storage provisioning that puts "Fat Storage"
on a diet and reduces energy and space requirements by as much as 50%.
- Reduce operational burden by centralizing and automating storage
administration across like or dissimilar equipment.
- Slash planned and unplanned downtime using non-disruptive, automatic
failover and failback recovery, thin provisioning, thin replication and
disaster recovery techniques.
- Increase performance, connectivity and productivity, allowing you to
get more work done in less time and support more users with existing
personnel and resources.
Operational and Economic Benefits
SANmelody™ software brings the following benefits to companies that have maximized their servers' internal disk storage:
- Least costly mechanism to expand disk space beyond existing server capacity
- No need to deploy another copy of an application on a separate machine just to add disks
- Addresses broader requirement for higher availability and better data protection by allowing a redundant copy of critical volumes to be kept separate from application servers
- Enables rapid recovery from catastrophic application server failure by allowing redundant copy to be quickly reassigned to a replacement server without hardware changes
- Follows familiar approach of commissioning a general purpose server to handle a specialized task
- Eliminates wasteful disk space that may have been orphaned behind dedicated servers
- Makes it easy to take advantage of advanced data protection functions when they are needed
Additional Benefits from SANmelody Advanced Options
Customers receive the following enhanced benefits when they incorporate one or more of SANmelody's advanced options into their environment:
Fibre Channel Support
- Accelerates the I/O response time experienced by applications
- Increases the bandwidth available between applications and storage
Snapshot Option
- Reduces application downtime for backups to near zero
- Ensures rapid recovery to a known good point-in-time
- Offloads application server from transmitting disk contents during backups
Auto-Failover Option [between redundant disk servers]
- Dramatically enhances data availability
- Makes possible non-intrusive disk server hardware changes
- Your choice of Fibre Channel or IP (iSCSI) connections
Auto-Provisioning Option
- Takes the guess work out of capacity allocation
- Ensures optimal utilization of available capacity
Asynchronous IP Replication [between distant disk servers]
- Allows remote sites to maintain up to date copies of local volumes
- Facilitates continuous data sharing between remote sites
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