As part of IBM’s “Project Big Green” offerings, IBM has announced new storage virtualization to help clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, providing clients with a storage solution designed to help improve utilization rates, energy efficiency, availability, and scalability of critical applications.
IBM SAN Volume Controller
With IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 4.3 system your storage system administrator can pool storage volumes from IBM and non-IBM storage systems into a single reservoir of capacity for centralized management. This latest storage virtualization technology can reduce requirements for additional physical storage hardware systems, which can ultimately reduce overall energy usage in the data center.
IBM SAN Volume Controller version 4.3 adds critical new functions including:
Space-Efficient Virtual Disks use disk space only when data is written instead of reserving disk space for the entire capacity of a virtual disk.
Space-Efficient FlashCopy uses disk space only for changes between source and target data and not for the entire capacity of a virtual disk copy.
Virtual Disk Mirroring helps improve availability for critical applications by storing two copies of a virtual disk on different disk systems.
Improved Interoperability includes support for Windows 2008 and Mac OS X, as well as Pillar Axiom disk systems.
IBM System Storage Productivity Center (SSPC) is the management console for SVC systems. It is designed to provide clients with a superior management platform, integrating virtual and physical infrastructure management. SSPC includes TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication 3.4 preloaded providing support for SVC Metro and Global Mirror.
Put the latest tools into the hands of your storage system administrator, and focus on storage as a single resource to meet business requirements.
TPC for Replication manages advanced storage systems
IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Center (TPC) for Replication V3.4 helps you manage the advanced copy services provided by IBM ESS model 800, IBM DS8000™, and IBM DS6000™, including management of IBM FlashCopy®, Metro Mirror and Global Mirror capabilities. TPC V3.4 also extends Metro Mirror and Global Mirror services to include IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC). With TPC for Replication V3.4 your IT experts can use a single integrated tool for storage management, a feature designed to save administrators time and effort.
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IBM Multilevel Grid Access Manager is built on open architecture
The IBM System Storage Multilevel Grid Access Manager Software is built on an open, high performance grid architecture that delivers lifetime data protection, information lifecycle management, simplified storage management and open standards based multi-site data access.
