Features and Benefits of SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
Features |
Advantages |
Benefits |
Creates a single pool of storage from multiple disk arrays |
Utilise your assets more efficiently, virtually eliminate storage related downtime |
Reduce cost and complexity, Increase application availability |
Make changes to the storage infrastructure without disrupting applications |
Enable non disruptive infrastructure changes |
Increase application availability and personnel productivity |
Creates a tiered storage environment |
Match the cost of the storage to the business value of the data, a key first step in managing information over its life |
Improve ROI |
Use a single set of copy services across different classes of storage |
Reduces the cost of assuring business continuance and simplifies replication management |
Reduce cost and complexity |
Business Benefits
Simplify your storage infrastructure with IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller (SVC). Designed to enable changes to the physical storage with minimal or no disruption to applications, TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller combines the capacity from multiple disk storage systems into a single storage pool, which can be managed from a central point. This is simpler to manage, helps to increase utilisation and improve application availability.
TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller's extensive support for non-IBM storage systems - including EMC, HP and HDS - enables a tiered storage environment to allow you to better match the cost of the storage to the value of your data. You can apply advanced copy services across storage systems from many different vendors to help further simplify operations. Now on its seventh release, TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller is designed to manage even larger and more diverse storage environments.
Product highlights
- Combine the capacity from multiple heterogeneous storage systems into a single reservoir of storage which can be managed from a central point
- Manage large storage environments through expanded scalability
- Enable changes to the physical storage systems with minimal or no impact to the applications running on the hosts
- Reduce downtime for planned and unplanned outages, maintenance and backups
- Increase storage capacity utilisation, uptime, administrator productivity and efficiency
- Provide a single set of advanced copy services across multiple heterogeneous storage systems
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