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SANmelody Capabilities - More Detail SANmotion Overview - A Breakthrough Windows Data Migration Capability for VMware and Microsoft Environments. To see an animated presentation (PowerPoint),click here. Low-Cost Multi-Terabyte SAN Solutions for Microsoft and Linux iSCSI users Prices start below $1,000 Affordable Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Solutions Pricing starts below $8,000 for SANs and Multi-Terabyte Storage Sites DataCore SANmelody 2.0 A Breakthrough in Storage Utility, Data Protection and Price Performance SANmelody 2.0 iSCSI Highlights Industry뭩 Most complete iSCSI Offering Fast iSCSI Boot � Rapid Recovery and SAN Boot for Servers and Blades Asynchronous IP Mirroring (AIM) [PowerPoint] � Protects Data for Disaster Recovery Virtual Capacity [PowerPoint] - Disk Resource Consolidation and Auto Provisioning SANmelody Application Support Services Helping you Harness the full power and capabilities of SANmelody Animated Technical Tour � SANmelody Application Support Services [PowerPoint] Animated Technical Tour � DataCore VSS (Snapshots) [PowerPoint] SANmelody뭩 Powerful New Capabilities and Solution Services Simplify Storage Networking and Disk Management
The administration and management of Windows volumes is now more centralized. If a user requests a Windows volume it can now be formatted with a file system (NTFS/FAT) on it. The administrator can also install requested files on the volume. Then this volume can be presented / mapped to the application server for immediate use. No additional administrative actions are required on the application server. Consolidation of disk resources � Greater Flexibility You now have the ability to migrate disparate Direct Attached Storage (DAS) disk hardware off of independent Windows Application servers and workstations to a centralized location managed by SANmelody Network services. These disks can continue to be used as is (mapped back to the owning application server) or re-purposed and re-configured into Virtual Capacity pools of available storage that will provide more effective use of the disk resources and provide wider use and access to these resources. Immediate use and access of pre-existing Volume data � Save time SANmelody provides the ability manage and immediately utilize ("As is" ) formatted (NTFS/FAT) Windows volumes. Being able to utilize formatted volumes (NTFS or FAT) allows the user the immediate use of pre-existing data that resides on the file system of that volume. Using SANmelody tools the volume can be easily presented / mapped to the application server or workstation and the data can be immediately accessed by applications requiring this data. Windows Disk Data Migration made easy � Re-purpose or Move Rapidly Additionally, now that the disk resource has been physically moved and the user has immediate access to his data the process of migrating the data in real time off of the old resources onto something newer can easily be accomplished. This can be achieved by using SANmelody뭩 Synchronous mirror capability, Snapshot Complete image or even Host Based mirroring. Once the migration is completed the application server can utilize the data on the newer disk technology. It becomes a simple administrative task to deliver the newer volume to the user. The old disk with the old data can be retired completely from the system or re-purposed for less important uses. Maybe near line backup, maybe less important applications, maybe as secondary disk to be used only in case of a primary disk failure. Simplified backup � Efficient Disk to Disk Backup & Disk to Disk to Tape Once all windows volumes have been consolidated behind and being managed by the SANmelody storage server all data can be backed up from a single point instead of from all the application servers and workstations. This can be achieved by using the Snapshot feature and mapping the point-in-time Snapshot destination to the backup server. This can be done for each volume that requires backup. This further centralizes the administrative management tasks of IT personnel. DataCore VSS (Snapshot - SQL Server, Exchange 2003, & Windows 2003 file systems) Simplified disk뻯o-disk backup and rapid disaster recovery for SQL Server database volumes, Exchange 2003 information stores and Windows 2003 file systems utilizing Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS). DataCore뭩 VSS provides the ability to create a point-in-time copy for all VSS-aware applications including SQL Server, Exchange 2003 and Windows 2003 file systems to ensure the applications are in a consistent state to enable rapid recovery from a point-in-time and to simplify backup processes. The volumes are delivered to the application servers from SANmelody over iSCSI. DataCore snapshot commands can be issued either locally or remotely (via synchronous disk-to-disk mirrors or AIM � Asynchronous IP Mirroring) to enable back-up copies or an offline application to utilize the data volumes. See DataCore VSS animation slides for functional operation. DataCore SQLSnap (for SQL 2000 Database only) This Windows 2000 application support package provides the ability to quiesce the SQL 2000 Database (DB) and then flush cache so that the DB volumes and log files are in a consistent state. If the DB volumes involved are delivered to the application server from SANmelody then a Snapshot command can be issued, while the DB is in a quiesced state, which allows the consistent DB set to be backed up or used by an offline application. In addition, while the DB is in a quiesced state, AIM marker commands can be issued to the AIM source system that will in turn send the marker to a remote SANmelody system (AIM destination) to take a remote Snapshot the DB volumes. See DataCore SQLsnap animation slides for functional operation. Non-disruptive use of SANmelody features � Power up all your disks!
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