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Products | SANsymphony | Benefits

Enable greater staff productivity
With your IT staff overworked and the hiring budget frozen, it's time to automate and centralize storage tasks. The variety of tedious, manual storage-related duties, make it hard for even highly skilled personnel to manage much more than a few terabytes. With consolidated storage control and automation, SANsymphony relieves the management burden by as much as ten-fold.

Just-in-time Space Allocation
Such incredible increases in productivity are easy to understand when you consider that administrators never have to perform such laborious tasks as resizing volumes ever again. SANsymphony offers an ingenious approach to automated storage provisioning - Network Managed Volumes.

Network Managed Volumes are presented to storage consumers as if they were the largest disks addressable by their operating systems. In reality, only a fraction of that capacity is physically allocated from the storage pool. As the application consumes additional space, more blocks are dynamically and automatically assigned to meet demand. This completely does away with disruptive and time consuming disk repartitioning and resizing and eliminates wasted space caused by over-provisioning.

Centralized and Simplified Management
Administrators of storage pools Powered by DataCore™ use an intuitive, familiar graphical interface to categorize, prioritize, and allocate capacity with the proper quality of service (QoS) characteristics required to suit business objectives. Storage Domains, another unique SANsymphony feature, make these tasks even easier to accomplish, with features that deliver optimal performance and security for a variety of applications. By assigning different performance and priority levels to Storage Domains that reflect departmental or business objectives, administrators can configure the software to constantly ensure that the most important applications never feel the effects of network congestion. In addition, capacity planning metrics may be rolled up for the entire pool or apportioned to individual storage domains as necessary for charge-backs and trend analysis.