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SANsymphony™ software features and options
Core Functions
- Non-disruptive, capacity allocation
- Secure and flexible disk space provisioning (repudiates unauthorized access and discovery)
- Device, protocol and switch-agnostic storage network management
- Block-level disk virtualization (in-band)
- Read and write caching (network-wide)
- Protocol bridging (e.g., Fibre Channel to SCSI)
Centralized Management Features
- Uniform consolidated management from a central console (drag-and-drop GUI)
- Flexible Storage Domains:
- Map storage assets to departmental requirements and workloads
- Facilitate accounting and charge-backs
- Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) intended for 3rd party software integration
- Extensive I/O monitoring tools (graphical and textual)
- Comprehensive network discovery and diagnostic utilities to simplify configuration, and quickly isolate potential problems
Optional Features (per storage domain node)
- Dynamic Network Managed Volumes (Virtual Capacity)
- Appears to clients as largest addressable disk (e.g., 2 terabytes), but only consume physical space as needed
- Are automatically allocated space just-in-time
- Never need resizing or repartitioning
- Local and remote data replication (bi-directional)
- Volume-level point-in-time snapshot (full copy or space-saving difference-only view)
- Synchronous (real-time) high availability remote mirroring
- Asynchronous (store and forward) IP-based remote mirroring.
Asynchronous IP Mirrors � The Asynchronous I/P Mirroring (AIM) option is a bi-directional Asynchronous Mirroring (store and forward) feature utilizing standard IP transport mechanisms. Multiple AIM source and/or destination relationships can be set up using the AIM option on SANsymphony. When utilizing the AIM option in conjunction with SANsymphony, AIM has the ability to asynchronously mirror virtual volumes that are mapped to various types of application servers (Windows, Unix, Linux, Netware, etc).
Application Server Features (optional licenses)
- Host-based alternate pathing drivers to ensure diverse routes to mirrored data.
- IP-based asynchronous remote mirroring and restoration services to ensure a recovery image is always available at a central site.
- SQL2000 Snapshot and AIM support package.
High Availability Alternate Path software 뺻ataCore provides several alternate path software solutions for application servers that ensure continued I/O access in the case of a physical path failure.
- Windows Alternate Path (AP) Driver � Provides Fibre Channel path failover for Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Pro, Windows 2003 Server and Enterprise Server and Windows XP Pro. See the SANsymphony Support Matrix for additional details.
- Solaris Alternate Path (AP) Driver - Provides Fibre Channel path failover for the SUN Solaris operating system. See the SANsymphony Support Matrix for additional details and specific O.S. Revisions supported.
- DataCore MPIO Driver � Based on the Windows MPIO specification this driver provides Fibre Channel and iSCSI path failover for Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Pro, Windows 2003 Server and Enterprise Server and Windows XP Pro. See the
SANsymphony Support Matrix for additional details.
- AIX Alternate Path (AP) Driver � Provides Fibre Channel path failover for the IBM AIX operating system. See the SANsymphony Support Matrix for additional details and specific O.S. Revisions supported.
- In addition, there are several other 3rd-party Multipath driver solutions that DataCore has qualified for use on various operating system environments. See the
SANsymphony Support Matrix for additional details and specific O.S. Revisions supported.
Addtional Application Server Software � DataCore provides other product capabilities in the form of standalone software offerings for use on Windows Application servers.
- Asynchronous IP Mirrors (AIM) Client � AIM client runs and operates as a standalone application on a Windows application server independent of SANsymphony. AIM Client operates within the confines of a single Windows application server and can act as a AIM source for locally attached volumes only. AIM client provides the capability to asynchronously mirror select volume write operations (based on configuration) to a remote site running SANsymphony with the AIM option (the AIM destination).
- 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 SANsymphony 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 SANsymphony system (AIM destination) to take a remote Snapshot the DB volumes. See SQLsnap animation slides for functional operation.
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