Products | Features
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
- 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) remote mirroring
- Asynchronous (store and forward) IP-based remote mirroring.
Client-side Features (optional concurrent licenses)
- Host-based alternate pathing drivers to ensure diverse routes to mirrored data.
- Client-side block-level caching that accelerates I/O performance of LAN-attached systems.
- Laptop and desktop IP-based remote mirroring and restoration services to ensure a recovery image is always available at a central site.
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