Today’s
servers have a lot of compute and internal storage capacity. Only a fraction of it is used for running
various applications. Store Virtual VSA transforms
the server’s internal or direct attached storage into an enterprise level
shared storage. This helps to deliver lower total cost of ownership and superior
ease of management, keeping the same physical foot print.
This can be
used in various ways depending on the requirement. It can provide dedicated performance and high
availability required at the primary location.
For remote locations it can work as a feature rich shared storage and
disaster recovery. An all flash array
can be created with VSA for maximum performance. And with Store Virtual
Adaptive Optimization, one can automatically migrate only the data that needs maximum
performance to SSD .
The VSA has
a scale out architecture which offers the ability to add storage capacity on
the fly without compromising on performance. It consolidated the internal and
external disks into a pool of shared storage.
Network
Raid which is a unique feature of Store Virtual family stripes and protects multiple
copies of data across multiple storage nodes, eliminating a single point of
failure. One can include storage nodes from different racks, buildings and even
cities to the Network raid to provide seamless application high availability
with transparent failover and fall back.
All VSA
nodes in the environment across multiple locations can be managed from
Centralized management console for simplified and easy management. Moreover as the storage needs evolve, it is easy to migrate from a VSA to a physical
Store Virtual box .
VSA
includes other advanced features like reservation less snapshots and thin
provisioning also. It has plug ins for VMware v Center and Microsoft System Center
to centrally administer both virtual machines and storage. The remote copy
feature enables centralized backup and disaster recovery.
See a brief
video on Store Virtual VSA Overview at below link.
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