Features and Benefits
StorageTek 9900 software makes it easy to manage heterogeneous storage systems, providing you with dynamic provisioning, partitioning and virtualization capabilities that simplify storage management, increase utilization, and improve application service levels.
Key Benefits
- Simplifies management
- Increases storage utilization
- Consolidates and virtualizes heterogeneous storage
- Increases IT productivity
- Improves quality of service
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Simplified Storage Management
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Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Tuning Manager
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Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Tuning Manager Software maps, monitors, analyzes, and reviews storage network resources. This software provides an intuitive, Web-based interface that enables forecasting of future storage needs. Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Tuning Manager software integrates seamlessly with key business applications such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL to facilitate consolidation of storage resource management procedures. Fully integrated with Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Device Manager, it can help reduce total cost of ownership by maximizing storage utilization, improving storage performance and capacity management.
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Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Device Manager
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Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Device Manager software allows you to manage all Sun StorageTek 9900 series systems and any other storage products that comply with the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) from a single, central platform. It enables users to logically organize and manage storage to reflect the needs of different organizations or departments.
The software provides an immediate view of available storage and current usage, enabling easy deployment of storage resources according to current needs. It simplifies automation of data management and configuration—improving organizational operations.
Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Device Manager software helps mitigate risk by allowing automated failover and providing quick access to complementary products. By reducing training costs and allowing single-point administration, the software can help reduce operational costs.
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Reduced TCO with Dynamic Provisioning
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StorageTek 9900 Dynamic Provisioning
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StorageTek 9900 Dynamic Provisioning software improves storage utilization and simplifies storage provisioning, improving service levels. The software simplifies storage management by enabling you to do more with less. It eliminates many of the service interruptions required to install and format new disk capacity.
You can allocate storage to an application without actually having the physical storage. This just-in-time method means that storage allocations can exceed the amount of storage that is physically installed. It also decouples the provisioning of storage to an application from the physical addition of storage capacity to the storage system, simplifying the provisioning process.
With Dynamic Provisioning software, application storage provisioning is simpler, faster, and less demanding than traditional provisioning. You can draw from the Dynamic Provisioning pool without immediately adding physical disks.
When the time comes to add physical storage, you can simply and non-disruptively install additional disks by adding them to the Dynamic Provisioning disk pool. Decoupling physical resource provisioning from application provisioning simplifies storage management, reduces application outages, and saves time and money. What's more, Dynamic Provisioning software also helps you save because you're using fewer physical disks, reducing the associated space, power, and cooling costs.
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Enhanced Business Continuity
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Sun StorageTek 9900 Universal Replicator
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Data replication is key to ensuring business continuity, maximizing uptime, and enabling disaster recovery. The ability to replicate effectively in any environment over any distance without data loss is critical. The Sun StorageTek 9900 Universal Replicator goes beyond traditional replication to achieve unmatched data protection. Able to asynchronously replicate over any distance in a heterogeneous environment, the software represents a technological breakthrough that lets you significantly lower the cache and resource consumption of the primary storage system.
In addition, the new delta resynch feature coupled with three datacenter
multi-hop support provides the most concurrent multi-site replication capability and enhanced data protection available. Together, these features make Universal Replicator one of the best solutions for enterprises with zero or near-zero recovery point objectives.
For example, you can use this software to replicate from a Sun StorageTek 9900 or 9990V system to a Sun StorageTek 9985V system, regardless of distance. The software uses performance-optimized disk-based journaling and a pull-style replication engine to help mitigate link failures, preventing data loss even in the event of a communications breakdown. The software also helps improve
bandwidth utilization and optimize your resource usage.
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Sun StorageTek 9900 ShadowImage In-System Replication
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Sun StorageTek 9900 ShadowImage In-System Replication Software uses high-speed, nondisruptive local mirroring to rapidly create multiple copies of mission-critical data within all Sun StorageTek 9900 series systems, in both mainframe and open-system environments. This software keeps your data RAID protected and fully recoverable, simplifying and speeding the recovery process. Its consistency- group function provides multivolume, point-in-time copies of applications and databases, and its Quick Restore feature reduces recovery time from data corruption.
ShadowImage can handle large data volumes without affecting performance, creating copies for backup, testing, and data mining without impacting revenue-generating applications. ShadowImage reduces testing time and increases competitive advantage by facilitating information sharing within the organization and providing always-available copies of current production data. You can also create space-efficient copies using the copy-on-write (CoW) feature.
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Virtualization Improves Economies
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Sun StorageTek 9900 Virtual Partition Manager
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Sun StorageTek 9900 Virtual Partition Manager software enables the logical partitioning of ports, cache, and disk capacity on a Sun StorageTek 9990V system and any attached, virtualized systems to create up to 32 independently managed Virtual Private Storage Machines. Virtual Private Storage Machines create separate, dedicated storage resources for specific users, servers, or applications.
Sun StorageTek 9900 Virtual Partition Manager allocates storage resources based on business requirements and individual priorities, and allows you to update the allocation as needed, helping ensure the most efficient allocation of resources and enabling organizations to meet service-level agreements. To the host, partitions appear as individual, independently managed storage systems. Access to partitions is secure because administrators can only configure and manage resources within their assigned partitions.
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Sun StorageTek 9900 Universal Volume Manager
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Simplified management is a key component of large-scale data storage consolidation. Sun StorageTek 9900 Universal Volume Manager software allows you to manage multiple storage systems connected to the Sun StorageTek 9900 system under a single point of control. Using Universal Volume Manager, you can virtualize and manage up to 96 PB of mixed storage systems from Sun and other vendors as if they were all one system. External storage volumes form a shared storage pool that can be used by multiple servers and multiple applications.
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Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Tiered Storage Manager
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Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Tiered Storage Manager lets you store and manage data according to its current business value and to satisfy quality of service and cost requirements as they change over time. For example, a critical piece of information included in an online transaction becomes less important when the transaction is complete.
The software enables administrators to easily match price, performance, and availability needs to storage system characteristics. It manages and automates the movement of data into the correct tier according to cost, performance, data protection and business requirements.
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