Veritas Storage Foundation lets you group physical disks into logical volumes to improve disk utilization and eliminate storage-related downtime. It can also move data between storage arrays, spread I/O across multiple paths to improve performance, and automatically migrate unimportant or older files to inexpensive storage.
Key Benefits
Increased storage utilization
I/O path optimization
Cost-saving dynamic storage tiering
Seamless data migration
Broad multi-vendor support
Immediate Utilization and Performance Gains
Increase your storage utilization and ease the pain
When you can maximize and manage storage capacity across heterogeneous operating systems and storage hardware, all from one screen, you're saving time. With Veritas Storage Foundation, you can. You dynamically grow volumes and file systems with less work, more efficiently. And it automates daily, repetitive storage tasks and performs them online. That includes RAID reconfiguration, defragmentation, and file system and volume resizing.
eVirtualization on, utilization up, performance up
Veritas Storage Foundation lets you virtualize volumes across your heterogeneous storage infrastructure the way you want for each situation. Virtualize multiple volumes within a single server or let one volume span several servers with full visibility among them. It'll boost your utilization. Better yet, volume virtualization sets the stage for easily moving data between different operating systems and storage arrays.
Dynamic Multipathing Reroutes I/O for higher availability and performance
Data path rerouting for faster I/O? All it takes is Veritas Storage Foundation's Dynamic Multi-pathing (DMP) feature. DMP's intelligent algorithms load-balance storage I/Os across multiple host bus adapters (HBAs) for faster throughput. Let's face it, not all HBAs are created equal. DMP chooses the best path, for example, 4 Gb/sec Fibre Channel HBAs. DMP also increases application availability by re-routing I/Os to an available data path in the event of a path failure. And of course, it's all centrally managed with the Storage Foundation Management Server.
End-to-End Data Protection
Background data migration
You need to automatically move unimportant or out-of-date files to less-expensive storage devices, without changing the way users or applications access those files. Now you can. With the Dynamic Storage Tiering capabilities of Storage Foundation, you can create policies that move files based on date created, last time accessed, owner, size, name, or type. And, they'll be dynamically moved without having to take the application offline.
Local and remote data protection is here
Veritas Storage Foundation provides data protection with copy service options that solve both your local and remote replication needs. With the FlashSnap feature, you can create point-in-time copies with minimal impact to applications and users. The snapshots—full volume or space-optimized—are easily moved among servers with Storage Foundation's full heterogeneous, tiered storage support to maximize utilization. That's especially useful for resource-intensive processes, such as backups, testing, decision support, and reporting.
High-performance replication too
For mission-critical applications that require remote recovery sites, the Veritas Volume Replicator option delivers efficient data replication over IP networks. This gives you an extremely flexible, high-performance alternative to traditional array-based
replication architectures. How flexible? You can combine virtually any collection of storage devices on any major operating system and get a consistent, easy-to-manage, high-availability solution, or an extremely fast and reliable disaster recovery solution.
Long-Term Investment Protection
Expand your universe with multi-vendor support
This broad storage management product was designed for wildly heterogeneous server and storage environments, with no hardware, database, or application agenda. That's our customers' reality. As a result, you get the expanded freedom to go for industry-leading functionality across platforms - wherever you find it - without getting locked into proprietary solutions. Skip the roadblocks in narrowly compatible management products. Instead: Optimize your entire storage network with a broader range of choices.
