Veritas™ Storage Foundation

09/07/2009

We all know Symantec as Endpoint Security and Data Backup and Recovery, but did you know...
Symantec have a raft of intelligent data center products that help to maximise the efficient use of your hardware. Storage is getting less expensive and hardware vendors continue to release more and more intelligent hardware solutions, but the struggle is making the most out of that investment and physically fitting it into the data center; space is at an all time premium, electricity bills ever increasing, budgets shrinking, and while virtualisation is helping us fit more servers into a limited space it does not necessarily mean that the storage solutions being used are any better provisioned or utilised to their full capacity...this is where Veritas Storage Foundation™ can help.

What is Veritas Storage Foundation?
Veritas Storage Foundation™ provides a complete solution for heterogeneous online storage management. Based on the industry-leading Veritas Volume Manager™ and Veritas File System™, it provides a standard set of integrated tools to centrally manage explosive data growth, maximise storage hardware investments, provide data protection and adapt to changing business requirements. Unlike point solutions, Storage Foundation enables IT organisations to manage their storage infrastructure with one tool. With advanced features such as centralised storage management, non-disruptive configuration and administration, Dynamic Storage Tiering, Dynamic Multi-pathing, data migration and local and remote replication, Storage Foundation enables organisations to reduce operational costs and capital expenditures across the data center.

What it offers and what that means for you?

Storage Foundation Manager - Centralises management across multiple server platforms to provide complete visibility to application, server and storage resources.

Dynamic Multi-pathing (DMP) - Balances I/O across all available paths between the server and the storage array to improve performance and availability. With Dynamic Multi-pathing, common failures from I/O path, HBA, or switch failures can be avoided as administrators can spread I/O across all available paths.

Dynamic Storage Tiering - Allows the administrator to identify and move unimportant or old files to less expensive storage without changing the way users or applications access the files.

Online Administration - Limits the amount of time disks need to be offline for maintenance by performing volume and file system resizing (including shrinking), domain reconfiguration, file system defragmentation, backup, and off-host processing while the data remains online and available.

FlashSnap - Takes instant, full volume or space-optimised snapshots of data for off-host processing, disk-based recovery and backup. Only resynchronises changed blocks for fast resynchronisation.

Portable Data Containers - Easily and quickly converts data for use on different operating systems. Makes it easy to migrate to new operating systems.

Storage Checkpoints - Instantly creates disk backups of files or file systems that require no additional disk space. The backup can be easily restored by the user. Useful for maintaining an original copy of a file system while doing development work.

Automated Performance Tuning - Automatically tunes each write for optimal performance. Administrators no longer need to manually tune writes for performance.

Hot Relocation - Automatically migrates data from failing disks to healthy disks.

RAID support - Supports all levels of RAID for maximum availability and performance.

Volume Replicator Option - Provides continuous data replication, enabling rapid and reliable recovery of critical applications at remote recovery sites all guaranteed to work by asynchronous replication 100% of the time by Symantec.

What next?
If you think your business could benefit from the above features contact our Symantec Business Manager, Lance Williams, on 01628 403309 or LanceWi@softcat.com to find out how you could start using Veritas Storage Foundation™ Basic for free.