Overview

Storage Foundation 4.3 for Windows brings advanced volume management technology, quick recovery and fault tolerant capabilities to Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 enterprise computing environments. Enabling on-line creation of virtual storage from physical disks and arrays, Storage Foundation removes the physical limitations of disk storage allowing you to configure, share, grow and manage mission critical heterogeneous storage and Storage Area Network (SAN) environments.

Features

Single GUI based drag-n-drop management console for on-line management of hetrogeneous storage across multiple hosts and operating systems. Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) capability integrated with Microsoft Windows MPIO framework, adds fault tolerance and I/O load balancing to disk storage. FlashSnap technology adds the ability to create independently adressable point-in-time snapshots mirrors of original server volumes to enable quick recovery of your application and data. Dynamic Disk Groups that extends Windows native logical disk management (LDM) capabilities to increase performance and availability in clustered and non-clustered enviroments. Key Benefits : Simplifies error-prone disk administration tasks, such as adding or moving storage resources or data. A single console manages SAN-based storage, and cluster configurations. Delivers reliable and pro-active fault tolerance to your Windows-based application, accelerates I/O performance by providing intelligent load balancing of workload across multiple paths to your storage. FlashSnap enables quick recovery of mission critical applications such as SQL Server or Microsoft Exchange, shrinks back-up duration, and provides off-host backup and recovery. Greater reliability and versatility of RAID storage management, with ability to maintain configurations in the event of OS failure and manage storage online without OS reboots.