Overview

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, maximize storage hardware investments, provide data protection, and adapt to changing business requirements. Unlike point solutions, Storage Foundation enables IT organizations to manage their storage infrastructure with one tool. With advanced features such as centralized storage management, online configuration and administration, Dynamic Storage Tiering, Dynamic Multi-pathing, data migration, and local and remote replication, Storage Foundation enables organizations to reduce operational costs and capital expenditures across the data center

Features

Online storage management with heterogeneous operating system (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AIX) support and broad set of qualified storage devices and arrays. Storage Foundation Management Server allows centralized management of diverse applications, servers and storage. Dynamic multi-pathing enables I/O to be efficiently spread across multiple paths for path failure protection and fast failover. Dynamic storage tiering enables data to be dynamically moved to different storage tiers to rapidly respond to changing business needs. Key Benefits : Increase storage utilization across heterogeneous operating systems and storage arrays. Increase operational efficiency with comprehensive visibility and centralized management of applications, servers and storage across multiple hosts. Enhance storage I/O path availability and performance and efficiently spread I/O across multiple paths. Free data from technology changes – dynamically migrate data to different tiers of storage and perform seamless data migrations across different server architectures.