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IBM® TotalStorage® SAN File System (SFS) simplifies file and data management in your storage area network
It views and manages files and file systems as a centralized IT resource with a single point of administrative control. Supports centralized policy-based storage management.
- Consolidates file systems across UNIX®, Windows®, and Linux® servers
- Simplifies file and database management and improves administrator productivity through policy-based data management
- Enhances data sharing and collaboration through a single global name space across heterogeneous server platforms, with high performance and full locking support
- Reduces storage needs by pooling available and temporary filespace across heterogeneous servers and storage platforms and reducing the need to maintain duplicate data for sharing
- Improves application and data availability and lower failover costs by reducing or eliminating application downtime for storage and data management tasks
- Simplifies and lowers the cost of data backups through application-server-free backup and leveraging built into file-based FlashCopy functions
- Provides an on demand storage environment for fast and simple deployment through file-level virtualization, policy-based automation, and support of open standards
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Make local copies of data managed by SAN File System to use for offline backup without affecting the production database server
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