Improve storage efficiency and data mobility with IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center
Today, expectations continue to rise, and business and IT are moving faster to respond. In server environments, virtualization has become the norm with hypervisors providing for increased flexibility and improved utilization of physical assets. CIO’s are now turning attention to their storage estate.
Enter the IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center and its ability to make real, tangible impact on storage costs while dramatically improving flexibility. With a IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center, physical disk capacity from multiple arrays is pooled together and consumed one virtual slice at a time driving up utilization. Virtual volumes are mobile from tier-to-tier, vendor-to-vendor, and site-to-site giving IT managers the flexibility they need to respond faster. And storage services remain common even across a disk array vendor change giving CIO’s ultimate control over the rising cost of storage.
The IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center is both a storage virtualization platform (IBM SAN Volume Controller) and storage virtualization management (IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center). And it is more, much more, than improved efficiency and data mobility. The IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center offers the integrated services that IT managers need to meet rising expectations.
Application-integrated data protection connects business applications and VMware to virtual volume snapshot to modernize recovery
IT-integrated disaster recovery connects virtual volume mirroring with IT recovery automation tools like IBM PowerHA, IBM Tivoli System Automation, and VMware Site Recovery Manager to ensure business continues after a disaster
Mobility-driven disruption avoidance connects cross-site virtual volumes with virtual server mobility tools like IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility and VMware vMotion to create virtual datacenters that span physical locations
Virtual datacenter management connects IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center management with server hypervisor management tools like IBM Systems Director VMControl and VMware vCenter to improve management efficiency and reduce training time
Storage services catalog lets IT managers provide a clear description of available services to their clients, and control costs
Self-service provisioning gives IT managers the push-button storage capacity provisioning that dramatically reduces operational workloads
