Are your storage requirements growing too fast? Are the costs of managing this growth taking more and more of your IT budget? Would you like to make a better use of existing storage without adding more complexity to the infrastructure? IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller can help solve these problems and get you on the road toward a more flexible, responsive and efficient storage environment. SAN Volume Controller is designed to deliver the benefits of storage virtualization in environments from large enterprises to small businesses and midmarket companies.
A member of the IBM Storwize family, SAN Volume Controller is a storage virtualization system that enables a single point of control for storage resources to help support improved business application availability and greater resource utilization. The objective is to manage storage resources in your IT infrastructure and to make sure they're used to the advantage of your business - and do it quickly, efficiently and in real time, while avoiding increases in administrative costs.
Virtualizing storage with SAN Volume Controller helps make existing storage more effective. SAN Volume Controller includes many functions traditionally deployed separately in disk systems. By including these in a virtualization system, SAN Volume Controller standardizes functions across virtualized storage for greater flexibility and potentially lower costs.
SAN Volume Controller functions benefit all virtualized storage. For example, easy tier optimizes use of flash storage. And Real-time Compression enhances efficiency even further by enabling the storage of up to five times as much active primary data in the same physical disk space. Finally, high-performance thin provisioning helps automate provisioning.
These benefits can help extend the useful life of existing storage assets, reducing costs. Integrating these functions into SAN Volume Controller also means that they are designed to operate seamlessly together, reducing management effort.
