Fujitsu Tape Appliance User Manual

CentricStor Virtual Tape Appliance

Intelligent Data Protection

Virtual tape for the Dynamic Data Center

CentricStor is the first virtual tape solution that provides intelligent data protection by storing all enterprise backup data autonomously on disk or on tape. This unique Dual Target storage solution exploits the best of disk and tape in a seamless manner. CentricStor shortens backup windows with the performance of disk to a minimum and fulfils all recovery time objectives for each business critical environment. Thus making tape fit for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), enterprises data protection can be flexible aligned at different Service Level Agreements (SLA).

CentricStor offers superior connectivity with True Tape Virtualization (TTV) which supports the widest range of mainframes, open systems, NAS devices and industryleading backup applications in the industry. CentricStor is also ideal for Service Providers as True Tape Virtualization (TTV) is the basis for Thin Provisioning. CentricStor hides the complexity of backup storage devices from all servers and offers virtual tapes and virtual tape drives to applications without allocating physical tapes or drives in an inflexible way. Even the space in the disk cache is not assigned in a fixed way, allowing the most efficient

Key Features Benefits

provisioning of resources. Thin Provisioning allows space to be easily allocated to servers, on a just-e nough and j ustin-time basis.

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Issue January 2008

 CentricStor makes tape fit for ILM

(Information Lifecycle Management)

 True Tape Virtualization (TTV)  Superior connectivity

 CentricStor Grid Architecture (CGA)  Unmatched scalability

*) The new CentricStor Version 4 is the base for future deduplication

 Dual Target unifies disk and tape storage  Backup windows are minimized  Data Compression and Deduplication  Alignment at different Service Level Agreements (SLA)

 Thin Provisioning of storage resources  Consolidation of physical backup storage devices  Outstanding TCO reductions

 Unmatched disaster resilience  Non-disruptive upgrades  Live Monitoring and Health Check

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Efficient Data Compression and Deduplication

technology does further improve the economic allocation of capacity requirements. Such consolidated data centers simplifies companies’ administration efforts and lowers the total cost of storage also enabling efficient use of the most cost effective technologies and increasing energy efficiency.

The powerful CentricStor Grid Architecture (CGA) features unmatched scalability and leverages unmatched disaster resilience for protection against site outages. Its high level of redundancy is also the basis for non-disruptive upgr ades and provides data availability anytime to ensure business continuity for each class of data center. Potential risks in operation are identified through Live Mo nitoring and Health Check. So on top of standard maintenance services, activities can be started even before actual errors occur.

At this time, more than 500 installed CentricStor systems protect a data volume larger than 260 PB in data centers of financial services, communications, government and other industries worldwide. Superior intelligent data protection with the unified virtual tape solution for disk and tape backup is reality.

Resource Library

Following related documents are available in the Internet at

http://www.centricstor.com and under the link <Resource Library> resp. http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/products/storage/centricstor/popup_downloads.html

• Brochure

• Data Sheets

• Interoperability Guide

• Analyst Reports

• Case Studies

• Solution Facts

• Technical White Papers

• Manuals

• Flash demo

• CentricStor User Group

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