Virtual Disk Provisioning

Server Virtualisation has, for many companies, been the primary focus. However, extending the concept to your storage infrastructure is not only logical, but will often an equal impact, if not more, on your costs, the flexiblity of your environment and crucially your storage management overheads.

Applied Technolgies utilise the latest technolgies from HP and IBM to deliver powerful and scalable disk solutions for your virutal environments :

HP LeftHand
HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions deliver enterprise functionality that enhances virtual environments, simplifies management, and reduces costs. Easy to deploy, scale and maintain, HP P4000 SANs ensure that crucial business data remains available. Click to learn more.

IBM Storwize V7000
The IBM® Storwize® V7000 system, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies, exceptional ease of use and performance—all integrated into a compact, modular design that’s offered at a competitive, midrange price. Click to learn more.

IBM XIV
An integral part of IBM’s broad spectrum of system storage and Storage Area Network (SAN) offerings, the XIV system is based on a grid of standard, off-the-shelf hardware components connected in any-to-any topology by means of massively paralleled, non-blocking Gigabit Ethernet (GbE). Its innovative architecture is designed to deliver the highest levels of reliability, performance, scalability and functionality at low overall cost, while providing unprecedented ease of management. Click to learn more.

SVC
Disk storage, even in the larger SAN environments, can still be disparate islands of storage and consequently will require more management time, resources and can remain underutilised in some areas, while others desperately require space.

Even relatively small storage environments can benefit from IBM's SVC (SAN Volume Controller). SVC is heterogeneous, working in almost any SAN environment, and by spanning IBM, EMC, HP and other brands, it can consolidate your entire storage infrastructure with many associated benefits :

•Designed to combine storage capacity from multiple disk systems into a reservoir of capacity that can be managed more efficiently

•Designed to help increase storage utilisation by providing host applications with more flexible access to capacity

•Designed to help improve storage administrator productivity by automating provisioning and enabling management of heterogeneous storage systems using a simple common interface

•Designed to support improved application availability by practically eliminating storage-related causes of application downtime

•Designed to enable a tiered storage environment in which the cost of storage can be better matched to the value of data

•Designed to support advanced copy services from higher- to lower-cost devices and across storage systems from multiple vendors

•Designed to reduce costs and improve flexibility with iSCSI host attachment

•Designed to enable greater flexibility in storage acquisitions

•Designed to deliver ultra-high performance for critical workloads with innovative and tightly integrated support for solid-state devices (SSDs)

To learn more about the SVC and how it can be utilised in your infrastructure, contact one of our consultants to arrange a demonstration.

Resources :

• IBM SVC Tutorial (Flash Movie)
• IBM SVC Data Sheet
• Reducing data costs and complexity with tiered storage