Fujitsu Siemens Computers Tape Appliance manual Virtual tape for the Dynamic Data Center

CentricStor

Virtual Tape Appliance

Intelligent Data Protection

Issue January 2008

Pages 4

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 thus making tape fit for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).

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 industry- leading 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

provisioning of resources. Thin Provisioning allows space to be easily allocated to servers, on a just-enough and just- in-time basis.

Key Features	Benefits
„ CentricStor makes tape fit for ILM	„ Dual Target unifies disk and tape storage
(Information Lifecycle Management)	„ Backup windows are minimized
	„ Data Compression and Deduplication*)
	„ Alignment at different Service Level Agreements (SLA)
„ True Tape Virtualization (TTV)	„ Superior connectivity
	„ Thin Provisioning of storage resources
	„ Consolidation of physical backup storage devices
	„ Outstanding TCO reductions
„ CentricStor Grid Architecture (CGA)	„ Unmatched scalability
	„ Unmatched disaster resilience
	„ Non-disruptive upgrades
	„ Live Monitoring and Health Check
	*) The new CentricStor Version 4 is the base for future deduplication