Organizations today depend on information more than ever before, with business-critical
databases supporting everything from web sites to customer and product information
to data warehouses. These growing database volumes must be stored and protected
for longer periods of time. Consolidating data onto an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN simplifies
management and reduces costs.
Empower Messaging Application Administrators with an Easy-to-Use, Comprehensive,
High Performing Solution
Automatic high performance for transactional data
EqualLogic offers one of the highest I/O performance results for database applications
as validated by eliminate downtime.
Faster daily operations for DBAs
Faster daily operations for DBAs independent tests. Maximum performance is automatic
from the start – EqualLogic storage continuously self-optimizes as data changes
and storage is expanded.
Non-disruptive database expansion
As your database grows, PS Series arrays harness their aggregate resources to evenly
load balance data requests, additional capacity, network activity, and cache. When
volumes and logs grow, EqualLogic’s volumes grow online. In addition to instant
volume expansion, more physical storage can be non-disruptively added to your SAN,
increasing capacity and performance with EqualLogic’s online load balancing. With
EqualLogic advanced thin provisioning, database volumes can be preset to a specific
size at volume creation. Physical storage is then automatically allocated from the
free storage pool as the database grows in size. The benefits are simpler management
of database volumes, more efficient use of physical storage resources, and the realization
of seamless "buy as you grow" storage purchasing.
Database backup and recovery
With EqualLogic's built-in snapshot capabilities, clean snapshots of databases
and logs can be taken instantly and automatically. Any size environment, as well
as multi-database deployments, can be instantly reset to a previous snapshot to
resume database operations from a clean starting point; users don't wait for
data to be physically moved or copied. Snapshots can also be mounted as recovery
storage groups for easy database and log recovery. EqualLogic's built in auto-replication
capability enables internally consistent remote copies of databases and SAN boot
disks. EqualLogic is fully certified and compatible with leading backup and disaster
recovery solutions including applications from Asigra, CommVault Systems, Computer
Associates, EMC/Legato, FilesX, Microsoft (including DPM), Mimosa, Spectra Logic,
Sonasoft, Symantec, and TimeSpring.
Customized service levels for individual databases
EqualLogic's tiering and pooling capabilities enable automatic or customized
tiering of databases and logs. This enables DBAs to assign different storage tiers
to offer varying levels of storage performance to multiple databases. If service
level requirements change for a database, DBAs can easily move database volumes,
as well as other application data, to the appropriate service tier without downtime
or disruption.