Mark Peters, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, said: “What will encourage more users to make the move to fully virtualised environments is knowing that they have overall control and management of what is a highly complex and dynamic infrastructure. In combination with the major server virtualisation platforms (such as VMware), SVM software from LSI can offer the overall storage infrastructure that users seek.”

Another new feature called “My SVM” is designed to improved productivity and security by allowing storage administrators to create secure user domains, and to then allocate capacity and define specific functions that individual users will be allowed to perform.

Working in conjunction with the LSI 8400 Data Path Module (DPM), SVM multiMirror synchronous mirroring performance has been significantly enhanced by offloading resource-intensive data replication tasks from servers and storage controllers. The DPM is a high-performance SAN appliance that greatly accelerates data movement between source and target volumes. Additional enhancements to SVM allow SAN administrators to conveniently manage all forms of data protection and mobility through a single, consistent user interface.