LSI unveils s/w for centralised management

BANGALORE, INDIA: LSI Corporation announced the release of its latest LSI StoreAge SVM (Storage Virtualisation Manager) software suite. 

LSI StoreAge SVM software suite is an advanced services platform that enables centralised storage management and multi-level data protection for distributed, heterogeneous storage environments.

Based on industry-proven, fifth-generation architecture, the SVM software suite includes centralised volume management, storage pooling, snapshot, volume copy, data migration and mirroring applications.

The new architecture is designed to deliver greater scalability for up to a 10X increase in the number of snapshots and replication tasks per volume, and incorporates new features such as thin provisioning to help simplify virtualised infrastructure management and dramatically increase storage capacity utilisation. The software also delivers green benefits by allowing storage platform consolidation, which reduces data centre power consumption for improved energy efficiency. 

Phil Bullinger, executive vice president and general manager, Engenio Storage Group, LSI, said: “Large-scale consolidation is the economic imperative of the twenty-first century data centre. By complementing server virtualisation with StoreAge SVM, customers can regain control of their data and dramatically increase capacity utilisation.”

SVM software’s dynamic thin provisioning feature enables users to allocate virtual capacity to meet the relentless data growth demands triggered by today’s applications. This eliminates the need to over-allocate large amounts of real capacity to individual applications, reducing the amount of physical storage and allowing up to a 2X improvement in capacity utilizstion. It also improves application availability by eliminating disruptions caused by everyday data management tasks like increasing file allocations or expanding volumes to meet constantly changing requirements.

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.