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Disaster recovery
Complex, expensive, time consuming and resource intensive, original SAN architectures were never conceived with today's threat and capacity levels in mind. A LeftHand SAN provides you with a more flexible, efficient alternative to costly redundant systems: a single, high availability SAN with built-in disaster recovery features that allow for more granular data protection.
Protection against large scale disasters
LeftHand's Snapshot and Remote Copy features let you maintain multiple copies of data at different sites with near real-time concurrency. Even in the event of a complete site failure, your business can maintain access to data.
Remote copy wizard for rapid, error-free recovery
Should you ever need to perform disaster recovery (DR) operations, the Remote Copy Disaster Recovery Wizard walks you through the failover operations to get the volumes online quickly and correctly in the DR site. Once the primary site comes back online, you can use the Wizard to failback to that original site.
Business continuity
Reliable data protection is critical to a healthy bottom line. Easy to deploy and maintain, LeftHand SANs ensure that your crucial business data remains available. LeftHand's network storage modules (NSM) systems provide unique double fault protection within each node and across the entire SAN, reducing your vulnerability without driving up costs the way traditional SANs can.
Multiple ways to protect
LeftHand SAN solutions protect your data in a number of ways:
- Double fault data protection – A LeftHand SAN can sustain two faults to a RAID group or storage pool without loss of data.
- Protection against system failures – NSM nodes are fully equipped storage systems, providing you with the redundancy you need in case one system fails.
- Easy, reliable data storage – A LeftHand SAN simplifies recovery procedures to eliminate failures caused by the complex manual operations required in traditional disaster recovery solutions.
Unmatched flexibility and rapid return on investment
LeftHand solutions provide you with a choice of SAN platforms, allowing you to select the right performance functionality for each environment you maintain. And NSM storage nodes can be distributed within a building or across a campus using standard Gigabit Ethernet networks, providing high availability without the costly duplicate storage network used in many legacy environments.
Data protection and management software is built into every LeftHand SAN, with no hidden costs reducing total cost of ownership, improving data availability, and mitigating risk.
Raise storage utilization
SAN/iQ® software provides just-in-time storage allocation through thin provisioning, which automatically allocates space for data as it is being written to the disk. Thin provisioning supports all SAN/iQ features including snapshots, remote copy, and asynchronous replication:
- Never overprovision storage
- Add storage as you need it and take advantage of constantly falling prices per gigabyte
- Raise storage utilization, efficiency and return on investment
- Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint
- Do more with less storage, increasing flexibility and reducing costs
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