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iQstor
iQstor Storage Systems
SAN
DAS
NAS
iSCSI
Backup and Archiving to Disk
 Sunstar
is proud to be an iQstor partner!
iQstor offers
enterprise-level data services features such as storage virtualization,
snapshot, mirroring, remote replication, storage provisioning and automated
capacity growth within each storage system, delivering storage scalability,
data protection, storage automation and management simplicity.
The data services
features are enabled using license keys and are available at price points
that are dramatically less than competing storage solutions on the market
today.
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iQstor
SAN Manager (SANM)
iQstor SAN Manager simplifi es SAN management and troubleshooting.
It automatically discovers, monitors and manages all the SAN
components deployed throughout the enterprise. It also provides the
user with a graphical view of the SAN topology and all the
interconnects through comprehensive and automatic SAN device
discovery, simplifying SAN administration and reducing management
costs. The iQstor SAN manager also monitors in real-time the health
and performance of all SAN attached components. |
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iQstor System Manager (SYSM)
iQstor System Manager is an embedded wizard-based configuration tool
that is available as a standard feature on every iQstor storage
system. With simple point-and-click operations to configure and
monitor storage resources, the policy-based System Manager enables
storage administrators to dynamically configure their storage system
from a single management browser. |
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iQstor SBOD Manager (SBOD)
With iQstor's SBOD Manager, IT administrators can avoid the
complexity that has been associated with configuration and
management of expansion enclosures in a direct attached storage
(DAS) environment. iQstor's SBOD Manager is a wizard-based,
policy-driven tool that dynamically configures, manages and monitors
the J2880 SBOD with minimal IT resources, delivering a
cost-effective solution that maximizes end-user storage investments. |
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Volume
Manager based Virtualization (VMV)
Using iQstor’s VMV technology allows companies to achieve
significantly improved economies of scale and operational
efficiencies, while delivering superior service to their customers.
VMV offers IT administrators many benefits, including the ability to
easily consolidate storage resources, reduce complexity, provision
storage on demand, and create multiple virtual arrays from a single
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Managed Snapshot
Services (MSS)
iQstor’s Managed Snapshot Services (MSS) provides quick and easy
virtual duplication of your critical data – at your fingertips when
you need it. Using MSS, you can maximize the limited backup windows
available for today’s 24x7 business applications with non-disruptive
snapshots that ensure data availability, require fractional space
(typically 10% to 20% compared to a full copy) and enable a
zero-backup window full performance backup. With MSS, businesses can
easily verify functionality, reliability and accuracy of
modifications to production – without impacting production data – by
instantly creating writeable test databases that require little
space and serve to improve accuracy of application testing. iQstor’s
MSS feature can also provide a solution by making the snapshot image
immediately available for situations where production data has been
accidentally corrupted.
MSS is especially
useful for applications requiring near-instantaneous point-in-time
virtual copies of the data. MSS offers users the ability to access
their data from any point-in-time without having to stop their daily
activities for routine tasks such as system backups. |
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Volume Copy Services (VCS)
iQstor’s Volume Copy Services (VCS) feature provides a comprehensive
mirroring solution within the iQstor storage system. VCS creates a
duplicate physical copy of a volume (vdisk) to effectively manage
information growth and data protection.
The volume copy
is an independent vdisk that can be assigned to any host or
application without affecting the performance of the original
production volume. With VCS, companies have an excellent tool for
decision support, system analysis, and application testing, bringing
an exact physical duplicate of source data for single or multiple
users.
To reduce
costly interruptions to production volumes while making a backup,
VCS can be used to split the mirror. The backup application will
then use the copy volume to create the backup. Once the backup is
complete, the split-mirror can be synchronized by updating the
volume copy with any changes made to the original volume. |
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Intelligent Capacity Management Services (ICM)
In today’s data center environments, the storage system’s ability to
automatically expand the virtual disk space to accommodate fi le
system growth is one of the key IT requirements for continuous data
center operation. To achieve the goals of 24x7 system uptime and
storage availability, iQstor’s Intelligent Capacity Management
Services (ICM) allows continuous monitoring of storage consumption
to easily prevent the system from running out of storage space.
The intelligent
policy-based management component of ICM allows the data center
administrator to automate file system and disk partition processes,
setting thresholds and policies to provision capacity from one or
more storage pools without server interruption. This intelligent
process eliminates costly downtime associated with traditional
physical disk upgrades and with re-building and re-formatting
operating system partitions that are due to unforeseen changes in
storage requirements, bringing workflow efficiencies with lower TCO
and higher ROI. |
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Remote
Replication - Synchronous (RRS)
Addressing business continuity requirements for off-site fi les
(data vaulting) where data is protected from various failures and
threats, and real-time replication of critical data between multiple
storage arrays (disaster recovery) are two common problems IT
operations must resolve in a cost-effective manner. With iQstor’s
Remote Replication Services (RRS), the ultimate solution for
disaster recovery, companies can restart mission-critical
applications immediately after a primary site disaster, bringing
critical activities back online. Using RRS, administrators have a
cost-effective and flexible solution for business data
synchronization between local and remote volumes that allows IT
personnel to easily create an exact copy of a volume and assign that
copy to an application server for immediate use – making the process
of moving and using data from external sources a straightforward and
efficient process. |
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Remote
Replication - Asynchronous (RRA)
iQstor’s RRA addresses the business continuity requirements of IT
administrators, enabling them to easily replicate data to secondary
sites in a cost-effective and highly efficient manner. Using RRA,
companies can easily extend their storage infrastructures via iSCSI
to setup secondary remote storage locations anywhere in the world,
without distance limitations. Activating iQstor’s RRA data services
available in all iQstor Storage Systems, allows for quick and
efficient transfer of data to off-site locations, whether the
location is around the corner, across the country or around the
globe. |
Database Application Agents (DAA)
By using iQstor’s DAA, companies can be assured that their active
databases are fully protected and transactional integrity is
maintained while iQstor’s MSS takes a point-in-time snapshot. The
combination of DAA and MSS provides the flexibility and reliability
IT administrators demand in order to ensure transactional integrity
of their databases across multiple storage volumes. With iQstor’s
DAA, application databases such as Oracle, SQL and Exchange, can
automatically be paused allowing MSS to instantly take simultaneous
“group snapshots” of all active data volumes. Once the snapshots are
taken, the databases resume normal operation. These snapshots then
can be used to copy the data to tape without having to wait to
backup the databases at “off-peak” hours. |
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