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“SANmotion”New: Simple and Painless

Data Migration for Windows Systems

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SANmelody Solves Fundamental Storage IssuesManageProtectControlMigrateProvision

With:Minimum disruption Highest performance Least cost

Compelling Value: Storage Network Services (Utility) + Record Breaking Performance Acceleration (eg, SATA disks), Powerful LAN (iSCSI) and SAN storage, Consolidates, Pools, and Serves Disks (Open ‘Auto –Grow’ Virtual Capacity Provisioning)

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Why SANmelody? Now more reasons…

Hardware Independence, Open choice in disk, servers, and network The cost savings and productivity of a Virtual SAN over Fibre Channel or The cost savings and productivity of a Virtual SAN over Fibre Channel or

LAN/Ethernet with iSCSILAN/Ethernet with iSCSI – Full Featured IP Storage – Full Featured IP Storage The foundation for a flexible Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Storage and Virtual Servers Make Sense! Industry best price performanceIndustry best price performance Speed ups: Acceleration of disk storage I/O performance for

transaction and video/streaming…Enhances SATA… Unique “Open & Automatic Virtual Capacity”Unique “Open & Automatic Virtual Capacity” Affordable Enterprise level Data Protection & Disaster Recovery Lowest-cost platform built to scale in performance and high-end disk Lowest-cost platform built to scale in performance and high-end disk

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Plus New Powerful “SANmotion” Data Migration….

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SANmotion – Windows Data Migration

Migrate and Provision Centralize formatting and volume management Serve and provision “ready-to-use” preformatted volumes

Migrate and Re-purpose One array to another Physical to virtual In or Out of SAN pool

Migrate and Move Move live data disks to where needed, when needed Machine to machine, storage device to storage device

Migrate and Protect Snapshots Host based Mirrors Synchronous Mirrors Asynchrounous Mirrors

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SANmotion – Simple Windows Disk Provisioning

Centralized Simple Windows Storage Administration

Eliminate Many Steps and Serve many Users

Do the work in one place versus on each Windows system

Make your administration more Productive!

Central vs. distributed Windows volume administration Create, manage and map Windows file systems

• Windows Disk Manager used to create FAT or NTFS file systems

• Managed directly by SANmelody

• Map file system volumes to application servers

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SANmotion – Delivering Disk Resources over the SAN

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SANmotion: Easy Access to Pre-existing DataSave time

Mount existing Windows data volumes Consolidate external direct attached storage (DAS) that is currently

connected to individual servers and workstations Access and Use SANmelody provides the ability to manage and immediately utilize

("As is" ) formatted (NTFS/FAT) Windows volumes. Being able to utilize formatted volumes (NTFS or FAT) allows the user the immediate use of pre-existing data that resides on the file system of that volume.

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SANmotion – Simple and Painless Data Movement. Use and access pre-existing Windows Data

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SANmotion: Re-purpose or Move Data Around Rapidly

Windows Disk Data Migration made easy SANmelody presents original volumes with existing data to

owning application servers and workstations Application servers run normal I/O loads to presented virtual

volumes Move the Data Volumes can continue to be used or removed from service

once data has been migrated• Re-purpose for other uses (Virtual Capacity pools that can be

allocated to any server in the IP or SAN network

• Retire from use

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Multiple Approaches to Move Data

Windows data and file systems can be moved

transparently around the SAN

1. Host based Mirroring

2. Synchronous Mirroring

3. Disk-to-Disk Snapshot

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Data Migration (Host Based Mirrors)

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SANmelody Application Support Services

Non-disruptive use of SANmelody features – Power up all your disks!

Easy to apply SANmelody features (performance and function) to volumes. Volume performance is improved by SANmelody’s built-in cache acceleration.

The volume can be delivered (mapped) to Application servers over the FC or IP infrastructure.

Synchronous mirrors can be configured so that the data is mirrored to a SANmelody partner in a high availability configuration. This provides continuous access to the data in case a failure occurs to the data volume.

The Snapshot features can be used to generate a point-in-time snapshot of the data volume. Then other applications can utilize the point-in-time version for offline work.

Asynchronous IP Mirrors can be used to transmit the volume to a remote site for disaster recovery or other remote site uses.

All features can be utilized non-disruptively in real time as the volume is being utilized by the owning application servers.

The administrator has the choice of "in the SAN or out" when required - no lock in, freedom to gain enhancements when needed.