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Overview
iQstor’s iQ1000 Storage System is a self-contained storage
system that brings an intelligent and highly-available solution
to address the data needs of small and mid-sized companies.
The iQ1000 combines proven enterprise-level features such
as storage virtualization, snapshots, mirroring, remote replication,
storage provisioning and automated capacity growth with fully
redundant Fibre Channel disk drives. The iQ1000 also delivers
storage scalability, data protection, storage automation and
plug and play simplicity –at a price point that’s
dramatically less than competing Fibre Channel solutions on
the market today.
iQ1000 enables storage administrators to quickly and cost-effectively
optimize its embedded data services intelligence for applications
and network environments in financial, legal and educational
institutions. It delivers investment protection, cost-effectiveness
and reliability for businesses that need a robust Fibre Channel
solution with the availability, manageability, data integrity
and enterprise-level functionality that are required in data
centers today.
Each iQ1000 supports up to fifteen Fibre Channel drives that
provide 2.2TB of storage capacity, and this capacity can by
easily and dynamically scaled to 17.6TB (with 146GB drives)
by attaching an optional J1000 JBOD enclosure to the storage
system. Additionally, as management requirements evolve, administrators
have the option of enabling the on-board enhanced storage
services features.
The iQ1000 is a full-featured 2Gb storage system, providing
maximum flexibility, scalability and reliability for business,
large and small. With all key internal components being hot-swappable
and redundant, the iQ1000 ensures dependable data protection
and delivery to help keep business-critical applications running
smoothly.
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iQstor’s enterprise-level data services
features include:
Storage virtualization
Snapshots
Mirroring
Remote replication
Storage provisioning
Automated capacity growth
iQstor’s iQ1000 offers low initial acquisition cost based
on a pay-as-you-grow model. It is well suited for business-critical
applications that require continuous availability and disaster recovery.
Typical environments include:
Financial services
Life sciences and healthcare
Manufacturing
Oil and gas
Retail
Education
iQstor SAN Manager
From its inception, the iQ1000 has been designed to allow your business
to intelligently manage, virtualize and protect your valuable data.
Starting with iQstor’s SAN Manager, a centralized policy-based
tool that allows you to dynamically configure and manage a SAN,
each iQ1000 comes equipped with embedded data services software
that is easily activated to solve your business requirements. These
data services management software features include:
Volume Manager based Virtualization (VMV)
Using iQstor’s VMV technology allows SMB/SMEs to achieve significantly
improved economies of scale and operational efficiencies, while
delivering superior service to their customers. VMV offers small
to mid-size business (SMB) and small to mid-size enterprises (SME)
many benefits, including the ability to easily consolidate storage
resources, reduce complexity, provision storage on demand, and create
multiple virtual arrays from a single system. With VMV, users can
easily add cost-effective diskless servers or new servers with different
operating systems and different applications in a single consolidated
storage array with no downtime.
With VMV, IT administrators can easily and efficiently allocate
storage based on needs of users and applications with flexible,
intelligent and non-disruptive storage provisioning. They can quickly
consolidate and optimize storage resources to maximize capacities,
allowing effective data storage management with less manpower, reducing
costs. They can add or expand additional storage space by creating
virtual disks in a non-disruptive manner; all bringing workflow
efficiencies and cost savings to today’s business.
The result is enhanced storage utilization, increased reliability
and security and improved administrator efficiencies.
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.
Volume Copy Services (VCS)
iQstor’s Volume Copy Services (VCS)feature provides a comprehensive
replication solution within the iQ1000 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 changed made to the original volume.
VCS, like other iQstor data services features, is storage controller-based
and does not impact the operation of user applications by requiring
host interaction or CPU processing. Once the copy process is complete,
the user can map the copy volume to any host and start utilizing
it immediately.
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 fi le 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.
Remote Replication Services (RRS)
Addressing business continuity requirements for off-site files (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 SMB/SME 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 (both synchronous and asynchronous) that allows IT personnel
to easily create an exact copy of a volume. Administrators can then
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.
Similar to other iQstor data services features, RRS is storage
controller-based and does not impact the operation of user applications.
Once a volume is replicated to a remote site, the user has immediate
access to the remote data for application testing, backup and recovery.
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