Meet service level requirements by optimizing the utilization of HDDs, SSDs, and RAID levels
By enabling users to flexibly assign applications to four available tiers distinguished by different drive types and RAID levels, automated storage tiering provides an architecture that fully leverages the advantages of different storage media, including SSDs for high-performance data storage. With automated storage tiering, users can greatly optimize storage performance and increase ROI.
As part of automated storage tiering, data is migrated between tiers based on data usage patterns and user-configured policies. With tiering implemented on the sub-volume level, data can be moved in a highly granular fashion. Data migration achieves efficient distribution of data, and ensures that SSDs and other high-performance drives have the necessary storage space to deal with mission-critical applications.
| Features |
Benefits |
| Fine-tuning storage deployment |
By assigning
applications to different tiers consisting of different drive types and RAID
levels, users can easily meet wide variety of service level requirements |
| Optimized storage performance |
SSDs are used
most efficiently in an automated storage tiering architecture to optimize
performance by up to 150% at no additional costs compared to a non-tiered
configuration |
| Enhanced ROI |
Optimized
performance available at no additional costs or lower costs |
| By
precisely meeting service level requirements, storage can be efficiently
utilized |
| Efficient
storage utilization increases lifespan |
| Flexible capacity deployment |
While enjoying
higher performance and reduced costs, capacity can be increased by deploying
high-capacity nearline drives in lower tiers |
| Highly efficient data migration |
Based on data
usage patterns, migration ensures optimized distribution of data in storage
pools |
| Sub-volume
tiering ensures highly granular data movement |
| Scheduling
options ensure data migration can be conducted based on actual user
requirements |
| Ensures
SSDs have the necessary space to serve mission-critical applications |
| Efficient storage utilization |
Doing more with less reduces
storage footprint and lowers power consumption |
| SSDs
feature low power consumption levels |
| Simplified management |
Automated
features help IT managers spend much less time on assigning applications to
storage media and migrating data |
