Databases

Organizations today depend on information more than ever before, with business-critical databases supporting everything from web sites to customer and product information to data warehouses. These growing database volumes must be stored and protected for longer periods of time. Consolidating data onto an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN simplifies management and reduces costs.

Accelerate All Aspects of Leveraging Business Data

Faster daily operations for DBAs
EqualLogic’s intelligent iSCSI arrays are optimized for high I/O environments and applications right out of the box. Virtualization and automatic load balancing of OLTP data result in faster database management, while built-in redundancy, hot swap service, snapshots, and auto-replication eliminate downtime.

Automatic high performance for transactional data
EqualLogic offers one of the highest I/O performance results for database applications as validated by independent tests. Maximum performance is automatic from the start – EqualLogic storage continuously self-optimizes as data changes and storage is expanded.

Non-disruptive database expansion
As your database grows, PS Series arrays harness their aggregate resources to evenly load balance data requests, additional capacity, network activity, and cache. When volumes and logs grow, EqualLogic’s volumes grow online. In addition to instant volume expansion, more physical storage can be non-disruptively added to your SAN, increasing capacity and performance with EqualLogic’s online load balancing. With EqualLogic advanced thin provisioning, database volumes can be preset to a specific size at volume creation. Physical storage is then automatically allocated from the free storage pool as the database grows in size. The benefits are simpler management of database volumes, more efficient use of physical storage resources, and the realization of seamless “buy as you grow” storage purchasing.

Database backup and recovery
With EqualLogic’s built-in snapshot capabilities, clean snapshots of databases and logs can be taken instantly and automatically. Any size environment, as well as multi-database deployments, can be instantly reset to a previous snapshot to resume database operations from a clean starting point; users don’t wait for data to be physically moved or copied. Snapshots can also be mounted as recovery storage groups for easy database and log recovery. EqualLogic’s built in auto-replication capability enables internally consistent remote copies of databases and SAN boot disks. EqualLogic is fully certified and compatible with leading backup and disaster recovery solutions including applications from Asigra, CommVault Systems, Computer Associates, EMC/Legato, FilesX, Microsoft (including DPM), Mimosa, Spectra Logic, Sonasoft, Symantec, and TimeSpring.

Customized service levels for individual databases
EqualLogic's tiering and pooling capabilities enable automatic or customized tiering of databases and logs. This enables DBAs to assign different storage tiers to offer varying levels of storage performance to multiple databases. If service level requirements change for a database, DBAs can easily move database volumes, as well as other application data, to the appropriate service tier without downtime or disruption.

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Online optimization of service level and costs
EqualLogic's tiering and pooling capabilities provide automatic or administrator-directed tiering of mail stores and logs. This enables messaging administrators to assign different storage tiers to offer varying levels of storage performance to users. When service level requirements change, messaging administrators can easily move e-mail volumes, as well as other application data, to a new service tier without downtime or disruption.