Disaster Recovery

In the wake of recent floods, hurricanes, and other natural disasters worldwide, disaster recovery is top of mind for many IT departments. Startling statistics tell you why: companies denied access to mission-critical data for as little as 2-3 days will likely not be around next year.

To mitigate that risk, SAN administrators have traditionally resorted to implementing two separate but identical storage systems, mirroring the entire site to guarantee redundancy of their data, and at the same time doubling software licenses, hardware costs and management time. Though these businesses might be well protected, the cost of building, maintaining and growing parallel systems can be exorbitant.

LeftHand provides you with a more flexible, efficient alternative: a single, high availability SAN with built-in disaster recovery features that allow for more granular data protection. You decide exactly what data you need to protect without costly duplication of your primary site SAN.

You manage your entire storage network, within a building or across multiple sites, through a central console. So if one site meets with disaster, you can get your data back online quickly using intuitive failover and failback operations.

• Thin Provisioning for Substantial Cost Savings. SAN/iQ® software provides just-in-time storage allocation through Thin Provisioning, which automatically allocates space for data as it is being written to the disk. You purchase only the storage you need today, and add more as your application data grows.
• Protection Against Large Scale Disasters. LeftHand’s Snapshot and Remote Copy features let you maintain multiple copies of data at different sites with near real-time concurrency. Even in the event of a complete site failure, your business can maintain access to data.
• Remote Copy Wizard for Rapid, Error-Free Recovery. Should you ever need to perform DR operations, the Remote Copy Disaster Recovery Wizard walks you through the failover operations to get the volumes online quickly and correctly in the DR site. Once the primary site comes back online, you can use the Wizard to failback to that original site.

Storage Virtualization

Server virtualization is helping businesses consolidate hardware resources and build out robust, highly available infrastructures. To get the most out of your existing resources and ensure business continuity in the data center, you also need to deploy storage virtualization. Learn how LeftHand’s virtual storage systems deliver continuous access to your data.

Optimize Your SAN for High Availability and DR

For existing LeftHand customers, the SAN/iQ Multi-Site HA/DR Solution Pack provides high availability and fault-tolerant capabilities in multi-site environments. This solution pack automates system tasks and reduces SAN management costs.