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designed to allow administrators to
quickly configure and monitor storage
from a Java™ technology-based Web
browser interface. It is also designed to
allow them to customize and change
settings as well as configure new vol-
umes, define mappings, handle routine
maintenance, and dynamically add new
enclosures and capacity to existing
volumes—without interrupting user
access to data. Failover drivers, per-
formance tuning routines and cluster
support are also standard features of
the DS4000 Storage Manager.
By providing these features and an intu-
itive user interface, the DS4000 Storage
Manager is designed to help reduce the
complexity of storage management and
the amount of time spent managing
storage.
Enhancing storage management
capabilities
The IBM System Storage DS4700
Express has several features designed
to improve data management and stor-
age system performance. Using the
DS4000 Storage Manager software,
administrators can partition the DS4700
Express into as many as 64 virtual
servers. This capability is designed to
help your IT organization strategically
allocate storage capacity to achieve
high utilization of storage space and
low hardware and storage management
costs. Instead of purchasing multiple
RAID controllers with their own dedi-
cated disks and management, you can
attach multiple servers to one central
system—the DS4700 Express. The
DS4700 Express is designed to provide
hardware failover with dual controllers
and common management.
Other DS4700 Express features that
can help enhance data management
and protection include FlashCopy,
Dynamic Volume Expansion,
VolumeCopy and Enhanced Remote
Mirroring.
The FlashCopy feature is designed
to take point-in-time copies of logical
volumes, which may be used for file
restoration, backups, application testing
or data mining.
need to stop operations. Adding these
enclosures can help you bring unused
storage online for a new host group or
an existing volume to provide additional
capacity on demand.
The DS4700 Express is designed to
allow upgrades to higher performing
DS4000 Series systems while keeping
data intact, helping to avoid disruptions
during upgrades. The DS4700 Express
also supports online controller firmware
upgrades to help provide better per-
formance and functionality. Events such
as upgrades to support the latest ver-
sion of DS4000 Storage Manager or to
add optional services such as DS4000
Service Alert or the new DS4000 Alert
Manager can often be executed without
stopping operations.
Centralizing administration through
DS4000 Storage Manager
The System Storage DS4000 Storage
Manager software included with the
DS4700 Express is designed to support
centralized management of local and
networked DS4000 Series systems.
The DS4000 Storage Manager is