Melio Data Center Suite
Intuitive, host based software provides infrastructure provisioning and management functionality
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Infrastructure Management Feature
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Benefit |
- Aggregate heterogeneous SAN storage
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No dependency on specific hardware or storage management tools |
- Centrally configure and assign logical storage volumes to physical or virtual servers
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Flexibly assign storage using Windows Security tools integrated with Active Directory |
- Mirror a volumes to another volume or copy to another location based on user-definable storage policies
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Data protection without any hardware dependencies. Also allows internal server storage to be presented as an iSCSI target, aggregated across servers, and protected using mirroring. |
- Dynamically expand volumes either by adding an additional LUN, or by expanding the exiting LUN on the storage array (for example, thin provisioning)
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Improve storage utilization by eliminating need to “pre-allocate” storage |
- Provides concurrent read-write access to data from multiple physical OR virtual servers over the SAN fabric.
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Eliminate server-storage silos. Shared storage provides improved application availability as there is no need to “fail-over” a storage resource, as all servers can have continuous access to one copy of data. Shared data also allows scale out of many applications such as file and web serving. |
- Performance scales linearly as additional servers are added to the shared storage clusters
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Support large resource pools in virtual environments and enable application scalability |
- Snapshots can be taken of the entire environment of certain files or virtual machines in an active data center. Snapshots can then can be copied to a backup volume or moved onto tape using standard VSS-based backup software
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Flexible back up capability utilizing the file system structure makes it easier to recover applications in the event of hardware failure. Can utilize existing storage and backup infrastructure |
- Extensive performance monitoring at the volume, file, and transaction level
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Identify performance bottlenecks in storage access that can impact data center performance, particularly in virtual data centers. |
- Quality of Service can be set on a per server, per file, or per process basis
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Allocate storage performance to protect critical servers or processes |
- Multiple file shares can be configured to present a single file system to the network from a SAN volume, providing inherent availability and linear performance scalability
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Consolidate file serving, while providing highly available CIFS service integrated into the SAN storage platform using native Windows tools |
- SQL Server database instances can be clustered. Data bases will be quickly moved between instances based on assigned weightings for availability of load balancing
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Consolidate SQL servers onto a single storage and management platform while providing flexible management for large active-active SQL clusters |
- Easily deployed using a next-next-next installer, license key activation of features, and extensive use of native Windows interfaces
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Reduce training and management costs |
