Enterprises tend to use many different data storage resources to manage their data. However, assigning applications to different storage resources and migrating data when application requirements change can be a time-consuming process that lacks efficiency and drives up storage costs.
Enterprises therefore need a solution that enables them to use resources more efficiently and easily achieve different performance levels that can meet all service level requirements in the datacenter. By adding a significant degree of automation to resource allocation and data migration, ESVA automated storage tiering is an ideal solution to help meet these enterprise needs.
Automated storage tiering on ESVA provides an architecture that fully leverages the advantages of different storage media, including SSDs for high-performance data storage, by enabling users to flexibly assign applications to four available tiers distinguished by different drive types and RAID levels.
Data is automatically migrated between tiers based on data usage patterns and user-configured policies to achieve the most efficient distribution of data. With tiering implemented on the sub-volume level, data can be moved in a highly granular fashion.
The performance and data distribution efficiency achieved with automated storage tiering can help users significantly increase ROI. More efficient storage utilization also reduces storage footprint and lowers power consumption. Power consumption is further reduced by the use of SSDs, as these drives consume relatively limited amounts of power. |
