Oracle StorageTek Virtual Storager

Oracle StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6

The Oracle corporation announced in the fall of 2012 of StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 — the newest generation of the systems of storage virtualization of data for mainframes. StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 represents the system of storage virtualization of data which provides uniform management of all system and uses mainframe safety features the Solution the politician manages data and resources of storage thanks to application of the automated methodology of management on a basis that simplifies system deployment and optimizes the subsequent transactions with the magnetic tape — data protection, recovery in case of failure and archiving.

"Thanks to performance which grew twice and by 1.8 times of bigger capacity the StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 system is scaled on demand to the level exceeding 640 PB and satisfies to requirements of fast-growing environments of data storage. And all this is in a format of compact and energy efficient DPC that also helps to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)" — emphasized in Oracle.

Having stable capacity of 1200 Mbps, the StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 system is about 20% faster than IBM TS7700 and can carry out several tasks in parallel, without decline in production of a system. Besides, a system supports scaling of capacity more than by 50 times in comparison with IBM TS7720, claim in corporation.

In the whole StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 — this flexible solution which, according to developers, will be suitable for different corporate requirements to data storage system configuration. Among them — a configuration on the basis of high-performance disks or on the basis of high-capacity disks and the physical magnetic tape and also support of the concentrated or distributed data recovery in case of failure.

According to developers, a system differs in the high level of working capacity thanks to the end-to-end architecture and allows to check integrity of data during copying, storage and data recovery. "StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 uses architecture of RAID of threefold parity. It minimizes influence on system performance at failures of disks which can be considerable when using the high-capacity disks applied in other architecture" — explained in corporation.

According to the statement of Oracle, StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 6 differs seven times in smaller total cost of ownership (TSO) at the rate on five years in comparison with the system of the previous generation. At the same time it is completely compatible to all previous StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager systems that gives additional protection of investments.