LenovoEMC Lifeline

LenovoEMC Lifeline 4.0

In April, 2013 the LenovoEMC company announced new generation of the advanced LenovoEMC LifeLine operating system for the network solutions of data storage of Iomega. Owners of the network storage devices StorCenter of the ix and px series can download LifeLine 4.0 OS free of charge. This operating system includes new and advanced means of calculations of corporate scale and security for simple and effective data storage, their sharing and protection in the organizations and the working groups of any size.

New features and advanced opportunities of LenovoEMC LifeLine 4.0

• "Pictures of data"
  • Backup of volumes;
  • Pictures of data (Snapshot) can be taken in write process on the device;
  • Return of volume to its initial status;
  • Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Provider.

• Caching on SSD (pools a cache memory)
  • the Pool of solid state drives is developed for automatic increase in speed of a read and write;
  • Automatically caches often readable and written files on a high-speed array of the drives SSD;
  • For a pool of SSD data protection is performed using RAID.

• Built-in technology of virtualization of IVX (Integrated Virtualization Technology)
• Start of several virtual machines (VM) on Iomega px12-400r and px12-450r disk arrays of rack execution;
• VM with Linux or Windows OS are started on the own virtualized equipment, including network interface cards, disks and graphics adapters;
• Is ideal for the facilitated (simplified) Windows services of Services or the Linux Web Server dedicated server.
• NFS v4
• The improved security and controllability in networks;
• Uniform authentication of Windows Single Sign On on data storage resources.
• Hybrid authentication in AD (Active Directory Hybrid Authentication)
• The mode of local authentication at unavailability of remote domain controller (DC).
• Fault tolerance of AD (Active Directory High Availability)
• Connection to several domain controllers (Domain Controller, DC), access to secondary DC if primary is not active.
• Security of iSCSI
• Mutual authentication of CHAP provides safe connection.
• Disk storage modules with a capacity of 4 Tbytes *
• Possibility of use of the drives HDD of a high-capacity server class (only for px series products).
• Twonky Media Server of version 7
• Media server compatible to DLNA/UPnP;
• Twonky Media Beam from mobile devices.
• Special attention to security aids, developed for data protection

In LifeLine 4.0 special attention is paid to security aids at data access via the Internet therefore online users have access only to the folders (and to files) intended for joint work.