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Hierarchical Storage Management
Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) is becoming increasingly important for maximizing the return on enterprise investments in storage resources. HSM can be a part of, but not the total answer to Information Lifetime Management (ILM). High-performance storage that is being used to store reference or infrequently used data has essentially been hijacked to serve the wrong purpose. Infrequently used data needs to be automatically available, but stored on a cost-effective platform.
- Eliminate the headache of managing storage quotas
- Reclaim 90% of storage capacity, but keep all the data available
- Dramatically shorten backup, restore, and disaster recovery window requirements
- Automate access, regardless of where the data is stored on disk, or tape
- Avoid capital costs: Reduce expenditures on high-performance storage
HSM Scenarios:
Ten's or hundreds of Windows servers use direct-attached or SAN-attached storage that is 75% full, and backups are exceeding the window available. By using an HSM policy of moving 90% of older data to a secondary tier of storage, backup and restoration of the remaining "stub" files is much shorter, file-space is reclaimed, and performance of the file system is enhanced for the current work space.
Research data, media files, and images are accessed by work-groups using a variety of platforms on a high-performance SAN. By using a SAN-aware HSM system combined with a SAN file system that allows a group of heterogeneous platforms to access the same files on the SAN, any platform can recover data that has been migrated off of the high-performance SAN storage to secondary or tertiary tiers of storage.
Regulatory Compliance requirements mandate that data that is migrated be indexed for later retrieval through a search tool. By combining journaling, and indexing capability with an HSM system for migrating data, storage capacity resources are maintained, yet regardless of the source of the data, arbitrary searches can guarantee its discovery and retrieval from secondary storage media at a later date.
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HSM Scenario 1: CaminoSoft's Managed Server HSM
HSM Scenario 2: ADIC's StorNext Management Suite
HSM Scenario 3: Symantec's Enterprise Vault
TechNote: Hierarchical Storage Management
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StorNextFS for multi-OS shared access to SAN storage volumes
SAN-based Multi-Platform HSM
ADIC’s StorNext Management Suite:
- Supports a wide range of OS’s, and is SAN-aware
- SAN file system to enables shared access to SAN storage
- HSM functions run on Solaris and Linux servers
IP-based HSM
CaminoSoft’s Managed Server HSM:
- Scalability from one to many servers
- For Windows 200x
- Only solution for NetwareSupports
HSM and Regulatory Compliance
Symantec’s Enterprise Vault:
- offers HSM capabilities combined with Indexing and Archiving of files and emails for Regulatory Compliance