burdening and consuming
expensive transactional storage, or archived offline minimizing the business value of that
information. Although storage tiering solutions are not new to data management, they
have not been broadly adopted due to the limited storage tiering options that provide no
distinct economic or performance advantagesuntil now.
COPANs Enhanced MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disk) platform is purpose-built for persistent
data. Persistent data can now be kept online at a fraction of the operating costs of transac-
tional storage with more reliability and performance than offline media. Keeping data
online enables it to be repurposed for increased business value while saving up to 75%
annually on power & cooling costs in the data center over traditional solutions. In addition,
the scalability and reliability of COPANs Enhanced MAID architecture provides a 48TB per
square foot centralized repository for all your persistent data, estimated to be approximately
80% of the managed data for a typical enterprise class corporation.
Successful and seamless implementation of a storage tiering solution that takes advantage
of the power of MAID requires an enterprise class software application that has the ability to:
Transparently migrate data across multiple storage tiers
Logically classify storage tiers based upon the quality of service (performance, cost,
capacity, reliability)
Intelligently execute polices to promote and demote data to and from storage tiers
based upon customer requirements
Exploit COPANs Enhanced MAID power efficiencies
Implementing a storage tiering solution should seamlessly integrate with existing applications
and processes rather than disrupt current operations. The ideal solution also allows multiple
user options and criteria for proper placement of data on the most appropriate tier of
storage at the appropriate time.
The Solution COPANs Enhanced MAID Platform as a New Tier of Storage
Finally you can have the right file, on the right storage, at the right time, for the right price
by matching the performance and cost characteristics of your data to the performance and
cost characteristics of your storage.
COPAN Systems and Symantec have
partnered to provide a tightly integrated
storage tiering solution utilizing
Symantecs Storage Foundation 5.0
Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) with
COPANs Enhanced MAID storage
architecture. Symantecs Dynamic
Storage Tiering is an industry leading
capability, enabling seamless and
transparent file migration across storage
tiers within the file system. The two
main components within DST that make this possible are a VxFS multi-volume file system
supporting multiple tiers of storage under a single name space, and a policy engine enabling
policy based file placement and migration directly within the multi-volume file system.
COPANs Enhanced MAID platform provides industry leading density, scalability, and reliability
for persistent data by spinning disk drives down when not in use, saving millions of dollars
in power and cooling, and operational costs annually.
The COPAN Revolution 220M & Symantec Dynamic Storage Tiering solution helps you better
manage your persistent data with automated online file migration onto the industrys densest
persistent data repository. You can now place files directly on the appropriate tier of storage,
migrating files to MAID storage based on file age or access frequency, thereby reclaiming
expensive transactional storage capacity. Additionally, better persistent data management
subsequently slows capital expense growth of ongoing Tier 1 storage, providing you the
ability to repurpose your IT budget for other activities.
Partnering with
industry-leading
solutions to unlock
the value of your
long-term data
Solution Brief
COPAN Systems
Symantec Storage
Foundation
Database storage specifications
Single Cabinet
Up to 896 SATA drives
Maximum Spinning Drives at Full Operation
25%
System Capacity
28-448 TB
Package Density
44.8 TB/sq.ft.
Data Protection
RAID 5
Host Interface
Up to eight 2-Gbps Fibre Channel
Maximum Aggregated Throughput
5.2 TB/hour
Power Consumption Standby
705/3,253 watts
Power Consumption Full Operation
1,134/6,034 watts
Power System
N+N redundancy, hot swappable, dual power entry
Three-Tier System Architecture:
Simplifies system management of long-term data.
Lets you easily scale performance with capacity.
Enhances drive reliability through unique disk drive packaging, cooling,
and vibration management.
POWER MANAGED RAID
®
Software:
Extends the service life of disk drives by four times.
Provides RAID protection for all your data.
DISK AEROBICS
®
Software:
Proactively monitors and manages drive health by periodically exercising
all disks and detecting potential drive failures before they occur.
Copies data from a suspect, potentially failing drive to a new healthy
spare drive, avoiding lengthy RAID rebuild times and data loss.
Checks your data at least once every thirty days.
Symantec Enterprise Vault
Symantec Backup Exec
Veritas NetBackup by Symantec
Veritas NetBackup Vault Option by Symantec
COPAN Systems
Enhanced MAID
Technology
For more information
on COPAN Systems,
visit our website at:
www.copansys.com
For more information
on Symantec Storage
Foundation, visit:
www.symantec.com
The Final Result
Align your business data requirements with your business policy needs. The combination
of COPAN Systems Enhanced MAID platform and Symantecs Storage Foundation DST saves
you millions of dollars in capital and operational costs while simplifying your persistent data
management operations. Adding a COPAN MAID platform as a persistent data storage tier
allows applications such as databases and email, to store data for long periods of time.
You benefit by having the ability to apply storage policies to files within your entire storage
infrastructure, which capitalizes on COPANs Enhanced MAID architecture and reduces your
total cost of ownership. Because COPANs Enhanced MAID platform is extremely scalable,
highly reliable, and cost effective, you can now effectively manage different data with
different access needs and business requirements.
COPAN Systems VTL solutions also integrate with the following
Symantec software products:
All specifications subject to change without notice.
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