centralized management capabilities, mainframe-class media management, and support for high-end tape drives and
robotics, VERITAS NetBackup software is specially geared for the large data center customer.
VERITAS NetBackup software cost-effectively automates backup and recovery for thousands of nodes across multiple
servers, while enabling the enterprise to manage its storage from a single console. With optional add-on modules,
VERITAS NetBackup software provides high-performance hot or cold database backup, as well as archive capabilities
that allow the enterprise to effectively manage data that is rarely accessed yet requires long-term storage. VERITAS
NetBackup software features sophisticated media and device management capable of managing media across the
enterprise from a single location, and enabling sharing of tape robotics hardware with other applications.
Sun StorEdge Instant Image Software
Sun StorEdge Instant Image software is a point-in-time copy facility which runs on a Solaris Operating Environment
application or storage server. Instant Image will enhance the ability of businesses to achieve non-stop business processing
by capturing frequent snapshots of live data for independent read and write purposes. Sun StorEdge Instant Image software
enables point-in-time copies, or shadow volumes, to be created on a Sun storage system. A shadow volume is a replicated
view of data which has been frozen at a specific point in time and is used to enable a secondary application to non-
disruptively access a primary application’s data. Product applications include the following:
Backups - Enable on-line processing to continue while backup processes backup a point-in-time snapshot image of on-
line data
Data warehouse loading - Populate a data warehouse from a snapshot image of on-line data
Application development and testing - Make a snapshot image of production data available as test data for new
applications
Data migration - Use Sun StorEdge Instant Image software to help migrate from one storage platform to another
Sun StorEdge LibMON Software
Sun StorEdge LibMON software is host-based software used to monitor and administer tape libraries via a web browser
enabled by Java technology. Sun StorEdge LibMON software allows for event logging and notification as well as remote
monitoring of library activity.
Sun StorEdge LibMON software will monitor library status and activity through periodic polling of the library, providing
status on the DLT drives, library robotics, inventory, and cartridge slot status. Library status can be monitored from
virtually anywhere on the network.
Library activity and Sun StorEdge LibMON software commands will be logged. Notification of important events can be
sent to defined recipients via e-mail.
Sun StorEdge LibMON software will allow the operator to remotely control certain library features, such as placing the
library online/off-line, downloading new firmware for the library robotics, initiating the actuator self-test, and deleting
libraries.
VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) Software
VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) software provides easy-to-use on-line disk storage management for enterprise
computing environments. Traditional disk storage management is a labor intensive process often requiring machines to be
taken off-line—a major inconvenience to users. Once the system is off-line, the system administrator is faced with the
tedious process of backing up existing data, manually changing system parameters, and reloading the data. In today’s
distributed client/server environments, users are demanding that databases and other resources be available 24 hours a day,
are easy to access and are safe from corruption or loss caused by hardware malfunction.
VxVM software provides system administrators with the tools to dynamically configure disk storage, to perform
administrative tasks while the system is active, and to analyze disk usage.
VxVM software provides on-line administration of disk resources so that the disk subsystems can be managed without
interrupting users or applications. Disk spanning helps eliminate media size limitations and allows load balancing and
extension of file systems and databases. Disk mirroring increases data availability in the case of disk failures. It also
provides a hot relocation algorithm, allowing subdisks to be relocated from a failing disk.
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