The complexity of managing external storage systems, poor storage utilization, and the need to support storage and data protection requirements at remote and branch offices are among the biggest storage management challenges companies face today. The impact of server virtualization has introduced a greater focus on storage costs, along with new feature and performance demands. But server virtualization only addresses half the infrastructure problem; IT managers must now find ways to align their storage and server virtualization environments.

Virtualization Operating System

RELvos™, the RELDATA virtualization operating system, empowers the RELDATA 9240i Unified Storage System to consolidate, virtualize, and protect business data. Providing simplified, save-as-you-grow storage management, the RELvos modular architecture lets organizations easily expand both block and file storage capacity to meet user demand, seamlessly consolidate underused storage, and ensure availability of data with replication services. With its 64-bit architecture, RELvos enables RELDATA Unified Storage solutions to provide the performance and throughput of more expensive Fibre Channel alternatives at a much lower total cost of ownership.

RELvos provides storage consolidation of NAS and SAN while virtualizing industry-standard SAS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI storage resources. Not limited to the finite capacity of a dedicated storage system, RELvos provides concurrent, high-speed storage services packaged with comprehensive data management. The software features SAN-level remote mirroring, incremental volume replication, unlimited SAN-level snapshots, and block-based replication for complete data protection.

RELvos is packaged as an embedded solid-state firmware module and comes preinstalled on RELDATA 9240i systems. It does not require any disk space.

An investment in RELDATA’s unified storage solutions enables organizations to seamlessly consolidate storage and address today’s need to align their storage and rapidly growing server virtualization environments.

• Highly efficient SAN storage virtualization engine enables seamless provisioning and management of both integrated storage and external arrays.
• Ethernet-centric storage consolidation significantly reduces infrastructure costs while eliminating change management headaches.
• RELvos offers easy management of fast-growing, mixed file and application/block storage volumes.
• Centralized storage networking management and automation drastically decrease storage administration costs.
• High-performance iSCSI storage access bypasses the file system.
• Online storage system expansion and rapid recovery services radically reduce scheduled application downtime.