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ETERNUS DX90/DX400 series, ETERNUS SF AdvancedCopy Manager & VMware Site Recovery Manager - automated failover

September 7, 2010

With "Easy Business Continuity with VMware", Fujitsu offers small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) a cost effective upper midmarket site recovery solution to protect from storage disasters. Our solution combines the consolidation advantages of virtualized machines on PRIMERGY servers with centralized ETERNUS storage on two sites. To achieve real Business Continuity through VMware Site Recovery Manager, failovers from one site to the other can be tested and automated without impacting operation.

Your advantages:

Reliable
a richer set of features compared to not integrated Site Recovery solutions
Affordable
a better standard pricing for synchronous data replication and complete Disaster Recovery automation
Secure
failover testing and execution without impacting business operation
Easy
Seamlessly integration to provide an simple management of Disaster Recovery in virtualized VMware environments

The Building Blocks:

ETERNUS DX disk storage system - reliable and flexible storage systems. Mix and match different drive types to achieve various service levels. Thanks to online RAID Migration, flexible movement of data is supported between the different storage areas within the system.

ETERNUS DX90 supports asynchronous and synchronous storage-based replication through 8 Gbit/s Fibre Channel connections between two sites for easy-to-use business continuity in the entry-level. ETERNUS DX400 series is the perfect fit for mid-range data centers to satisfy higher capacity and performance as well as combined FC and iSCSI remote replication in one system.

ETERNUS SF AdvancedCopy Manager - Fujitsu's Storage Management Software. It controls the variety of high-speed internal and external volume copy functions to guarantee unmatched high availability and business continuity. ETERNUS SF AdvancedCopy Manager integrates ETERNUS DX with VMware Site Recovery Manager to automate the failover of virtual machines in complete Disaster Recovery solutions.

PRIMERGY RX300 S6 with Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 series - PRIMERGY rack server - the ideal server virtualization platform with up to 192 GB memory, redundant components and broad communication interfaces for flexible I/O bandwidth.

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for automated disaster recovery and failover testing

Fujitsu's reliable "EASY Business Continuity with VMware" brings simplicity, security and affordability to data center operation. It ensures easy operation and eliminates human errors by automating the recovery of critical applications. Furthermore, failovers from one site to the other can be tested in a nearly life situation without any impact of productive business. With regulations and certifications like ISO 900x, this is an essential requirement to reduce financial and operational risks.

Real Business Continuity is now no longer a privilege of multinational corporations.

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