Overview

Virtualize Externally Attached Storage

With Hitachi Universal Volume Manager software, you can consolidate heterogeneous storage from one or many vendors into a single pool. The software eases management with a single, unified view to fully leverage your storage investments.

Universal Volume Manager is a component of Hitachi Basic Operating System V software for Hitachi enterprise storage platforms.

Top Features

• Integrates heterogeneous systems
• Enables deployment of multi-tiered storage
• Integrates lower cost midrange storage
• Creates a common pool of storage using virtualization
• Consolidates and rationalizes storage and storage management points

Top Benefits

• Enables dynamic allocation of capacity and storage quality of service (QoS) to applications as needed
• Enhances data mobility for easy and transparent data migration
• Creates new opportunities based on enhanced capability of existing business continuity software and management tools to external storage devices

Features

• Allows one administrator from a single pane of glass to manage all heterogeneous externally attached storage from Hitachi or third parties
• Enables administrators to establish different storage tiers and costs within a single virtualized pool of storage, based on data access and criticality
• Creates logical views that are not tied to physical assets, which results in a storage architecture that provides the right cost, performance, reliability and availability
• Allows use of the shared storage pool of internal and external storage volumes with storage system-based software or host-based applications for data migration and replication

Benefits

• Strategically aligns your storage infrastructure with business requirements
• Provides cost savings from leveraging existing assets and low cost storage
• Simplifies data replication, migration and retention to help meet compliance demands
• Enables dynamic mobility of data across virtual storage tiers for block, file and content data