Vmirror™
is a family of high-availability SAN appliances designed specifically
for use with Apple's popular Xserve RAID storage line. Used
with Apple's Xserve, Xserve RAID, and optionally, Xsan software,
Vmirror provides high-availability storage solutions with
continuous data protection. Most important, Vmirror provides
instantaneous failover in the event of a component outage
anywhere on the data path from host system to Xserve RAID.
The result: whether you
are supporting multi-user access to a large database or streaming
high-speed video data data access and streaming continue uninterrupted
while host systems make a seamless, transparent shift between
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Customers and
Applications
Vmirror is used to provide uninterruptible access in post-production
and broadcast as well as collaborative IT applications such as business-critical
file servers, web, and database servers. Vmirror video customers include
broadcast and post-production operations at NFL Films, Korean Broadcasting,
Voice of America, and local television stations such as WCJB-TV. IT
customers are diverse, ranging from large printing, publishing and
media companies to scientific research organizations.
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Key Benefits
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Continuous data
access. VMirror is an easy way
to add continuous, high-availability data access, data protection
and enterprise-grade redundancy to your Xserve RAID.
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Higher performance.
Vmirror’s embedded hardware mirroring
increases Xserve RAID performance by 30 to 60 percent with no CPU
overhead.
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Centralized administration.
All administration is centralized on the
Vmirror appliance, regardless of how many host systems are attached.
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Heterogeneous host
support. Vmirror supports up to
16 host systems with no additional software, host agents, or specialized
drivers. Supported host operating systems include OSX, Windows, Linux,
Solaris, HP-UX, and VMware.
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Affordability.
A complete, high-availability SAN solution
is available for about 1/3 the price of non-redundant iSCSI and
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